Compost-Along Week 2

Welcome to Week 2 of the Compost-Along. Before we get started, a little business to take care of.  Everyone who joined the -Along by commenting on either the intro post or the first assignment post, or via email, or on Facebook was tossed into a pool to win a copy of...

Compost-Along News

Hi composters.  (All 56 of you, so far!) I’m going to be Tweeting and Facebooking my favorite composting links throughout the -Along, so if you want to catch them I’m on Twitter at @daisysiskin and our FB is Little House in the Suburbs.  We’ve got...

Compost-Along: Week 1

I’m way too excited about this CAL. I was afraid nobody would show up, but a bunch of you did and I can’t tell you how tickled it makes me. I’m also excited to have a big pile of delicious compost a few weeks from now. This first week is important,...

Compost-Along

I’ve had the dorkiest idea. You’ve probably heard about Knit-Alongs, where people get together online and knit the same project together in small steps over a set period of time? Well, not everybody knits.  Even if you do knit, maybe you’ve set down your needles for...

Book Giveaway–The Art of Fermentation

If I had this book last year, I wouldn’t have thrown out (and buried, yes, buried) a gallon of naturally fermented purple cabbage in my backyard.  I would’ve just scooped off the horrid slimey mold on top, and enjoyed the brilliant kraut underneath. I need...