Sorting
out rubbish for good 10/Sept/2013
Sorting out rubbish/garbage/refuse is
for your own good. Personally, I have
been doing it ever since I was in control of the situation. That means I have no problem doing it. Hence I have been doing it since 20 over
years ago before I started cooking for my family.
Well,
I divide my refuse into biodegradable and non-biodegradable
products. For non-biodegradable
products, I sort out recycleable and non-recycleable products. For non-recycleable products,
I dump/dispose them into SMC rubbish bin; for recycleable products, I will
send them to recycling centre(s) for good.
For biodegradable products, again, I divide them into edible /inedible for
my poultry. For inedible, I give them to
my plants, vegetables or my fruit/herbal trees.
Look, I keep the water that I clean
my fish/chicken/pork, wash my rice and the like for my garden. It is
liquid and solid together in a pot.
Besides, I also rinse the food stains
on the dishes into the pot. You don’t
lick the bowls and plates, right. So there
is something good there for you to rinse off into that collecting pot for your
garden. You will find this liquid and
solid waste so good for your garden flora.
So
I have proved that the place here is also suitable for growing fruit trees and
vegetables as long as we improve the soil condition. The fact that the topmost soil had all been
scraped off and our place is built on a levelled hill and so I have to do the fill up to make it
viable. So we laid down several lorries
of soil to make good.
Now I have a productive soursop tree,
the fruit of which, just tastes natural and marvellous. Once I also had 2 custard apple trees from
the seeds I threw on the ground and they proved wonderful, too. I have had the experiences of growing such vegetables like lady’s fingers,
brinjals, cucumbers, squashes,local spinaches, kangkong, long beans,
4-angled beans, bitter gourds, chillies, potato leaves and marichai.
At present, I have a soursop tree which
produces more than enough fruit for us.
I have a moringa tree, 3 papaya trees, 3 pineapple plants, bitter gourds, 4-angled beans, spring onions and
bitter gourds. Due to space constraints
as most of the area is used for coops up for poultry, mostly chickens.
I also have grown herbs like ‘niya’, ‘ngu ger pi’, ‘machao’
and ‘buang ni chao’ (in Foochow). I try to use herbs from my garden in place of
the herbs from China. My husband just
refuses the herbs from China as he is afraid that they might be
contaiminated. The fact that there are frequent reports of acute
water and air pollution in China.
To
make life sustainable, it is to sort out the rubbish properly, keep your own
poultry, grow your own fruit trees and vegetables if possible. Try to be as careful and thrifty as possible
with our consumption all for our own good.
The fruit peels, unwanted vegetables and left-over
food excluding all kinds of meat except the seafood are all given to my
poultry. They really enjoy these extras
besides crushed corn pieces. These extras also makes the chicken meat tastes delicious, too.
I cannot claim my chickens 100% organic because they
are given processed chicken feed when they are small / in the first 2 weeks or
so. Last time I gave my chicken
processed chicken feed for 2 months. If possible,
if I can find the replacement, I am not going to give them any processed
chicken feed at all. I am still on the
experimenting stage.
This mini-garden-farming makes my life more
interesting and fruitful too. Hence I see farming a good option as a career,
too. If you have an acre / 2 of land,
you definitely feel more secure with your life as you can turn to your land at
any time for production.
