Our small urban veggie garden that will hopefully grow and provide us with many yummy edibles for our family and friends..this is our Farm to Table project.
At our last home my husband made a compost bin by purchasing a big trash can and drilling lots of holes in it, it wasn't pretty but did the job. For the last year, I have wanted again to make a compost bin...we have so many home projects on the "list" and this one hadn't happened yet. The other evening I was cutting some fresh broccoli and lettuce from our farm , it again occurred to me and daunted me - it made no sense for me to keep throwing vegetable scraps in the trash especially when it is so easy to create compost. It is a no-brainer and will at least cut down on our contribution to the landfills plus create some very happy compost for our veggies! So I went back online to the site I had seen months ago through the Santa Clara County Compost Program made an appointment this morning and picked up my new Earth Machine for $50 today! Very excited to start filling it with our scraps, coffee grinds, leaves and grass clippings and then put the finished product back in to our garden - full circle. I plan to set it up this weekend and will post again with a picture of it's new home.
In the late Fall of 2008 we started to grow some winter veggies on the side of our house where we usually plant our tomatoes. It is a work in progress and a delightful learning experience for our son, Dante, now 4 1/2. We like local organic produce and want to make it easier to find some in our backyard.