As we prepare food, we have the choice of just throwing the scraps in the garbage or returning this nutritional waste back to the soil. Anyone with a garden at home knows the value of composting and how it improves the quality of the soil. Even if you live in a city composting is important and can be quite simple.

Our Raw Family office is located in a complex without a garden nearby. For years we would carry our compost home with us which was inconvenient and could get messy and stinky. Valya came up with a quick and easy way to compost right at the office complex. She puts the food scraps into the Vita mix, and then blends them with a little bit of water. Then she pours this blend onto any soil nearby. After a few months of doing this, we’ve noticed an improvement in the trees and bushes that grow around us and even the soil itself – the earth worms love it!

This way of composting takes literally seconds and is very clean. You may put such food scraps as banana peels, onion skins, avocado pits and skin, watermelon rinds, fruit seeds, orange peels, and so on. It’s important to remember that all these food scraps must be raw – we don’t put cooked food in the compost because it would destroy microorganisms in the soil.

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