Alright, family. I’ve got a project that’s been bumbling around in my brain, and I think you are the best five people I know who can help me with it.
I want to start composting.
Now, I know, I know. I should be composting already. I should have been composting ever since leaving the house where composting happens constantly. Yes, it’s probably because I never had to take the compost out that I don’t compost now. I’m sure of it, actually!!
But, some things are just tougher than they need to be in good ole NYC, and composting definitely goes in that category. Sarah and I tried it for about a month, but then we heard tell of a mouse in our building, and we weren’t sure if the two things were related. So when Lindsy mentioned it in passing, I thought maybe it was time to revisit. Also, summer is coming which means cooking with lots more fresh food is coming which means creating lots more food waste is coming, and I’d like to curb that as much as possible.
Believe it or not, composting isn’t absolutely out of the question in this fine metropolis of mine. The Lower East Side Ecology Center mans a stand at the farmers market on Wednesdays where I can drop it. I think there’s even some kind of a compost co-op in my neighborhood that I looked into at one point, but — being a co-op — it required me to do something I couldn’t have done (like, work on Saturdays).
But first things first. Provided I can figure out a place to take it, I’d love to hear any ideas you guys have about the cleanest ways I could keep a compost bucket in my teeny tiny kitchen, assuming I can empty it once a week at most.
So, I turn to you! Do you compost? What works? What doesn’t?
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