Wonder Woman: Heather Guidice
Meet this week‘s Wonder Woman, Compost Queen, Food Waste Lady, Soil Nerd, Worm Wrangler aka Heather Guidice of Kona Compost, owner of Bucks County’s curbside compost pick up company. I am so grateful this Wonder Woman, her company and dog Kona exists! For the of sake soil, THANK YOU HEATHER!
Check out Kona Compost www.konacompost.com
For me, being kind to the environment is inherent. I embrace this gift of understanding how to make our world, our community, my town a better place and I do it through composting.
It’s a fact, we all have to eat and need nourishing, nutrient-dense food to perpetuate our growth and survival. We also need clean, rich, organic soil to foster the growth of our food, herbs, flowers, trees, etc.
The truth is, many people throw their food waste or as I’d like to call it, an organics accelerant, into the trash. It rots, spoils, gets wrapped up in a plastic bag and taken to a landfill where it emits greenhouse gases over time. It’s a rather unfortunate story that is told time and time again without any thought placed against the action. “It’s just one banana peel” said 300 million people. Yikes, that’s a lot of peels!
Now, here’s where I step in. I tell everyone I possibly can, “composting is easy,” because it truly is just that…easy. We grow food, we eat food, we create food waste, we return our waste back to the soil, which grows our food…and the cycle continues.
We’ve been taught to recycle and separate our glass, metals and plastics and have even been provided a separate can for these items. We’ve created a habit of not throwing these items in the trash. We’ll just leave it at that, because recycling is a whole other deep conversation, but the point is we recycle because it’s better for the environment and these items aren’t garbage.
The same can be said for composting. It’s about developing a new action of placing your food waste not in the trash, not in the recycling can, but rather, in the compost bucket. Like I said, composting is easy.
Compost pick-up services, such as mine, make composting that much easier by providing folks with a bucket, hauling their food scraps to a farm on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, turning the scraps into nutrient-dense soil and returning soil back to my customers or donating it to a community garden on their behalf. Talk about full circle and keeping it local, all while creating less waste! In my mind, it honestly can’t get much better than that.
My mission is simple, “Make Soil, Not Waste”. It is my goal to have as many households in Bucks County composting and to educate anyone I possibly can on the benefits of composting whether it’s with Kona Compost, someone else or helping someone get started in their own backyard. In the two short years we’ve been operating over 25,000lbs of food waste has been composted rather than landfilled.
I’ll happily be your compost queen, food waste lady, soil nerd, worm wrangler or whatever else to get you composting. Feel free to reach out for more information, with questions & curiosity:
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