my Chinese guest is looking puzzled
any vegetable waste, peelings, tea, coffee grounds ... put them in here
I point at the kitchen waste bucket, she shrinks back in horror. Maybe I need to show more of the process, I pick up the bucket and beckon her to follow me up the garden, open the compost bin and tip the bucket into it. She looks stricken
Why would you do that?
It feeds the garden, the worms and insects break it down to make a rich soil - don't you feed your garden?
I feed my garden with yellow beans
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I’on Swamp.
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In Anna Wiener’s New Yorker piece “How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?”
(archived), there is a mention of “the I’on Swamp, a former rice paddy on
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Look for a youtube video! xoxo
ReplyDeleteIs there one that explains yellow beans?
DeleteProbably, sweetpea! EVERYTHING is on youtube! xxoo
DeleteBut for thousands of years the Chinese have produced ‘night soil’ in their gardens - with food scraps and they would vie to build the most appealing outhouses to entice passers by to fill their buckets. Now me, yesterday I was on my bike ride and pausing to admire the distant fountain when a Chinaman arrived and sat down singularly in front of my view to block it. After a polite pause I got up to leave, thinking to myself ‘view now spoiled - I only see Chinaman now and no fountain!’ Lol!
ReplyDelete'nightsoil' mmmm , thank you John, nice to see you
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