Composting is nature’s way of recycling. Growing healthy plants start from the ground up! Like humans, plants require certain nutritional elements for optimal growth and health. Plants get some of these such as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The rest relies upon the soil. By building up the soil and cycling back in organic matter, such as leaves and food scraps, valuable fertilizer is fed into the soil to help micro-organisms create more enriching soil and plants. Fondly, this process of composting is often referred to by farmers as “black gold!”

Waste doesn’t exist in an ecosystem, there is a purpose and function at each stage of life! Composting is a great regenerative practice that increases soil health, retains water, and sequesters carbon.

Please join us for a free workshop, offered both in person and online, to learn ways to implement various composting techniques into your landscape. Lori will help to explain how to survey your existing soil, how to incorporate the right type of compost into your landscape, and various technqiues that you can use in your home- regardless if you are composting on your patio or backyard!