Waste of Space

(The Diary of Worm is going on a waste break till next Tuesday.)

In this county waste is a bad word. We say “what a waste of time”, “he is wasted”, “Haste makes waste” and treat waste as something to be discarded. In the world of Growing Power waste is a good word, something to be desired. From the waste of coffee grounds, wood chips, leaves, food scraps, grass clippings, we make soil to grow new food.

It is with this in mind that I cleaned the garden area today using all the waste on new compost piles, one in the worm condo, one of soil waste in the still-unnamed pile, some on the worm depository and some in the regular compost pile. None of the waste of the garden was wasted.

Good waste only comes with time, when the leaves fall off the trees, when fruit or vegetables ripen, from leftovers of cooking, when a tree is downed and cut into scraps, or when the coffee is made and the grounds thrown out.

This might seem like a paradox that waste takes time and that waste makes haste, energy of new life, but that is the way it is. So in the spirit of this almost wasted posting my wife and I are going to waste a few days just sitting around and not doing much. WE are going computerless. Hopefully our waste of time will re-energize us so that when we return to the world of computers and fast moving experiences we will be refreshed and start anew just like the new plants that grow out of the GP box full of old waste, compost, worms and castings.

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