Storage Tips: Compost

 

Composting. It’s great, right? Use something from the earth, allow it to return to it and start the whole cycle all over again. Hakuna Matata. That’s all fine and good when, say, you can have a big ol’ heaping pile of rotting foodstuffs out behind the ol’ barn or something, but it is not quite so pleasurable to do when your apartment is the size of an english muffin. Or is prone to roaches. Or both.

 

But! Don’t despair. If you want to compost here’s a quick and easy tip from our Core Group Member Laura Scheck! As you create kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, etc…. (here’s a very detailed list of what can and can’t be composted) place them in ziplock bags or another suitable airtight container in your freezer. This will keep them from stinking up your place or drawing bugs, and that way you can accumulate a week’s worth of scraps at a time.

 

Then, simply drop your compostable goods at one of the many compost sites within participating community gardens, or at any Grow NYC Greenmarket location— one of which is at Grand Army Plaza every Saturday from 8-3:30.

 

*Note: The writer of this email is in no way positing herself, nor this post to be, in fact, erudite. She was merely searching for a catchy title.