For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to recycle (my mother must've been one of the original recyclers...she used to reuse aluminum foil like crazy!!) And I think I was one of the first 1,000 contributors to WWF. Then when I had children, I probably drove their father to distraction with my efforts to make the world a little less formidible, poluted, for our kids by paying my trash collector to recycle. I've conserved water by putting bottles filled with water into the tank of all our toilets. I rode my bicycle when it wasn't fashionable, ate organic, and used biodegradable soaps. Guess I could've been called a granola head.
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I know, I know...it's December, and who thinks about composting in this weather? I guess my husband and I do, since we continue to produce compostible materials in our kitchen daily. It seems as if I fill a kitchen bin with scraps from our meals, with a little laundry drier fuzz thrown in for good measure, every single day. The thought of throwing it all into the trash is so unpleasant. And in Colorado you find yourself enjoying 50-60 degree days sprinkled in throughout the winter. So thinking about and even using our compost tumbler isn't so big a stretch. See, we love the idea of living “Green”, and doing our part to help Mother Earth. There are lots of ways that one can improve Mother's chances of surviving. Some methods are pretty tough to do. I'd love to have the money to put up a wind driven generator system, and maybe some solar panels. I'd like to buy one of those Smart cars, or an electric car to cut down on emissions. These would be in addition to my scooter and my bicycle that get me around. But we don't have the money right now. We have to choose a less expensive way for the time being. And so, one of the ways we do our part for Mother Earth is by reducing the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. We compost! But wait, not only do we reduce the trash put into the system, but we also reduce water consumption by not running the faucet with a garbage disposal unit. Instead of running our kitchen waste down the drain, we put it into our tumbling composter. Wait again! Reductions in waste and water consumption, AND we get 100% organic soil enhancer (ie. Fertilizer), no chemicals added, to boost the production of our flower and vegetable gardens. It really hasn't taken very long for our kitchen scraps to become good quality organic compost. We now have our tumbler full of scraps, and a mound of compost that is setting until Spring.
Of course, it wasn't always such a slick operation. When we first started composting, we weren't having a whole lot of luck. You might have tried and been frustrated with composting, too. It can be a bit tricky trying to get the right mix of ‘greens’ and ‘browns’ so that they will work together to break down into usable compost. Even the experienced composter can run into this problem now and again unless they've gone to a lot of effort planning and storing their materials. But if you use a packet of BiOWiSH™ Compost Boost you won’t be worried about your compost materials doing what it's supposed to any more. Within a day you’ll feel the heat coming off the compost tumber, bin or pile as the organisms work to break down the materials from your kitchen. Drop on by http://www.bestcomposters.com/page/398177366 and order BiOWiSH™ Compost Boost and even cool weather won’t keep you from harvesting 100% organic compost ready to enhance your garden this Spring.

Have any of you out there ever had Septic Tank issues? You know what I mean when I say “Eeeeewwww!” If you don’t have plumbing that’ll take your bathroom waste to a commercial sewage treatment plant, then you may have experienced a septic tank back up, or a leaching field not doing it’s job. Talk about a mess! And then there’s the expense of having to call someone out to pump out the whole system. But if you believe that it’s best to be proactive in your approach to problems of this sort, then you’ll find that BiOWiSH™ Septic Tank Aid is the easiest and most cost effective regular maintenance you can perform for your septic tank system, providing years of hassle free service. When I use BiOWiSH™ Septic Tank Aid, I’m using the same technology developed for use in commercial sewerage treatment plants. Enzyme Technology, designed to consume the organic waste it encounters and remove it and the odors that are associated with organic waste. Really! And if you’re like my brother and not proactive, then you might be faced with a problem of a stalled or struggling system that is just waiting to take over! BiOWiSH™ Septic Tank Aid is powerful enough to restore performance in most systems that have stalled or are struggling under heavy loading (pardon the pun!). But of course it’s best to treat your system every 3 months as a proactive approach, so you can make sure that you won’t have those fat deposits and sludge building up in your tanks and leach field. Over time, BiOWiSH™ Septic Tank Aid will clear the leach field of deposits that have built up and that are restricting your septic tank’s proper drainage. Problem solved! Would that all of life's problems could be solved with such ease!

Today is the first day...

I woke up this morning thinking about the composting class that I was to attend today and also about my first introduction to composting.
My grandparents had what was called a 'cottage' on Point Pelee in Ontario, Canada and they gardened. I don't know how the soil was there, but they had a compost pile that contained all their garden and kitchen refuse. It was long ago, I was little, and so I don't know how they worked it or whether it was even successful! I learned today that one can be a 'failed composter'! And I guess I fit into that category, because I've tried composting in the past with little success....clumps of moldy leaves, undigested grass clippings. I guess eventually it'll turn out ok, but it's not the pretty (ok, relative!) soil additive that I saw first-hand today. So, I'm off! I now have a garden compost tumbler and I know how to use it! I know about the 5 healthy compost pile characteristics: Size, Surface Area, Composition, Water and Air. The air and water aren't too intimidating. I guess where I've gone wrong in the past was in the composition, or makeup of what I was putting into my pile. 25-30 parts carbon (browns) to 1 part nitrogen (greens). And it did amaze me what can constitute browns! Dryer Lint?!?! Yep, among lots of other things. I'm hoping for a usable soil conditioner by October. Stay tuned!