positive about composting!

So I decided to change my blog from something I'm not very excited about (drawing) to something I am very excited about: recycling!

compost monster!

I bought a Japanese composter online the other week and it arrived a few days ago. So far things are great, I've put all my food scraps in there and there's no smell or anything. I bought a bag of EM1 Rice Bran Bokashi which is supposed to help the compost with the smell and accelerate the decomposition I guess. Bokashi is a Japanese term meaning fermented organic matter. So maybe all my little bucket is doing is fermenting the food scraps and then I have to make a compost pile somewhere? I've already voulenteered my parents backyard for the compost burrial. Their plants will never know what hit them!

What's disturbing about this moldy bread is that it's been in the fridge since April when it expired and that's all the mold it had on it. The brown bread to the left of it is from May! and it still hasn't started molding! A little concerning...

a map of my compost pile

My naive dream is that I put food scraps in there and then a few weeks later I empty it and the food has magically turned into dirt! Realistically, in a few weeks I'll empty it and it'll be the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. Here's hoping it's somewhere in between the two.