The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
I gave a five-star rating last week to a gripping non-fiction book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Roland Allen takes readers through a whirlwind tour from the…
12% vinegar all weekend
12% vinegar is an amazing product. Spray it directly on weeds in your patio stones to quickly clean those up. It works quickly and effectively. More impressive is how it…
Better shave. Less waste.
Mid-last-year I picked up a safety razor from my local zero-waste store and making my own home-job after-shave and it's changed my relationship with shaving. I have a convert's fervour…
Top of the pile is getting hot
I gave the composter another aggressive turning yesterday in an effort to dry out the core of it a little. Very pleased this morning that it's up to 81 in…
Turning over the core
The temperature at the top of my last-year's compost pile has been consistently in the low 80s, but the core of it has been stuck at 70 for the last…
66 deg
The composter is finally showing some signs of life after I turned it a couple of days ago and the weather warms up. The core of it is now up…
Cook that compost
A Mastodon friend has his composter up to 100F and the bottom of my batch is still languishing at around 60-62F. It's holding its heat overnight, but I'm afraid a…
Compost thermometer
One of my Mastodon acquaintances has seen me posting about compost and alerted me a few weeks ago to the existence of compost thermometers. I've acquired a compost thermometer, and…
Composter’s full
My composter was actually a little fuller a week ago but the warmer temperatures have kicked the decomposition a bit into gear. Over the winter it slows down a bit…
Two months of waste
On December 7 I zeroed off my waste tracking after finally determining to weigh everything going out the door (see the full numbers here). So what did the first two…