Are leftovers really no good? Hear what a little English farmer has to say General News Jan 1, 1970 0 views The Little English Farmer / Are leftovers really no good? 0Share Later I learned that weeds and kitchen scraps alone do not achieve much. When green materials decompose, they produce nitrogen gas and liquid; weeds left soaking in water rot rather than decompose. Absorbent waste paper or cardboard helps release carbon dioxide, neutralizing and speeding up decomposition. Mixing the two is the best composting method. To promote gas neutralization, Mr. Buffalo stirs the fertilizer in the compost bin from time to time. To be honest, the sour, foul smell is truly hard to stomach, but thinking of the fertile potting soil come next spring, this bit of inconvenience hardly counts for anything. Digging through the waste and looking closely, you find earthworms and centipedes darting every which way, along with many unnamed beetles, all living on decaying matter. Watching them busily digesting a big bundle of green leaves and kitchen scraps, we no longer find these materials dirty or smelly. Remembering how afraid of earthworms we were as children, it seems rather funny now. But just a few months ago, we had never wondered where our leftover food went, nor ever thought about how to sort green waste. Yet in the process of farming, we suddenly discovered a new cycle,It turns out that every bit of material humans consume returns to the earth in a different form, and in this process, we are merely playing the role of sorters, doing the preliminary work for the world. Today's rotting kitchen scraps are tomorrow's brilliant flowers. Who knows?