Who Took My Dang Bucket?
After years of feeling guilty about throwing out food scraps, I started subscribing for weekly pickup by WasteNot Compost a while back. I am a very satisfied customer and all had gone smoothly until this Thursday, when through no fault of theirs, the replacement bucket they’d dropped off for us went missing.
I’ll take part of the blame because I was out most of the day, forgot to check for the new bucket before I left, and by the time I went to look outside our building’s front door, it was gone.
Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I didn’t want to go a week — especially one in which I plan to do a bunch of cooking — without the old compost bucket. And though I’d planned to give myself Saturday off after a wildly busy week, I knew that WasteNot has a booth at the Saturday Green City Market at Lincoln Park, so off I went.
The folks at WasteNot have been unfailingly helpful, so I had little worry that they wouldn’t provide a replacement bucket. But I had the good fortune to be waited on by Taylor, a Waste Not employee and local food advocate who I’d met at the company’s booth at the West Loop Green City Market a few weeks back. So I got a nice catch-up chat with my new bucket, which now looks right at home…
Since I was there, I took the obligatory photos of the big Green City Market crowd, and the band entertaining the throng with some nice old-timey music.
We also had plans to get kale for a salad at our next market visit, so I made a beeline to the stand of Wholesome Harvest Farm (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin). Their greens are organic and always delicious, and this year their bunches have been just humongous.
So even though I brought home only three items — two bunches of kale and one of Swiss chard — I can’t really called this a small haul.