Free Community Food Scrap Composting Training

Past event
May 11, 2019, 10 AM to 1 PM

Held at the Charlotte Library, 115 Ferry Rd Charlotte. Saturday May 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. followed by an optional tour of the CCS Community Compost Shed

Community composting offers a local option for recycling food scraps and garden/yard materials, putting these valuable resources to good use, and keeping them out of landfills. You can help build healthy soils, right where you live!

This training is designed to help people and communities determine the composting system that will best meet their goals for collecting and composting food scraps.

Training Overview:
• The "what" and "why" of community composting
• Community-driven goals
• Compost system options, siting, set up, winter preparation
• Composting basics: inputs & outputs, system management
• Gathering needed materials: sourcing, quality, community engagement & training
• Discussion and Q&A
• Hands-on exercises

The training is free and open to the public. Please register at https://forms.gle/XUm8grD7pwnsxFWPA
For more information, contact: Natasha Duarte, natasha@compostingvermont.org or 802-373-6499

Refreshments will be provided; please bring a brown bag lunch, water bottle, and drink mug.

Sponsored by the Northeast Recycling Council • Composting Association of Vermont •
Vermont Community Garden Network • Charlotte Library • Champlain Valley Cohousing
With funding from a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.

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