La Tomatina took place this week. That’s right, the big tomato fight in Buñol, Spain. In addition to being a big ol’ waste of food, it looked kind of dull.
Based on this video, I’d say it would get old in, oh, about 30 seconds.
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In the Welcome to Wuh-stah (Worcester, Mass.) department, there’s some great news out of Clark University:
While composting captures material from Clark’s waste stream and produces a useable soil amendment, you will have a greater positive impact on the environment by wasting less food in the first place. Try taking less food the first time around. If you are still hungry, get seconds.
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In other New England news, I really enjoyed this column from Northwestern Vermont’s County Courier. Amen!
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Quote of the Week: “My first wife took 3 houses and half of both my pensions. After that, I decided it was time to start helping the needy, not the greedy.”
–Eddie Heard, 81, (in a phone interview) on why he decided to work full-time as a volunteer recovering food with Senior Gleaners.
2 Comments
I agree with taking less food in the first place, and I do this. Even still I end up with food waste just from the preparation stage because I make a lot of our meals from scratch. So I have part of veggies that are inedible or scrapings from the inside of a pan. Nothing is wasted in my kitchen. If we can’t eat it we compost it and then use that compost in the garden.
Sounds like you have food waste well figured out, Trula. How are you composting your kitchen scraps?
Keep up the good work!