oxes and Boxes

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

As the Baron traveled around Lilliland with his chief advisor, Professor Hamblin, he expressed concern about the smoke that always seemed to be coming from the Lilliland dump. Professor Hamblin said that the smoke was more severed on the days when the dump burned large cardboard boxes. There really wasn’t much that anyone could do about it. There had to be a better solution to this smoke problem. But what was the solution?

The Baron remembered reading an article about a country that believed in the conservation of all things from nature. But how did that apply to cardboard boxes? Finally he asked Professor Hamblin to write to the author of the article that the Baron had read.

About two weeks later, a note came back from the author of the article that contained only three words. The words were “Mulch the boxes.” The Baron immediately had the castle gardeners start mulching all the boxes.

At first no one thought that it would work. They tried different methods of grinding until they reached the size of regular mulch and then added the regular mulch made from tree cuttings and organic fertilizer. They spread a sample around the plants in the castle gardens to see if the new form of mulch would hold the moisture and fertilize the plants.

The mulching of boxes worked out very well providing the right ratio of box mulch, to foliage mulch, to fertilizer was used.

The Baron and Professor were very pleased with the outcome. They discussed the philosophy that nothing in nature was ever wasted but had many uses.

The box burning was an example of air pollution and the remains of the burned boxes were pure waste.

The Professor took some of the new mulch up the mountain to his private retreat cabin to see if the colder climate had any effect on the new mulch and he was happy to report that it did work out very nicely.