Friday, February 20, 2009

NYT Article: Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms

Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms
The New York Times

(Sloat Garden Center carries the composter cited in this article. Read on....)

ON a recent Saturday afternoon, Stephanie Stern and her husband poured 1,000 wriggling red worms from a brown bag into a plastic bin outside their bathroom, looked down and hoped for the best.

If things went well, the worms, already burrowing into their bed of shredded newspapers, would soon be eating three pounds of food scraps a week, reducing the couple’s trash and producing fertilizer for their plants.

Read the rest of the article here

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