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Free Composting Workshops For Millbrae Gardeners
This workshop primarily focuses on hot pile composting, which works best if you have a backyard.
July 15, 2020
Millbrae gardeners! Are you looking for ways to improve your garden and help your plants grow? If so, then consider composting your food scraps and yard waste, and turning them into nutrient rich fertilizer for your garden and plants.
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San Mateo County will be hosting two online workshops that will teach you how to create composting and vermicomposting bins to help your garden and plants thrive.
Home Composting Workshop - ONLINE
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Join this workshop to learn why and how to build a backyard compost pile. After attending this workshop, you'll receive significant discounts on backyard composting bins. This workshop primarily focuses on hot pile composting, which works best if you have a backyard. If you don't have a backyard, check out our vermicomposting workshop - details in the next section, below!
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2020
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Zoom virtual meeting
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/home-composting-workshop-san-mateo-county-tickets-111877129506.
Vermicomposting Workshop - ONLINE
Learn about the wonderful world of composting with worms! This workshop covers the basics of why composting is important, and how to start and maintain a vermicomposting system at home. After attending this workshop, you'll receive significant discounts on vermicomposting bins. Vermicomposting is a great home composting solution for people without a backyard space, because you can site your worm farm inside your home or on a balcony. It's also great for anyone interested in how living worms can produce great compost!
Date: Saturday, August 29, 2020
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Zoom virtual meeting
Register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vermicomposting-workshop-san-mateo-county-tickets-111889392184.
For more information about composting, please visit https://www.smcsustainability.org/waste-reduction/composting/.
This press release was produced by the City of Millbrae. The views expressed here are the author’s own.