Compost Stew Book Review

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Food scraps transforming into soil? Compost is pretty amazing!

Compost Stew by Mary McKenna Siddals is helpful because sometimes it’s hard to remember what can and can’t be composted. It’s also a great book to help celebrate Earth Day.

This book goes through A through Z and shares different ideas for what can be composted. Some items can’t be composted because they take decades or centuries to break down and some don’t work well because they attract unwanted critters in backyard bins.

A few more tidbits about composting:

  • Compost rots and turns into a dirt-like fertilizer after 3-12 months
  • Organisms like bacteria, fungi, and insects help compost break down
  • The more food we all compost reduces harmful gases at landfills that contribute to global warming

If you have the ability to have an area for compost, it’s a great way to help the planet.  Even if you can’t compost at home, keep an eye out for restaurants and stores that may have compost bins. There are also services in some communities where you can pay to have them pick up your compost. Hopefully composting becomes more common all the time!

What’s your experience with composting?

~ Carrie

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Comments

  1. I’m doubly delighted to discover not only your lovely review of COMPOST STEW, but also the terrific Book Response resource material you’ve developed for it! I look forward to sharing this post on our COMPOST STEW Facebook page, and thank you so much, Carrie, for shining such a generous Earth Day spotlight on my book!

  4. This sounds like a wonderful book– one that even I could benefit from and not just my kids. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Love to Learn. Pinned.

  5. This looks good! My husband would love it as he loves doing this kind of activity out back with the kids. Thanks for sharing this at Booknificent Thursday on Mommynificent.com!
    Tina

  6. This sounds like a great book for children and also adults who may not know much about composting. We have a garden and we do try to compost as much as we can. It’s a great way to enrich the soil, too. 🙂 Blessings to you! Thanks for sharing at the #LMMLinkup!

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