Let Compost Happen: Setting up an effective at-home system

Date: Saturday, July 27th, 10:30-11:30AM.

Location: Jones Library, 43 Amity St, Amherst

To register, send an email to : [email protected]

Just because food is not consumed, doesn’t mean it is waste! Instead, food scraps should enter a biological system to decompose naturally, nourish myriad organisms as it breaks down, and return to the earth as rich organic material. We call this process “composting”, but in essence it is simply the cycle of life. That which grows, shall return to the earth.   

With the proper system in place, composting at home can be an easy and rewarding experience that converts your food scraps and garden material into a valuable fertilizer, while keeping biological material from entering landfills and producing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.   

In this residential composting workshop, Matthew Karas, Conservation Program Manager for the Hampden-Hampshire Conservation District, will discuss the basics of at-home composting, the different types of systems that are available, and what to do with your finished compost.