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The Dirt on Composting
June 17
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 a.m.
$85.00
Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Soil.
Composting makes a lot of sense: it’s good for your garden, it helps cutting
back on your garbage, and it’s easy. You just have to follow a few simple
rules, and before you know it you’re producing oodles of fertile compost.
In this workshop we’ll explain what exactly happens in your composter,
we’ll walk you through what to compost, how to compost it, and what makes
a composter work well. The pros and cons of different types of composters will
be discussed and construction techniques provided to build your own composter.
Problems associated with composting will also be outlined and solutions will
be provided. No yard for a composter? Don’t despair! We’ll help you
start your own vermicomposter. For the seriously sustainable types, we will also
give you the dirt on “humanure” and take a look at the Eco Centre’s
composting toilets. That’s right: how to compost our own nutrient rich “waste” and
why we should embrace it.
co-ordinators: Lucie Lavoie and Ken Deacon
Lucie Lavoie and Ken Deacon consider themselves ‘urban farmers’,
growing most of their own food using intensive organic gardening techniques
on a number of city lots. Intensive gardening is only possible because
of high soil fertility, thanks to the mountain of compost that is worked
into the garden beds each spring.
Lucie has been working with a number of environmental non-profit organizations
over the past twenty years. Her interests include schoolyard greening,
school and community food gardens, naturalization of urban greenspaces,
and stream stewardship.
Ken has also worked with a number of environmental non-profit organizations,
including EcoSuperior and Citizens Concerned About Pesticides in Thunder
Bay. He is an entomologist, lecturing at Lakehead University, but prefers
to put his education to work in the garden where you will find him happily
composting away.
