Composting inside and out
Today I built two new compost containers. A lot of the weeds we just till back into the soil or feed to Gulliver the bull or Frankie the horse (No, those aren't Sopranos characters, they are farm animals!) as green manure. Kitchen scraps and some other stuff needs a place where the bacteria and other critters can work on them to create compost.
Here is the old compost bin. It's just chicken wire held up by a few stakes. This container was placed under a tree so id didn't get the sunshine or water that it needed to work well. Which brings me to my acupuncture point...
Your internal composting happens primarily in your small intestine. There you have vast number of microorganisms that compost the food you eat so that the nutrients can be absorbed. If the internal conditions aren't right, like the compost bin under the tree, you won't get full nutritional value from the food you eat.
The best way to restore the conditions in your intestines is to take a probiotic supplement. Eating live culture yoghurt is fine for maintenance, but if you have been on a heavy dose of anti-biotics, birth control or have had surgery you need a system for getting the good bacteria past your stomach acid. Get a probiotic that is coated. Natrol's Biobeads and Shaklee's ProBiotics are ones I recommend.
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