RE: garden

[Guest guest]

Sue, you wrote that you have a garden, do you make your own compost? If yes, do

you keep lid closed on the compost bin?

 

For some reason I am getting mold growing. Do you know if it’s ok, or can I do

anything to stop mold from growing? With opened lid it’s a little better.

 

 

Sue Aberle <sue wrote:

And children grow up with not a clue as to where their food comes from.

I've had young women tell me that they won't eat anything (vegetable-wise)

that does not come shrink-wrapped in plastic from the supermarket. Could

you imagine how " grossed out " these people would be if they had a clue what

kind of environment their carrots were grown in, or what part of a cow their

milk came from??

 

I have to reiterate my " better safe than sorry " recommendation on B-12. I'd

rather take an occasional supplement than to take a chance on irreversible

neurological damage, which is the end-result of a B-12 deficiency. And I do

have an organic garden to eat from, so I know that I'm getting some

incidental B-12 via my organically-grown produce. (Another " gross-out " for

the city folks - a freshly-harvested piece of organic fruit or vegetable

will have teeny, tiny insects on it. When we eat the fruit directly from

the vine, guess what...we're eating those teeny, tiny insects! Now, another

person in the local (cooked) vegan community took my comments in that regard

and quoted me as advocating " eating bugs " . (He's a big-city-boy, has never,

ever had a backyard garden, thinks everything comes in a package from the

store.) Not really, but if you take those same freshly-picked berries and

let them sit in a bowl in the kitchen for 15 minutes, you will find them

covered with all kinds of little, tiny flying critters. They didn't come

from nowhere.)

 

Sue

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi, Viola -

 

Yes, I do make my own compost, but I'm not an expert at it, and it doesn't

always come out as I'd prefer. I try to keep the lid closed, but sometimes

I don't put it back on, or it blows off in the wind (and ends up in the

neighbor's yard). You know how that goes! I also have trouble with mold in

some things. I supposed that one really should put their food scraps

(uncooked) into more of a worm bin as opposed to a compost bin, and stick to

the grass clippings and leaves for the actual compost bin. A couple of good

resources for information would be Seattle Tilth and the master composter

group through the WSU Extension Service. Someday I'm going to take the

master composter class so I can learn to do it right!

 

The best way that I've found to avoid the mold problem is to feed it through

an animal of some kind first. Chickens and goats are great for that. I was

surprised when our goat actually ate a banana peel - I'd been composting

those, but the goat greeted me as I was heading to the compost pile, and

helped herself to the banana peels in the bowl I was carrying, she " nummied "

those right down. But if one doesn't have those, then I suppose we need to

use the worms. (I don't have the goats or chickens at this stage in my

life, but hopefully in the future I will again. I love animals. I just

won't eat them this time. Too messy, among other objections.)

 

Sue

 

 

viola [Viola816]

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:32 AM

RawSeattle

RE: [RawSeattle] garden

 

 

Sue, you wrote that you have a garden, do you make your own compost? If yes,

do you keep lid closed on the compost bin?

 

For some reason I am getting mold growing. Do you know if it's ok, or can I

do anything to stop mold from growing? With opened lid it's a little better.

 

 

Sue Aberle <sue wrote:

And children grow up with not a clue as to where their food comes from.

I've had young women tell me that they won't eat anything (vegetable-wise)

that does not come shrink-wrapped in plastic from the supermarket. Could

you imagine how " grossed out " these people would be if they had a clue what

kind of environment their carrots were grown in, or what part of a cow their

milk came from??

 

I have to reiterate my " better safe than sorry " recommendation on B-12. I'd

rather take an occasional supplement than to take a chance on irreversible

neurological damage, which is the end-result of a B-12 deficiency. And I do

have an organic garden to eat from, so I know that I'm getting some

incidental B-12 via my organically-grown produce. (Another " gross-out " for

the city folks - a freshly-harvested piece of organic fruit or vegetable

will have teeny, tiny insects on it. When we eat the fruit directly from

the vine, guess what...we're eating those teeny, tiny insects! Now, another

person in the local (cooked) vegan community took my comments in that regard

and quoted me as advocating " eating bugs " . (He's a big-city-boy, has never,

ever had a backyard garden, thinks everything comes in a package from the

store.) Not really, but if you take those same freshly-picked berries and

let them sit in a bowl in the kitchen for 15 minutes, you will find them

covered with all kinds of little, tiny flying critters. They didn't come

from nowhere.)

 

Sue

 

 

 

 

 

 

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