One Small Change November

THE EARTH MACHINE

I am finally going to do it! I should have been doing this for a long time now. With 3 teenage boys in the house, we create a lot of kitchen waste. We no longer need to throw those scraps in the landfill. We are starting to compost.

This is a picture of the kitchen bucket that came with the composter. There are pretty clear directions on the side of what can and cant go into the bucket. I go by the saying, "If it came out of the dirt, it can go back in." The one exception to this rule - in my eyes - are egg shells.

This is the liner we are using in our bucket. I found the instructions from our Canadian friends in Ottawa who have started curbside composting!! Awesome! I threw a banana in here so you all could kind of see the size of the liner.

I went to the web site for this composter. They suggested a 1 to 25 ratio. Holy Moly. That 25 part is A LOT of leaves and grass clippings. We do not collect our grass clippings. I never heard of this until I moved to Suburbia. We mowed our lawns and left the grass clippings on the lawn where I grew up. So I am going to try to stock pile some leaves now to help the "cooking" process over the winter and early spring.

If you have a Small Change for the month of November, please share with the rest of us.