“To most folks, piles of rotting food scraps and decaying yard waste may conjure images of death and decay. But if you think about it, composting is really about turning death into life. And in this sense, it is a kind of icon of the resurrection and the ultimate reminder of God’s grace. Composting is the act of ‘recycling’ vegetable waste. In our household, we collect vegetable peelings, coffee grounds, paper towels, grass clippings, dead leaves, and other plant waste and throw them in a pile in our backyard (or into worm compost bins in our basement) and let the stuff rot. By achieving a proper balance of nitrogen-rich to carbon-rich materials, along with water, air, and the microbes that naturally exist in soil, the aforementioned waste breaks down over the course of several months into humus, the nutrient-rich part of soil that feeds plants” (Heather Zydek, “Compost as an Icon of the Resurrection,” The Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration, April 13, 2012, https://www.orth-transfiguration.org/compost-as-an-icon-of-the-resurrection/).
