We want to be sustainable but...

So, Courtney (my roommate) and I are living in New York City (Brooklyn, to be exact). We're NYU grad students, commuters, a little hippie, a little preppy, a little hipster, and we're sick of sending our food scraps out to the curb, to support the rat population and the Fresh Kills landfill, or wherever it ends up.

What do we want to do? Compost!

We did a lot of online research, and asked around a lot, and apparently the best way to compost (when you're living in an apartment with absolutely no yard or green space to be had) is with worms. We didn't want to plunge right into it. We were hoping other hip young New Yorkers would go first. But we can't see that they did. So here we go...