Composting Through the Winter

Don’t stop composting when it’s too cold to make a trip to the compost bin.

I love making big batches of fresh vegetable soup to feed my family of five on frigid Midwestern winter days. A bonus of this soup-making activity is the wealth of vegetable scraps I get to add some green matter to the volumes of carbon-rich dead leaves in my compost bin. However, when the weather is especially bitter I don’t always feel like hauling a handful of carrot peels to the compost bin. Here’s how I save my scraps until the winter storms pass: I throw them all into a giant zip-lock bag, and put them in the freezer. I dump the frozen glob into my bin, and save the empty bag in the freezer for next time. Happy composting!