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Does anyone have a Kitchen composter recommendation?
I just bought an outdoor composting bin and am pretty excited to start composting. However, I need to locate it in a sunny area in my yard and that area is far from my patio door. I’d like to have something in the kitchen so that I can collect stuff and only have to trek outside once a week.Garbage Strike = More Composting
Its been about a week now since the garbage strike has started in Vancouver, but instead of there being rats about and huge pile-ups of garbage (although there may be some of that too in this city of 4million people) there is a huge increase in the number of compost bins being purchased and used. One can only imagine that these will be used after the strike has finished and garbage is once again being picked up. There are a lot of gardens around Vancouver: people love to make their yards look better than their neighbours!
Free Used Coffee Grounds from Starbucks for your Garden
I'm not sure why you'd have to pay for used coffee grounds, but Starbucks is giving away their coffee grounds for free, to be used in your garden. I say, just use your own and avoid that place altogether, but here's some stuff from their website: Coffee grounds can provide a valuable source of nutrition for your garden if used properly. The proper amount to be used depends on the condition of the soil and, more specifically, what you are growing in your garden.S.F. OKs toughest recycling law in U.S.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/10/MN09183NV8.DTL ((I took out some local, political details, and composting tips )) Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine. The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 Tuesday to approve Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposal for the most comprehensive mandatory composting and recycling law in the country. It's an aggressive push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and have the city sending nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020.Greening Your Home - the Basics Part 2: Kitchen
Although one can certainly turn their not-so-green kitchen into an eco-friendly one via renovation, that is not always an option for the majority of people. So, what easy, inexpensive or free things can you do to make your kitchen more eco-friendly? Here's my short-list of what you can do to immediately see a difference and make a change:
1) Use biodegradable or compost-able kitchen bags - see the example of one of the many brands out there, in the list at the bottom.
You've enjoyed your daily cup. But can coffee grounds go in the ground?
You've enjoyed your daily cup. But can coffee grounds go in the ground? http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/113/story/381488.html The Press of Atlantic City Published: Friday, January 23, 2009 Question: I have access to large amounts of coffee grounds.Organic Gardening Tips
Looking for tips on specific types of vegetables or herbs? Get vegetable gardening and herb gardening tips here. Or read about 11 useful organic gardening products for your home garden.recycling round up 9
dont toss your grapefruit rinds onto the compost pile. they make great traps for cutworms. just scrape out the insides and set the rinds around the garden in the evening.recycling round up 8
grow annual vines on trellises made from biodegradeable cotton string or uncoated twine/jute. wheather you weave it between stakes or fashion a teepee, at the end of the season you can just cut down the entire thing and throw it in to your compost pile.recycling round 4
got so many coffee cans you dont kno what to do with all of them? well hide them behind your shrubs so when you go to remove dead blossoms you can throw them in that can and save them to mekr your own compost pile .
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