Community Garden Collaborative Offers Composting Workshop
Sunday, October 6, 2013. 1:00pm
As part of its continuing series of food security workshops, the Community Garden Collaborative will host a composting workshop on Sunday, October 6 starting at 1:00pm.
Because attendance is limited, pre-registration is required. Please call Tim Stevenson at 802.869.2141 to register.
The workshop is is free, though we always pass the hat for our presenters. Light refreshments will be available.
Through discussion, illustrations, demonstration jars, and handouts, the workshop will focus of the basics of creating compost for your vegetable and flower gardens. It will present various ways of choosing or making a compost bin or pile; the materials to put in a compost pile; various methods of composting; how to use compost to build up your soil; the benefits of composting; and the new state law regarding composting.
This workshop will be presented by Phil and Gloria Hammond, who are retired school teachers from Hartland, Vermont. They have been gardening since they were 4-H members and farm kids.Both have completed the Vermont Extension Master Gardener Program, and currently have 4 composting bins that they use to enhance their gardens, as well as make their own potting soil.
United Church of Bellows Falls
8 School Street
Bellows Falls, VT
05101