In Chinese, we have a proverb: “The bridge will naturally straighten itself out when a boat reaches it.”
Today should be highly stressful because we somehow needed to churn out enough food waste for not just one, but two composting projects. Luckily, Sensei is resourceful and deployed his wits as usual. I saw the bento boxes in the invigilation ops room - and a brainwave came to me. Why don’t I use the leftover food as materials for the black soldier fly larvae and for the composting bin? And that’s what I did, even if it took me 45 minutes to scoop the food into plastic bags.
The first session went overtime, but thankfully, both vendors were happy to meet each other. What should be an awkward session turned out to be an intellectually stimulating exchange of insights. Despite having come from different areas of expertise, they shared a common love of sustainability. It was quite enthralling for me to witness really.
All’s well that ends well. Thus ends my gratitude journal for today.
Here is my home made solution:
3 plastic boxes, same size.
Bottom collect the liquid.
Middle organic waste already processed by the California Worms.
Top box, fresh left overs from the kitchen.
All the lids have small holes where the liquid or the worms can move from one box to the other. Except the top one.
The time of the process depends on the 🌡️ weather, humidity, etc. In my case, to get the product as it is now in the middle box would take 3 months approximately.
thanks for taking such detailed photos. let me have a good idea of the system.
How long do these California worms live? Where do you source for them?
I don't know how many years they can live but they reproduce very fast.
I bought a starter colony of earthworms over 10 years ago and haven't bought any since.
During that time, there was a period of about four years when they were somewhat neglected, yet they survived...
In Spain there are a couple of stores where you can buy it. Stores specialized in plants and gardening stuff.
interesting to know! thanks for enlightening me
~Permaculture
Can you unpack that proverb for me?
thank you for alerting me to this new territory!
sorry, the proverb is so intuitive to me that I didn’t realise that it’s Greek to others.
So the boat may be meandering along the river due to strong currents. But when it is about to reach a bridge, somehow it will straighten its course such that people can disembark at the bridge. Extrapolating to life, it reminds us not to get overly worried about things that haven’t happened yet. About how life has a way of working itself out
So I was glad that I didn’t stress out about these two projects because things just fell into place today. I got the amount of food waste I needed; the two vendors were genuinely interested in each other! Phew
Great proverb