Food safety is a foundational concern in the world today.  Is our food safe?  With food that is trucked from thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands of miles away—it is a difficult question to answer.  Can we trust the USDA organic label as being an angelic benefactor of purity?  What about all the food that doesn’t have that label, are they claiming its inorganic?  Luckily one thing we do know is that we can cast our food vote by growing our own food and generating good old fashioned organic compost.

Organic Compost—Natures Miracle

Organic compost is almost like saying organic water, because it is all part of a natural, organic system, but it is just part of our vocabulary nowadays.  Compost is simply anything that is decaying down.  This break down process is caused by aerobic bacteria doing what the best teachers do; breaking down complicated things into simpler things.  The broken down matter creates fertility, stimulating the web of life.

Do the Compost!

We all generate waste, but if we compost we can replace the word “waste” with “recycle,” a word that will make the environment and your garden smile.  A smiling garden full of color and beauty means health to the person who takes care of it.  You provide compost and care; the garden provides health.  Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine.”  When you do the environmental composting dance, you are turning liabilities into assets.  Everybody prefers assets.

The Steps In The Compost Dance

By adding a few extra steps to your daily culinary dance, you are becoming an environmental superhero.

Step 1:  Capture your food scraps in a compost pail

Step 2:  When your organic compost pail fills up transfer it to a home composter.

Step 3:  Reap the fertile benefits of organic compost

Organic vs Inorganic

True organic compost will be free of any volatile baddies that will harm you and the worms.  There is drastic heat-up in the composting process, but it is not known whether or not inorganic chemicals are cooked off—better safe than sorry:  keep ‘em out.

So Many Ways, So Little Time

There are tons of ways to generate organic compost:

• Classic Composting:  This process using aerobic organisms to break down your food scraps or other organic assets like leaves, into valuable organic compost.  You can be the agricultural ox and provide the muscle in the turning of a compost pile or you can use the nifty tumbling composters that are available today.

• Red Worm Composting:  put your worms to work on your leftovers.  Your worms will turn your waste into a worm castings; a nutrient rich fertilizer that levels up your gardens potential.

• Bokashi Composting:  The opposite of classic composting.  This Japanese system uses fermentation to break down kitchen compost.  Oriental influenced organic compost.

• Black Soldier Fly Larvae Composting:  Put the larvae of the black soldier fly on compost duty.  This is a great composting system for the urban chicken keeper.

• Liability to Asset composting:  Depending on your level of commitment, space, and ambition, you can turn other people’s scraps, leaves, or other liabilities that would normally have gone to the landfill, into organic compost to benefit your garden (or maybe you are an agrarian philanthropist and want to make compost and give it away).

The next time you are sitting down to a meal you can smile when you have leftovers because they are going to be recycled one way or another:  leftover casserole or organic compost.  I say compost your heart out!

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