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Winter Composting Tips: Indoors and Outdoors!

December 23, 2015

Winter composting compost tips by The Compostess Rebecca Louie

Don’t let Old Man Winter put the freeze on your composting efforts! He’ll try his best to thwart you by turning your piles to ice, slowing down microbes, shooing away composting crawlies, and stealing away the sun. Then there’s that whole issue of his powerful temptresses: [Read more...]

Art of “Waste” — The New York Compost Box Project

November 18, 2015

New York Compost Box Debbie Ullman Composting New York City the compostess

As we increasingly give a scrap about how much we waste and how we can reclaim it, trash has become a serious source of inspiration for artists and innovators. There’s been a boom in crafty upcyclers who transform landfill-bound items into elegant items like jewelry made from electrical [Read more...]

Video: Compost – To Turn or Not To Turn?

October 24, 2015

It’s the burning question that keeps compost lovers with heaping piles up at night: “Do I turn that sucker or what??” Turning a compost pile is an absolutely optional maintenance task. Some folks prefer to spend the time and effort of turning a pile on tossing back a [Read more...]

Goats, Chickens and Compost: Volunteering with Earth Matter on Governors Island

September 15, 2015

Earth Matter Chickens on Governors Island eat food scraps

I came for the chickens, bunnies, and baby goats. I stayed for the thirty-two thousand pounds of food scraps. The Earth Matter Compost Learning Center on Governors Island is an eco-educational oasis in the middle of New York Harbor. Through animal care, compost windrow builds, and now the [Read more...]

How To Make DIY Bokashi Flakes

April 22, 2015

For the longest time, I thought worms were the love of my compost life. Cute, easy to care for, discreet when tucked in a cabinet or under the sink… But recently, I’ve wiggled away from Red Wiggler earthworms (mostly Friend Zone now) to embrace my Bokashi Buckets — airtight containers [Read more...]

Compostalypse Now! Composting with Coppola at Blancaneaux Lodge, Belize

April 21, 2015

Francis Ford Coppola's Blancaneaux Lodge Compost Piles Belize

We’ve all been transfixed by Francis Ford Coppola’s awesome oeuvre of films, but did you know his genius also extends to eco-friendly jungle hideaways? Blancaneaux Lodge, tucked deep in a corner of Belize’s Maya Mountains, is one of three sumptuous properties in Central America owned by [Read more...]

6 Easy Ways to Eat Greener

February 14, 2015

Easy ways to eat green on The Compostess Blog

If you’re like me, you consume delicious morsels of food the way some people (also me) binge on baby animal videos — joyfully and without abandon. However, if you’re also like me, the more your learn about how our eating habits impact good, glorious Ma Earth, each bite becomes a [Read more...]