Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow

Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow

Picture book
Every spring Orono Community Garden gets a load of good
chocolate brown compost. One of the ingredients for this valuable
fertilizer is food waste from UMaine Dining Commons. Another is horse
poop from UMaine's Witter Farm. I don't know what else is in it. I
do know that, mixed in carefully with soil, it helps us grow amazing
organic vegetables.
As a nation we put too much food garbage into landfills. This
not only takes up too much space, but leads to the creation of noxious
gases. Many adults think, "So sad, too bad, but not much I can do
about it." Kids are way smarter.
That's why Linda Glaser's Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow, with
photographs by Shelley Rotner, is such a valuable resource for school
and public libraries. A group of adorable kids shows each step in the
garbage to compost to garden process. More detailed instructions can
be found in the back, including how to be part of the compost creation
process if you don't have a back yard.
If you have kids still to home or a youth group Garbage Helps
Our Garden Grow is a grand investment.
On a personal note, I still haven't managed to start working in
community garden (or library volunteering) this summer. Work time
conflicts and the need to be home with Joey are to blame. Hopefully
this coming week...
A great big shout out goes out the people with whom I will be gardening.
jules hathaway


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