From our own Department of Parks and Recreation: Intro to Urban Composting April 14th through May 12th Wednesdays 6:30pm – 8:30pm Columbia Heights Recreation Center Master Composter Kaitlin Rienzo- Stack will lead a five week course on the wonders of “black gold,” with a special focus on urban composting issues. Learn how to turn kitchen […]
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I do a lot of foraging for compost ingredients. But sometimes compost comes from unexpected places. Our friend Timothy and her housemates had been making compost in a Rubbermaid trash can using all their kitchen scraps. When it came time for them to move, Timothy asked me if I wanted their compost-in-progress. Yesterday, while they […]
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This weekend I recorded the highest temperature ever in our compost pile here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House: 150 degrees. I love digging into the pile to deposit kitchen scraps, seeing steam wafting out of the debris, feeling a blast of heat. That’s bacteria at work, thermophiles who […]
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