Friday, August 21, 2009

Composting


For a while now I have wanted to start composting. I have been researching different methods. I have narrowed it down to 2. Worm composting and lasagna composting.
For worm composting you need to get a cardboard box, dirt, and worms. Then you put your table scraps, chopped finely, in a thin layer in the worm home. They should live contendedly so long as you don't make their home to acidic. The positive part of worm composting is that you can put meat and other non-traditional composting foods in the bin. The drawbacks are that you may potentially end up with smelly trash and 100 dead worms. Plus I have to find a place in cleveland that sells worms.
The other most appealling type of composting is called Lasagna Composting. The Cleveland Clinic has partnered with several businesses and is now composting all of their hospital kitchen scraps. They are using lasagna composting. Here is a link from their page http://ccetompkins.org/compost/Lasagna%20Composting.pdf . The positive part of this composting is that I will not need any additional materials *no potentially dead worms* and I can do it in small increments *no 'saving' my food materials until I have collected enough*.
I am going to begin my attempt at lasagna composting today or tomorrow. It's raining right now so I will have to wait and see how the weather goes.

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