Our Compost Journey

WOW! Look at the amazing pile of food that we throw in our rubbish bin each day. There must be a better way to deal with all this unwanted food.

We decided that composting would be the best solution but we had some questions / concerns as to whether an outside compost bin would be best:
1. Where do we put it? Too close to school and it may smell or attract unwanted animals. Too far away and it would become a problem to add each days food.
2. Who would be responsible for it? As well as adding the food each day, who is going to be responsible for turning the compost to keep the air in it?
3. Do we have enough other materials to make really 'good' compost? We learnt that a compost system needs 3 layers - a green layer (which could be grass), a brown layer (which could be twigs and bits from trees) and a food layer. We'll definitely have enough food but would we have enough of the others?

So ... we were thinking that it may not be the best idea after all when Mrs Tobin said - 'Bokashi'.

What's bokashi? Connor looked it up on the internet when he got home and found out that it was a composting system that could be kept inside and that uses ONLY food. That sounded perfect so we ordered one.

Now we'll have to wait and see what we get.