As long as we're growing and eating fruits and veggies, we're creating lots of kitchen scraps and plant debris that has to be dealt with. Why toss that material into our green waste bins when we can compost it instead? Compost is a super affordable (mostly free) and incredibly useful soil amendment, adding organic matter and increasing the biological activity in our soil. It also helps to retain moisture if used as a top dressing (mulch) and improves soil structure.
This workshop will help you understand the science behind great compost and the ingredients needed to make a healthy, productive compost pile. Topics will also include building, watering, turning, and troubleshooting your compost pile, and a review of different composting methods so that you can build a pile that matches your lifestyle, space, and gardening needs. We have several different types of tumbling composters on-site for you to check out, too.
Now's your chance to come learn the basics of making your own "black gold" at home and maybe share some of your own successes or challenges you've faced composting in the past. Each student will get to handle, smell, sift, and compare some amazing "finished compost" from Marybeth's home garden and from our Green Team Farm.
615 E 800 S
Salt Lake City,
Workshop Fee | |
Individual | $20.00 |
Community Gardener | $5.00 |
Community Garden | |
1st Unitarian Church Garden | |
4th East Garden | |
9-Line Community Garden | |
Bonneville Elementary Garden | |
Box Elder Community Garden | |
Cannon Greens Community Garden | |
Canyon Rim Community Garden | |
Creekside Community Garden | |
Dancing Moose Communtiy Garden | |
Emerson Elementary Garden | |
Fairpark Community Garden | |
Garden of Wheadon (Draper) | |
FFC Teaching Garden | |
Gateway Community Garden | |
Grateful Tomato Garden | |
Green Street Farm | |
Harmony Park Community Garden | |
Hillcrest High Student Garden | |
Historic Sandy Community Garden | |
Liberty Wells Community Garden | |
Magna Community Garden | |
The McGillis School Garden | |
New Roots Farm | |
The Plot | |
Popperton Plots | |
Rose Park Community Garden | |
Rowland Hall Steiner Campus Community Garden | |
SLC Veggie Swap | |
Unity Gardens (Sorensen) | |
SLCC Community Gardens | |
University of Utah Edible Campus Gardens | |
Vegetable Mining Operation | |
Sugarhouse Garden | |
Richmond Park | |
I want to make a tax-deductible donation to Wasatch Community Gardens! | $1.00 |