Cultivate
I’m new to the world of urban backyard container gardening, and it shows.
It all started last January on a cold Sunday – the kind of cold that sucks the moisture out of the air and reminds you why green things perish in the winter months. I had been out to dinner in Providence with my favorite girl, Emily, the night before, and we had talked about urban composting. I was agonizing over the amount of veggie scraps and food waste that went into the trash in my apartment, because I eat a veritable ton of vegetables as a healthy vegetarian typically does. I brought up vermicomposting – composting using worms, specifically red wrigglers, as a means of speeding up the process of turning food waste into rich, fertile soil, while simultaneously avoiding large piles of fly attracting/producing garbage that people typically envision when they picture compost heaps. With vermicomposting, the little guys munch their way through your vegetable and fruit waste at the incredible rate of 1-2 pounds a week, so the pile never gets very big, and if you play your cards right, does not smell or attract flies. I had heard it worked and was compact enough for city living, but had no clue where to obtain worms in the dead of winter. The conversation went something like this:
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If you’ve never seen alpacas close up, you’re missing something very special! I’ve had a couple of opportunities to get ‘up close and personal’ with small and friendly alpaca herds. The last one was at Silver Oak Farm Alpacas 