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Composting At Home – Webinar

May 7, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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An Introduction to the Basics.

Are you sheltering-in-place at home? Looking for a way to recycle your food scraps? Interested in producing your own “black gold” for your yard or garden? Need an activity to do with your children? Want to avoid greenhouse gases from landfills and incinerators and store carbon in local soils? 

Learn how to home compost! 

There’s never been a better time. By composting at home, you can protect the planet and improve your soil while practicing safe physical distancing. Join this webinar to learn how to successfully compost at home. This webinar will cover the basics of hot composting outside and worm composting or vermicomposting inside.

 

Presenters

Rhonda Sherman

North Carolina State University
Extension Specialist, Department of Horticultural Science
Raleigh, N.C.

Rhonda Sherman is a leading authority on vermicomposting. Rhonda is the founder and director of a 2‐acre Compost Learning Lab (CL2) at NC State’s 1,500-acre Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory. The CL2 has a 40‐ft by 30‐ft Worm Barn, an equipment shed, and a covered teaching shelter. There are 26 types of composting and vermicomposting bins and areas for hands‐on training activities. She has taught composting and vermicomposting in Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Chile, and throughout the United States. She has authored over 65 publications on vermicomposting, composting, recycling and waste reduction. More information available at the North Carolina State Extension website on vermicomposting.

Brenda Platt

Director, Composting for Community Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Washington, DC.

Brenda and her team at ILSR are supporting community-scale composters via forums, webinars, podcasts, guides, policies, trainings, and more. She has been a home composter for more than 30 years and is a lead trainer for ILSR’s Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders Composter Train-the-Trainer Program. In 2017, the US Composting Council awarded her its H. Clark Gregory Award for outstanding service to the composting industry through grassroots efforts. In 2019, BioCycle magazine featured Brenda as one of its organics recycling trailblazers.

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Details

Date:
May 7, 2020
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Event Categories:
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Website:
https://ilsr.org/webinar-home-composting-may-2020/

Organizer

Institute For Local Self-Reliance

Venue

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