The Benefits of Composting

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Even if you don’t have a green thumb, nothing will make your summer garden more fruitful than some nutritious soil. The benefits of composting not only help your plants and vegetables grow but also help minimize the waste you produce in your household.

Fertilizer or nutrient-rich soil, from a hardware store or garden shop, often times is expensive and actually has fewer nutrients than natural compost provides. When eating produce and any food that spoils, we end up producing waste. The peelings from a carrot, the core of an apple, egg shells: these are all items that many put in the trash but are full of nutrients to create rich soil.

Composting is an easy way to impact the environment as an individual, by producing less waste. If you are not attracted to the idea of stirring or using your own compost there are plenty of no waste alternatives. Many towns have co-ops or community gardens that you can donate your food waste too. The co-op will use your compost and you still get to reduce the amount of trash that your household creates. Some larger cities are even beginning compost pick up services, similar to recycling and trash pick up, to make composting as convenient as possible for you!