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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Posted by Niki Sullivan @ 10:07:22 am

One of my favorite things about living in a house is that I can finally compost food waste. Exciting, I know. But when we moved out of the apartment and started composting and recycling (the apartment didn't have the best recycling system, so we ended up throwing a lot out), we cut down the amount of garbage we produce to just one small bag a week.

One of my least favorite things about composting is finding a way to store all the food scraps for a few days until I go dump it in the bin. We've tried plastic bags and Tupperware-type containers, but it's all gross.

So I'm ordering this:
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Bio-bags. The web site says they're fully biodegradable, so I can just toss the whole thing in my composter. Sounds good to me. Apparently they're also good for storing fruits and veggies in the refrigerator -- something I welcome, as it kills me that I'm going to have to toss my $3 bunch of wilted organic kale from the CSA that I never got around to cooking.

Has anyone used these? Any other good methods for storing scraps?

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