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A Countertop Composter That Zaps Your Food Scraps Into Healthy Soil Fertilizer (article)

Originally found here, by Adele Peters. About 25% of the food in your refrigerator will probably end up in the trash instead of on your plate. And while that’s unfortunate for your wallet, it’s even worse for the environment: The carbon footprint from food waste is actually bigger, amazingly, than the pollution from driving the typical car. Some of the impact comes when the food goes to the landfill, since rotting scraps release the potent greenhouse gas methane. This is all the reason for a new kitchen device called the Food Cycler Home that aims to make it much easier for people to compost their scraps, even in cities that don't offer composting services (which is most cities). In three hours, it can sterilize and deodorize anything and everything from…

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Helping Your Worms Beat the Heat! Keeping Worm Bins Cool

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEka0rNbdy8 Smart idea for the summer time!  If you store your food scraps in the fridge before you compost them, then this is a default no-brainer concept. My basement stays cool or freezing cold all year long it seems, so I've never really thought about this so much. Over at redwormcomposting.com, there's several accounts of people's worms surviving at extremely hot and cold temperatures, well above and below the suggested temps for their survival.  Worms are resilient little critters, aren't they?

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