photo by kusine.
Did I ever tell you that I have worms?
Vermicomposting, they call it.
Worms aplenty, I tell you. They eat all the cucumber peels, tea leaves and coffee grounds. And other organic matter as well, if we happen to have green and leafy things in the house. And I can vouch for the fact that they make the most awesome fertilizer ever.
I always wanted to be more sustainable and organic when we got a house, and lo and behold! Here we are...
So now I have worms in my basement, and a regular composter in the back yard. Ground up tires as mulch, rain barrels for my down spouts. I even feed the squirrels birds organic bird seed. Oh! and my husband is putting in a patio of recycled slate that I scored when driving by a house that was being renovated. Now I can't say he doesn't do anything in the yard.
For the first time in a long time we are not surrounded by pesticides and other chemicals.
My family is actually (literally) breathing a little easier.
One of the good things about living in the more "ahem"... blue-collar part of fancy-pants Montclair, is that my neighbors all have small yards and not so much use for Chem-Lawn and all the pesticides/fertilizers that go with that.
Back when we were renting, the landscapers were at the complex every week, and they were always using some sort of chemical on the plants. The grass was way greener than what I have now, but you couldn't let the children play on it, because of the toxic chemicals.
Well, ok you can't play on my grass now either, but that's because of all the glass embedded in the dirt. Oh, and also I don't really have "grass" per say, more like weeds that I chop down regularly with my push mower. But hey, if you were to look at my house from, say, 100 feet up? It would look like I had grass.
So yeah, Worms.













