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	<title>Balcony Compost</title>
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		<title>Kitchen Compost Fruit Fly Fiasco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re everywhere I know. You start with an acceptably clean and organized kitchen&#8230;used-looking like a good kitchen should be. After cooking one evening you leave a heaping mound of sweet dumpling squash peelings, onion skins, and purslane ends topped over with some steaming decaf coffee grounds scooped from the french press with a rubber spatula. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/kitchen/kitchen-compost-fruit-fly-fiasco</link>
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		<title>Walkscore Your Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered for the first time (thanks to craigslist and my girlfriend) Walkscore! Which as can be imagined, gives you a score for your location&#8217;s walkability! Pretty damn cool.
Gives nearest grocery stores, coffee shops, movie theatres, restaurants etc&#8230; How well do you score for being able to do everything you want without hopping in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/personal/walkscore-your-address</link>
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		<title>Simple Style Composter Upgraded!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is from BalconyCompost fan Alex of Toronto. She is new to the composting scene and made her own custom features to the Simple Style Composter. An early spring in Toronto means some cold compost, here&#8217;s what she had to say:
&#8220;There has been a bit of a stall due to cold weather the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/composts/simple-style-upgraded</link>
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		<title>Produce PLU Stickers in Compost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLU Stickers! (short for Price Look Up stickers) You know those glossy tiny stickers with the 4 to 5 digits on them describing in a standardized way the type of produce they are stickened upon. Before getting into their compostability let&#8217;s learn! (since I just learned myself)
paraphrased from: earthfriendly.com
When it&#8217;s just 4 digits they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/kitchen/produce-plu-stickers-in-compost</link>
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		<title>Carbon Nitrogen Ratio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may have noticed talk of Carbon Nitrogen (C/N) ratios being thrown around like it&#8217;s going out of style in the world of compost. But what&#8217;s it all about? Is it even important? If so, how can I use it to my advantage? Well look no further.
All organic material and otherwise have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/composts/carbon-nitrogen-ratio</link>
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		<title>Seattle Move &amp; Chickens!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moved out to Seattle within the last week from Denver and it&#8217;s so far been quite a trip. I&#8217;m out living with my uncle in Preston of all places, about a half hour outside of Seattle. I&#8217;ve got a ridiculous amount of boxes I fear to ever look into and have found myself in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/personal/seattle-move-chickens</link>
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		<title>The Compost Calcium Fertilizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this is a trick that I picked up from a published gardener while I was on a backpacking trip with Sierra Club Outings. I mentioned I did this compost blog and we started really getting into our favorite practices. This is hers that I now have fully encapsulated into my own.
You may have heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/composts/calcium-fertilizer</link>
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		<title>Winter Worm Warriors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worms are a simple creature from the outside and it&#8217;s easy to think that they are fragile and weak. I thought so too! In fact I thought I had killed my worms in the frozen dead of winter here in Denver Colorado. My compost bin was frozen solid! I even poured some hot water over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/composts/winter-worm-warriors</link>
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		<title>The New Site Mascot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been uber excited about creating a new front piece for the website for quite sometime, and now I&#8217;ve finally gotten off my butt and did it! I created the little bugger in Flash and realized how simple it is to create web friendly flash applications that serve a purpose. Tres chic!
So the name is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/personal/the-new-site-mascot</link>
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		<title>Love it when a plan comes together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps my new favorite field of study, Biomimicry, where learnings from the natural processes of life and nature can be implemented into business and technology making a seamless and sustainable&#8230;anything! And you can imagine how well balcony compost fits into that arena. Very exciting.
I recently read an article in Treehugger all about some current practical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balconycompost.com/personal/love-it-when-a-plan-comes-together</link>
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