'Some people adopted a pet. I got a composter.'
is a true highlight of my day. I nurture the rotating drum like a favored pet, feeding it the day’s bounty of egg shells, coffee grinds, and vegetable peels. I peep in at the kitchen scraps and damp newspapers, willing them to transform into fertile loam.
Like many other middle-class, childless Brooklynites, my housemates and I were accustomed to relying on the conveniences of the city. We ate out when we didn’t want to cook, dropped by the butcher on the way home from work to pick up one or two things, occasionally ran out of dish soap due to a lack of forethought. But as the coronavirus grew closer and closer to home, a shift occurred.
“What’s the best way to rig up an irrigation system on the roof?” my fiancée Margaret mused one morning while I was brushing my teeth. “How many pounds ofdo we have?” asked our housemate Max, whom I had never known to express much interest in bean-related matters. Both Margaret and Max grew up Mormon, the descendants of hardy Utah pioneers who persevered through swarms of locusts and seasonal drought.
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