Andre Joseph Gallant

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NYC Compost Project

The instructions provided on the NYC compost project website on how to build an indoor worm compost bin are about the easiest that I’ve seen. Some questions that still need answering for apartment dwellers are: what to do with the finished product if you aren’t gardening, or are creating more compost than your flower pots can handle; and what to do about the smell. Many high-density apartment residents, the truly urban types, who are proponents of compost often do not compost themselves because they feel they’ve nowhere to put the peat. Well, if you can’t get a few houseplants, or hang a herb garden from a window, maybe you could bag up your compost and walk through town spreading the black gold as mulch on city tree plantings. Just a thought.

But square and sure, a worm compost bin is the best bet for the pied-a-terre set.