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The Low Down on the Composting Workshop
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
We had a fantastic turnout yesterday evening for the Composting Workshop–22 people came out to join expert John Lyons of The Woven Garden.
For those who missed it, here are a few tidbits you can take to your own backyard. And, if you want more help, stay tuned for an Organic Gardening Workshop next month with Deborah.
A couple of tips from Composting 101:
Forget the city green bin if you have a garden. Everything that’s going in there can go into your compost bin instead–it’s part of the perfect recipe for nutritious soil.
Balance your greens (nitrogen-rich items like kitchen food scraps and grass clippings) with your browns (carbon-rich items like newspaper, wood shavings, and dried leaves).
If you’re looking to heat up your compost pile and don’t have access to manure (no cows on your property?), just buy some alfalfa meal and add it to your compost–it’ll do the job, too.
And, as you look ahead to next fall, you can collect all of the dead leaves that drape your property in a bag and tie it up. Setting it aside for a year will create leaf mold, one of the most nutrient-rich soil amendments around that can be spread, sparingly, on your soil. (Good things like leaf mold come to those who wait.)
Best of luck!
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Composting Workshop Wednesday
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The last of our Earth Month donation-based series is tomorrow night.
We hope to see you at the final installment:
Composting and Recycling With John Lyons
Wednesday, April 30th
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
@ All Shades of Green
Composter extraordinaire, John Lyons of The Woven Garden (an organic landscape company), will teach participants why and how to compost kitchen scraps. Not only can you reduce unnecessary waste going to landfills, you can also make the richest plant food around, for free. Your garden is sure to feast on your leftovers!
Workshop topics covered:
*Composting, including the various methods such as passive, active, sheet and in-ground.
*Vermicomposting: how to set up an outdoor, year-round worm bin and how to harvest and use castings.
*How to create great soil by using compost, worm castings, homemade liquid amendments, emulsions, cover crops, mulching, leaf mold, seaweed, and a soil microbiology overview.
*How to recycle in your garden.
*Vermicomposting: how to set up an outdoor, year-round worm bin and how to harvest and use castings.
*How to create great soil by using compost, worm castings, homemade liquid amendments, emulsions, cover crops, mulching, leaf mold, seaweed, and a soil microbiology overview.
*How to recycle in your garden.
We hope to see you tomorrow evening. And if not, we carry worm bins for those of you who want to start with easy-does-it vermicomposting. Come and check them out!
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