On Saturday October 17 from 9 to 10:30 Vermicomposting Workshop in Muskogee sponsored by the Friends of Honor Heights Park Association
Kitchen waste takes up 30% of the landfill according to the experts. A compost pile and a worm composting bin or two would eliminate that burden on landfills. Friends of Honor Heights Park is sponsoring a worm composting workshop Saturday, October 17 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Garden Education Room at Muskogee's Honor Heights Park Learn how to improve your garden while helping the Earth. Worm composting reduces landfill and provides non-chemical fertilizer for growing flowers, vegetables and herbs. Participants should bring a plastic container 1 to 3 feet tall and 2 feet long to hold your worms, their food and shredded newspaper bedding. We will drill holes in your container and provide enough red wriggler worms to start a home system. In addition to materials on home vermicomposting , Bruce Edwards, Urban Harvest Director for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, will teach commercial worm composting. Vermicomposting helps keep kitchen waste out of the landfills. The worksho...