Today Marc and I headed down to the local Patagonia store for a workshop on urban composting. Right now we don't really have a garden that needs compost but Marc and I have dreams of moving to a place where we will actually have a yard and will thus be able to compost and grow food to eat in our garden. And we figured it's never too early to start learning. Plus we really like the idea that the scraps of food that we would normally throw in to the garbage can will now end up in our compost and go towards growing us food instead of into the local landfill.
One of the highlights of the workshop was the 4 foot long puppet worm that one of the master composter volunteers had on his arm during the beginning of the presentation. He even called worm poop - craptonite (like Superman's kryptonite). This same presenter was a big fan of passive composting and you could tell that he loved his worms compared to the female presenter who was passionate about being an agressive hot composter. It was pretty entertaining.
worm harvesting - castings on the left and worms on the right
We had a lot of fun learning about traditional hot composting but what we found most exciting was the worm composting. Especially since we don't really have too much organic waste to get rid of at this stage of our lives. When we have a yard I might go for the traditional composting along with the worms but for now with our balcony gardening the worm composting is probably our best bet. So now we have to decide when to set up our worms and what we will plant first to receive the benefits.
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