Household Waste Stream

Where does all of our waste go? Mostly to compost...

Composted by Mark in his bins:

·        Branches and tree trimmings

·        Christmas tree branches (we burn the trunk as the “Yule Log”)

·        Leaves

·        Pompost

·        Rotten food

·        Trimmings from veg.

·        Paper towels for cleaning up cat barf

·        Clothing, cotton and wool

·        Cardboard

·        “compostable” plates, glasses, silverware, as well as all food soiled paper bags and napkins

·        Newspapers

Composted in the Gardens:

·        Grass trimmings

·        Leaves

·        bunny and chicken poop

Recycled through the chickens:

·        garden trimmings, like oversized kale leaves

·        household veg trimmings

·        stale bread ends and old muffins that have not molded

·        old beans and tofu

·        thousands of bugs

Recycled curbside or otherwise:

·        Glass

·        Plastics with appropriate numbers

·        Cans

·        Newspapers

·        Milk containers

·        Films and plastic wraps, plastic bags

·        Batteries, lightbulbs

·        Occasional packing peanuts and bubble wrap

Reused:

·        Cloth napkins and real plates, even for parties

·        Canning jars—for everything!

·        Clothes  into  cleaning rags

·        Plastic bags are washed and reused

·        Plastic containers are washed and reused, or brought to the co-op for others to reuse

·        Magazines have several readers, then the Senior Center

Yet another recipe for kale….

It’s been a good few weeks for the kale plants—the leaves are bigger than my head.  We’ve had Kale and tomato soup, kale and tofu with rice, greens over toast, and this one. I like to say cous cous over and over again while it is steeping.

Kale with Cous-Cous            From Recipes from the Root Cellar

1.5 cups of cous cous, cooked

One lemon, zested and juiced mixed with about .25 cup of olive oil and a teaspoon of mustard, whisked together and stirred into the grain.

About six cups of chopped kale, quickly cooked and cooled, then well drained. I gave it a good hand squeeze.

.25 cup of crumbled feta, some olives

Mix it all together and eat still warm of cool for lunch the next day.