Spring time find

You know the excitement of finding money in a pocket of a coat the first time you wear it for a season? Well, we had a great spring find at our house yesterday that felt kind of like that. I was clearing off the excess compost from the garden to plant some peas and found our orange peeler! Those peelers that you get from Tupperware that score the oranges so they are easier to peel - one of those. There it was sitting in the mulch. It must have been mulched with the peelings sometime over the winter. We can now peel oranges easier again, yippee.

Thinking of compost, God really did create an amazing planet for us. We have been putting our kitchen scraps in the garden all winter. And as I dug through all of the compost on the garden to plant, there really was very little that was identifiable except egg shells. All of the carrot and potato peelings and apple cores were completely unrecognizable and turning themselves back into quality soil for growing more stuff. Really a very cool process. I know it makes "trash" at our house more complicated (trash can, recycle or compost bucket), but composting a great way to reduce the junk that goes to the landfill and we don't have to buy more stuff called fertilizer.