International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) 2023

May 7 – 13, 2023

The theme this year is “For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost!” and that brings it to the point. We are doing composting to add nutrients to the soil, adding microbes and attracting worms, providing a healthy soil that has good moisture retention and grows healthy and strong plants, it’s all about soil health.

As a side effect, it also diverts vege scraps from landfill, saving you money and avoiding the transport to landfill. It’s a win-win-win.

No matter if you do this large or small, every bit counts.

Every year, we harvest tomatoes right outside our kitchen window. But we never seed any. Any tomatoes that are not that nice anymore, the ones that the birds picked on, we just squish and chuck them back outside into the planter. Together with other green kitchen stuff. And coffee grinds. The unused tomatoes provide nutrients to the soil and the seeds will stay dormant until next year. The plants seeds will know the right time to germinate. And every year massive tomato plants grow by themselves, without doing anything to it, no work required.