Meet the Farmers
April 17, 2004 - Garden Patch
Ask What You Can Do for Austin - Composting Workshop
11 a.m. to noon in Republic Square Park in the Garden Patch
Forty percent of our waste stream (garbage and lawn waste) can be diverted from the landfill. It can be made into a wonderful sweet smelling, chocolate brown, nutritious soil amendment teeming with life and vitality - Compost. It's easy, fun, and good for our soil and plants. It's a way we personally can help Mother Nature add back topsoil and restore our environment. Come and see a compost pile be completed in 30 to 40 minutes on site at the Austin Farmers' Market, get your questions answered, and go home with the simple instruction sheet.
The compost workshop is presented by Dick Pierce, a former board member of Sustainable Food Center (SFC). He is a 5-year resident of Austin and passionately devoted to improving our environment, living more sustainably, and growing more of our own food.
Dick also teaches Permaculture which is all about designing human systems that mimic and help nature, give back, and use/reuse local resources. He is also an Austin Master Gardener, Master Naturalist, Master Composter, and a landscape designer.
posted April 13, 2004 | permanent link to this article
){kind=link}