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By East County News Service
October 9, 2024 (San Diego) -- The County of San Diego is offering free webinars in November to help live and grow sustainably, in partnership with Solana Center and the Water Conservation Garden.
Food scraps produce harmful greenhouse gases in a landfill and little to none in a compost pile.
Solana Center’s knowledgeable speakers will present practical solutions for reducing food waste in your home, and discuss how incorporating these practices into your daily life can be a great way to help the environment and save money. You have the power to reduce food waste by making small changes to your daily life and habits.
Join to learn:
• Practical and successful methods to prevent food waste in your own kitchen
• How to divert food waste from the landfill
• Tips for buying only what you need, eating what you buy, and avoiding throwing away food.
• Where and how food is being wasted in the U.S. and around the world
• The social, environmental, and economic impacts of food waste
Questions?
Phone: (760) 436-7986 ext. 700
Email: info@solanacenter.org
Made possible through generous funding by the County of San Diego.
Learn how you can save money and reduce pests by composting your livestock manure! Composting manure also helps protect your local watershed, prevents pollution in waterways, and produces a fantastic soil amendment. Composting is easy and inexpensive and can help reduce flies, odors, and waterway contamination. Using composted manure on your garden and landscaping will also help enrich your soil and conserve water.
This webinar will cover:
- The basics & benefits of composting
- How to incorporate manure into compost piles
- Scaling up or down compost pile size
- Local regulations and requirements
- Preventing odors and flies; and
- Protecting local water sources
Benefits of manure composting:
- Saves water and money (fewer purchased amendments)
- Increases soil health and biodiversity
- Prevents flies and odors; and
- Protects waterways
Funded by the County of San Diego.
Vermicomposting (worm composting) has benefits for everyone, whether you want to divert kitchen scraps from the landfill, compost in small spaces, or create a natural fertilizer for your plants. Join us at the lovely Water Conservation Garden to learn how to start and maintain a happy home for red wiggler worms.
All workshop attendees will have free entry into the Garden, which can be explored following the workshop. All pre-registered attendees who are residents of unincorporated San Diego County can receive a free kitchen scraps container.
In this workshop, we will cover:
- Benefits of composting with worms
- Tools, materials, and steps to start a vermicompost bin
- How to feed your worms and which foods are suitable
- Troubleshooting and maintaining your worm bin
- Harvesting and using finished castings
Vermicomposting benefits for your garden and living a greener life include:
- Savings on purchased worm castings and soil amendments
- Fewer food scraps heading to landfills
- Increased soil health & a more robust soil microbiome
- Increased water retention in soil
This workshop is sponsored by the County of San Diego.
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