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Teaching Composting To Kids



Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

by ngoldman
Norm Goldman

I have to admit that up to a few years ago my wife Lily and I did not know very much about composting other than recycling food scraps from the kitchen table seemed gross! However, upon further research and after a conversation with my ecologically minded son Dan, we were persuaded to purchase a compost box for our backyard.

If you are not aware what composting kitchen scraps are all about, basically it converts your left over foods that you may normally throw into the garburator or garbage and converts them into a very useful humus-like soil end product. This permits the return of important organic matter or nutrients that are vital to plant growth.  Compost makes an excellent fertilizer, as well as an environmentally friendly way to get rid of perishable waste.

Subsistence farming and home gardening has long used composting for creating garden-ready soil. Today, it is becoming increasingly important and better understood as a tool for reducing municipal solid waste.  The decomposition of organic material sent to landfills is a principal cause of methane, an important greenhouse gas, making reduction of organic waste being land filled a key element in the fight against climate change.

Compost boxes can be home made, and there are many websites explaining how to build your own compost box. You can purchase one from your local municipality, if they are into this kind of a recycling program or your local hardware store.

Composting can become an interesting family activity and even very young children can easily be convinced to go along with it. You may also be able persuade their school to create a composting program in helping to save our earth.

My wife Lily, who is a water colorist and children´s author has gone one step further in publishing a booklet, Mrs. Nosy –A Composting Story that is aimed at youngsters and their parents in learning about the advantages of composting. It is the story of a curious Mrs. Nosy who wants to know everything about her neighbor´s lush garden. The neighbors pretend that every night there is a fairy that dusts "magic" powder on their lawn. What is this "magic" powder? Follow here to learn more about Mrs.Nosy

 Click Here To Read An Interview With Lily A. Goldman

Norm Goldman practiced law for over 35 years and this enabled him to transfer and apply to book reviewing his many skills that he had perfected during his career in the legal profession and as a result he has become a prolific free lance book reviewer & author interviewer.

He is the Editor, Publisher and Reviewer for his own site, Bookpleasures.com (http://www.bookpleasures.com) that he created in 2002.

The site is composed of an international community of book reviewers that come from all walks of life that review all genres of fiction and non-fiction.

In addition to the complimentary reviews bookpleasures.com offers, Norm personally offers his own Priority Book Review service that you can find out more about by clicking on:

http://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/categories/Do-You-Need-A-Quick-Review-Of-Your-Book%3F/

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