(Click image to expand map)

Composting is a great way to reduce (smelly) garbage and turn it into something your plants will love. Astoria CSA member and Certified Master Composter, Helen, will teach us the ins and outs of indoor composting, where to get worms and how to best care for your worm bin.

Join us Sunday, June 10, 12-2 PM at Two Coves Community Garden for a FREE composting event (as well as a little community garden work).

Two Coves is located at the corner of Astoria Blvd, 8th St and Main Ave.

This event is free for members! Please bring a bag of goodies you think might be compostable (and maybe pen and paper)!!

Did you know…

(from Cornell) Composting provides a partial solution to an issue of great concern in many communities. All around the country, landfills are filling up, garbage incineration is becoming increasingly unpopular, and other waste disposal options are becoming ever harder to find.

Composting provides a way not only of reducing the amount of waste that needs to be disposed of, but also of converting it into a product that is useful for gardening, landscaping, or house plants.

By addressing the solid waste issue, composting provides a way of instilling in children a sense of environmental stewardship. Many educational programs focus on reducing, reusing, and recycling our solid wastes. Composting fits in with this idea but takes it a step beyond.

With composting, children can do more than just sending cans or newspapers off for recycling — they can see the entire cycle, from “yucky” food scraps or other organic waste to something that is pleasant to handle and is good for the soil. Contrary to the “out of sight, out of mind” philosophy, children who compost become aware of organic wastes as potential resources rather than just as something “gross” to be thrown away and forgotten. They learn through direct experience that they personally can make a difference and have a positive effect on the environment.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 4th, 2007 at 1:18 pm and is filed under Events, Local Business/ Community News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.