Comments on: 8:30 to 5:30 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/ a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:21:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Raised Bed Gardening http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-22858 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:46:02 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-22858 <strong>Raised Bed Gardening...</strong> I enjoyed reading your blog. It is so interesting reading other peoples personal take on a subject.... Raised Bed Gardening…

I enjoyed reading your blog. It is so interesting reading other peoples personal take on a subject….

]]> by: Lisa http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17780 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:07:03 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17780 That's great you are working to create a renewable energy source for food. For about 10 years now we take bananas, coffee grounds and tomatoes and work them back into the soil. Luckily our soil is not contaminated so we grow hardy tomatoes. After the tomato season is over, the tomatoes go back into the earth to enrich the soil. Our tomatoes have been tasting better and better every year! That’s great you are working to create a renewable energy source for food.

For about 10 years now we take bananas, coffee grounds and tomatoes and work them back into the soil.

Luckily our soil is not contaminated so we grow hardy tomatoes. After the tomato season is over, the tomatoes go back into the earth to enrich the soil. Our tomatoes have been tasting better and better every year!

]]> by: Sarah http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17335 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:34:12 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17335 Another option for composting food scraps from work... start a worm bin in your office! We've had one for about a year now and it's going great. We've already divided the worms once so 3 of us could start our own home bins. Other than a minor fruit fly problem, which we resolved with Dipel dust and apple cider traps, there have been no odor, pest, or escapee worm issues. Another option for composting food scraps from work… start a worm bin in your office! We’ve had one for about a year now and it’s going great. We’ve already divided the worms once so 3 of us could start our own home bins.

Other than a minor fruit fly problem, which we resolved with Dipel dust and apple cider traps, there have been no odor, pest, or escapee worm issues.

]]> by: Rosa http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17125 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:34:07 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17125 Yeah, all our soil is contaminated with lead, and we're waiting on an arsenic test :( We thought about getting the soil remediated but nobody would tell us what happens with the contaminated soil. It doesn't seem right to take leady soil from one place and just dump it somewhere. So all my gardening is in raised beds and containers, and we keep the rest covered up with turf or weed cloth covered with mulch, to stop the kids digging in it or tracking it all over. The amazing thing is how much new soil we've built up out of fallen leaves and food scraps. My original raised bed is about a foot and a half taller than it was 5 years ago. Yeah, all our soil is contaminated with lead, and we’re waiting on an arsenic test :( We thought about getting the soil remediated but nobody would tell us what happens with the contaminated soil. It doesn’t seem right to take leady soil from one place and just dump it somewhere.

So all my gardening is in raised beds and containers, and we keep the rest covered up with turf or weed cloth covered with mulch, to stop the kids digging in it or tracking it all over.

The amazing thing is how much new soil we’ve built up out of fallen leaves and food scraps. My original raised bed is about a foot and a half taller than it was 5 years ago.

]]> by: Jonathan http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17054 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:56:59 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-17054 And a lot of ground for remembering that container. Your plants will be so happy you did. Good for you. And a lot of ground for remembering that container. Your plants will be so happy you did. Good for you.

]]> by: Rosa http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-16886 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:57:43 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-16886 That reminds me, I had just finally remembered to take a plastic container in to work so I could bring home coffee grounds, when I gave up coffee for New Year's. Haven't made coffee (and dumped old grounds) since. I'm going to try to remember to bring home some coffee grounds on Monday. There are about 200 people on my floor and we go through probably 8 carafes of coffee a day. That's a lot of grounds. That reminds me, I had just finally remembered to take a plastic container in to work so I could bring home coffee grounds, when I gave up coffee for New Year’s. Haven’t made coffee (and dumped old grounds) since.

I’m going to try to remember to bring home some coffee grounds on Monday. There are about 200 people on my floor and we go through probably 8 carafes of coffee a day. That’s a lot of grounds.

]]> by: Jonathan http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-16765 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:10:50 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-16765 Yeah, totally. I should do that. Then again, it doesn't seem like a big fruit and veg crowd. Actually, the only thing I've seen others consume is coffee. Lots of coffee. I do let my neighbor toss his food waste into my compost bin... Yeah, totally. I should do that. Then again, it doesn’t seem like a big fruit and veg crowd. Actually, the only thing I’ve seen others consume is coffee. Lots of coffee.

I do let my neighbor toss his food waste into my compost bin…

]]> by: Andy in San Diego http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-16759 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:40:36 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/10/830-to-530/#comment-16759 Oh, yeah? Let's see you take your coworkers' peels and rinds home. :-) Oh, yeah? Let’s see you take your coworkers’ peels and rinds home. :-)

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