I'm here to teach you a little something about composting, because I have never met a location I can't compost in and I'm sure if you really tried, you wouldn't meet such a location either.
Composting is so incredibly basic that I'm surprised it's not more enforced. The rules are simple; if you have a bit of garden/bush/grass space, you can compost.
My first apartment was more of a hassle to compost from than other spaces I've lived in as it required me to actually leave the house and go downstairs. I had to sneak into the bushes while the neighbours weren't looking and deposit my little bucket of scraps into the garden and cover it with leaves. Every time I did it I would feel like a naughty little composting fairy, offering my smelly gifts to mother nature.
My second apartment = complete composting breeze. Although I would have to step over my bed with the scraps to get to the window, this was but a small obstacle to gain access to the mini forest of trees below. You name it - chicken scraps, orange peels, egg shells, whatever it was, if it wasn't going in my mouth it was going out the bedroom window and back to nature.
In my current dwelling, it is probably the most convenient composting process yet. If it isn't straight out the kitchen window (which I must admit, I do have trouble aiming from) it is straight off the kitchen balcony and into the little garden space which no one can access. Luckily because it's pretty much inaccessible without a climb, no one will ever know about my great organic deeds, which I dare say some may disapprove of. For instance, I was a little bit naughty around Christmas when I chucked all the stinky prawn heads/shells and squid guts over there. It was fine at the time but the next day it kind of made the whole outside area stink. BUT, as a considerate and good composting sort, I climbed into that composting haven and buried those naughty, stinky seafood scraps with dirt, allowing nature to absorb the scrappy juices through the soil. Problem solved.
Sometimes, when the scraps are too light, liquified or sloppy to be thrown from the kitchen level, the lucky things get to go on a field trip upstairs to my bedroom balcony where they get to base jump into the garden from even higher.
So you see, composting is easy and wonderful and anyone who cares enough about reducing their carbon print on this already environmentally unfriendly world, can join in on the fun! Although I'm guessing that's not you, but thanks for reading none the less.
But you know, not only does the food get to naturally break down and biodegrade its arse back into nature, but often I get little thank yous from birds and cats for giving them little snacks to enjoy.
OK OK, so what I do isn't actually "composting" per se, because composting is more about using decayed organic material as a plant fertilizer (which I'm sure it's doing anyway) but what I am doing is healthy for the environment and I'm heaps more popular with it now.
Hippies UNITE!
