The Nest

Compost made easy!

Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:06 AM

This blog post is for everyone, but most especially for Madame Morgan because of her composting post (and she might be the most interested in this).  I have been searching for ways I can do my part in saving the environment.  I get that my actions may not really be saving anything, but I am definitely doing my part to keep things from getting worse.  My husband is really supportive, and although he makes fun of me when I do some of my "green" things, he is participating just as much in conserving water, reusing water, recycling, and reusing plastic bottles and bags.  He saw a special on the History Channel on ways to counteract Global Warming, and he recorded it for me.  That's when I discovered this item:

http://www.naturemill.com/index.html

Chris and I decided we are saving up the $299 it costs to purchase this composter.  No worms needed.  I don't have to worry about my dogs digging through the old food while it composts in my backyard.  Yes, there are a million other things I'd love to have for $299, but this makes our lives easier (less trash, plus amazing soil for our vegetable garden) AND helps the environment, saving our neighborhood pounds and pounds of trash each month.  Just looking at our trash from yesterday, we threw away grapes that were too mushy, a banana peel, chicken fat, the side edges of snap green beans, cucumber skins, and an apple core.  All that could have been composted. 

I hate to be preachy, but when we are spending $300+ on TVs, game systems, jeans, purebred dogs, jewelry, or laptops, it makes sense that we could also squeeze in an environmentally-conscious item as well.