Five Reasons to Compost #4

a couple handfuls of compost...

4. Composting recycles essential nutrients back into the soil.

Food scraps are a valuable resource! Just like the parts that you eat, the parts of food you toss contain important vitamins and minerals that, when returned to soil, get recycled back into the ecosystem and taken up by the next round of crops grown on the land.

Unfortunately, today’s intensive agricultural methods have resulted in nutrient depletion in soils, which in turn has caused the fruits and veggies they grow in to be significantly less nutritious than a few decades ago. An important way to combat this is to promote healthy soil – which can be done by composting.

Follow along… we will continue with the reasons to compost on our next blog entry…