Making Dirt BY ANDREW SPRUNG
We throw our veggie garbage in a magic transformation bin (that is, a giant, well-sealed box where so-called compost sits and cooks). In go carrot and potato peel, onion skin and cold oatmeal, apple cores and melon rinds and other scraps of various kinds, mixed with dried up leaves and grass. All in one big tangled mass that sits for weeks and settles down, softens, crumbles, and turns brown. We dump it out and spread it round our little garden, row by row where it helps make new veggies grow. Nothing dies, but all things change: Compost, like life itself, is strange.
FALL 2024 | GREEN C HILD 71