Over the years our school has been trying to save as much food as possible. Some people came together and started the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School food waste program. Each and every day a student would give every class a blue bucket and at the end of the day they would come back and pick up the bucket of food waste. They have been adding up the food waste weight and it has been added up to over 10,000 pounds. Our school used to give all our slop to Josh Scott of Beetlebung Farm to feed the pigs, but after last year ended they were not keeping pigs any more so now we give the slop to local farms to use to help their crops.

Did you know that half the food you buy goes to waste after you cook it? If you don’t compost, all the food you don’t eat goes into the trash. Instead of all of the food you do not eat going into the trash you should try composting. If you want to try it, try the easy stuff. The easy stuff is putting all your food you don’t eat into a bowl with some green stuff and brown stuff. The green stuff is your nitrogen content and the brown stuff is your carbon content. When the bowl gets full, give it to a farm or to your chickens (only if you have them.) I think it would good for us and good for you to try it because every year about $160 billion is wasted from people buying food then throwing it away. Hopefully some of these words will come to mind and you will start composting.

Bea Welch
Edgartown