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A composting salad...

Lemon and lime peels, apple cores, dried-up lettuce leaves, broccoli and cauliflower greens. Leaves, overripe berries and old, wrinkly carrots, dirt from old flowerpots – a compost salad recipe.

In a corner of your yard or garden, create a composting space, using a professional composting frame or container, or creating your own. Into it toss fruit and vegetable peels, grass clippings and dried leaves, shredded paper and cardboard, paper towels, coffee grounds, eggshells, teabags and more. This mixture of moist and dry materials creates a balance of nutrients, rewarding you in 12 to 18 months with rich, dark soil to add to your garden. (Don’t include dairy or meat products.)

Keep the compost moist by sprinkling it occasionally, and turn it with a shovel or spade every week or so. This is a great family project. Children can add and mix new materials into existing ones. It’s easy and fun to watch the materials recycle themselves into new, useful gardening matter. This compost then can be worked into your gardens to help new things grow.

For details, go online and Google “composting,” or find information at your library. Some local city governments provide this information to residents.

The Hennepin County Brooklyn Park recycling facility also sells a limited number of composters for $35 during specified hours.

Enriching the earth by recycling and giving back to it these good things … that’s caring for creation.

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