Realizing just how environmentally-unfriendly chemical fertilizers are, in June this year, she decided to take a composting workshop to learn how to make her own organic fertilizer.

The Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines compost as a mixture of largely decayed organic matter than can be used to fertilize and condition land.

Urban farmers use their organic household waste, ranging from food waste like remnants of vegetables, fruit skin and fish bones to fallen leaves to make compost to fertilize their homegrown vegetables, typically water spinach.

Urban composting has gained so much in popularity that in late July, an organization called Kota Tanpa Sampah (City Without Trash) organized a virtual composting festival. The workshop Corry joined was also a bimonthly event organized by the organization.

Kota Tanpa Sampah is the brainchild of LabTanya, an ecologically-minded design organization that wants to encourage the use of various research methods among urban communities.

Adi Wibowo, one of Kota Tanpa Sampah’s cofounders, said there were two composting processes: aerobic and anaerobic.

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