Composting

Hint of the Day: Try composting!  My mom helped me get this started a few weeks ago when they were helping with our yard work.  We took an old recycling bin that was just sitting around our garage, added some old leaves from last fall, a little dirt, some water, and the veggie scraps and coffee grounds from that weekend.  Over the past few weeks I've been adding to it every couple days.  I was really worried about how I would collect everything without my kitchen stinking, but it really hasn't been an issue.  I have a large cottage cheese container (empty) sitting on my counter and I toss in the apple cores, salad left-overs from lunch, egg shells, etc. each day.  Every other day it fills up and I run it out to my bin.  By late fall/next spring I'll have all kinds of healthy, black dirt!  And it makes me feel really good knowing how much trash I've kept out of the land fill.  We hardly filled a trash bag this week!