Learn to grow the very best food!

Learn how to grow nutrient-dense, delicious food!

Prerequisite: complete the Backyard Composter and Vermi-Composter courses.

You’ll learn additional compost strategies, and how you can apply these to assist residents, businesses, schools, dog mushers, food services, farmers, stable managers, and organizations to develop scaled-up compost operations. We’re asking you to help educate others.

We’ll review basics and then discover how to:

• Blend and compost a wider variety of feedstocks for proper C:N ratios

• Manage and trouble-shoot piles for moisture, temperature, aeration, & odor

• Process larger volumes of compost with static & thermal pile methods.

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully start & manage a worm bin

Worm away your food waste

Avoid flies & stench

Know where to apply finished vermi-compost

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully compost yard wastes, manures, & food wastes

Remedy a pile that’s too hot, too slow, or too stinky

Produce a matured, high-quality product for gardens & landscapes

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully start & manage a worm bin

Worm away your food waste

Avoid flies & stench

Know where to apply finished vermi-compost

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully compost yard wastes, manures, & food wastes

Remedy a pile that’s too hot, too slow, or too stinky

Produce a matured, high-quality product for gardens & landscapes

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully compost yard wastes, manures, & food wastes

Remedy a pile that’s too hot, too slow, or too stinky

Produce a matured, high-quality product for gardens & landscapes

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully compost yard wastes, manures, & food wastes

Remedy a pile that’s too hot, too slow, or too stinky

Produce a matured, high-quality product for gardens & landscapes

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully start & manage a worm bin

Worm away your food waste

Avoid flies & stench

Know where to apply finished vermi-compost

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully compost yard wastes, manures, & food wastes

Remedy a pile that’s too hot, too slow, or too stinky

Produce a matured, high-quality product for gardens & landscapes

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully start & manage a worm bin

Worm away your food waste

Avoid flies & stench

Know where to apply finished vermi-compost

You’ll learn how to:

Successfully start & manage a worm bin

Worm away your food waste

Avoid flies & stench

Know where to apply finished vermi-compost

Oh, oh…the farther into summer, the more sick spots you start to see on green leaves! Yikes! Disease has struck, infecting your tomatoes, roses, perennials.

Get prepared now with a toolbox of effective tactics—that won’t murder your song birds, toddlers, or living soil.

Come learn about & use this better-than-compost that lasts for centuries! (Ellen presents at MatSu Master Gardener meeting.) Free— all are welcome.

Compost is wonderful food for your plants, microbes, and garden soil. But it’s difficult to make enough compost, and it’s not the only way to enrich your growing system.

Come learn other successful ways to build your humus to develop beautiful soil, heighten productivity, & drought-proof your garden.

With illustrated stories, we’ll romp through biochar, cover crops, and mulching tips & tricks.