Don’t miss our second workshop in our “Grow a Gardener” workshop series this Thursday September 29 at 5pm. The event will be hosted in the Eucalyptus Grove on the UCSB campus. This second workshop “Gardening at Home” will introduce home gardening and the importance of local food production featuring Oscar Carmona of Healing Grounds Nursery.
FREE FOOD!
FREE ADMISSION!
FALL PLANT SEEDING AND GIVEAWAY!
FREE CASTINGS TO UCSB STUDENTS!
Casting and Tea will also be sold at the rate of $1/lb of casting and $5/gallon of tea. BYOC (Bring Your Own Containers)
Don’t miss the “Grow a Gardener” workshop series Grow a Salad hands on workshop with Fairview Garden’s Shawn McMahon.
FREE to UCSB student body and community members.
We will be selling castings and tea at the event
$1/Ib castings, $5/gallon tea. (BYOC bring your own containers)
Department of Public Worms is moving to expand its collection to serve the Isla Vista Housing Co-Ops. We are thrilled to be working with the great people who run and live in the co-ops!
Stay tuned for more details.
-DPW Team, AS Recycling
The other winner from the “Compost Cycle” drawing contest, part of our Spring Vermicompost and Gardening Workshop on May 25th. Nice work!
Winter Workshop Slides
Hey composters!
We’ve gotten a few emails of people interested in getting a copy of our workshop slides so you can use them for reference. If you would like the slides shoot us an email: ucsbcompost@gmail.com, we will be glad to send them out to you!
Cheers,
DPW
Winning drawing from the “Day in the Life of a Worm” drawing contest - DPW Winter 11 Workshop, IV Theatre 2.24.11
Drawing by Herschel Allen
Composting 101 for Citydwellers! (+++CLICK HERE+++) →
Here is an in-depth guide to composting in an urban setting right in your own home from grist.com! This 7-page article will tell you all the basics of urban composting including different methods, what you can and cannot put into your worm bins, and how to maintain it as well as the relevance of composting to our food system.
Read, enjoy, compost!
Changes!
Updates: DPW has some exciting news. We will soon be rebuilding and adding to our worm bins both in People’s Park and in the Eucalyptus Grove!
Currently funding and bureaucracy are main issues with our ambitions of getting more efficient, larger, and longer-lasting worm bins. But never fear, we will make it happen! Keep an eye on People’s Park to see these changes, hopefully by this coming school year. In the meantime, if you have compost from home you would like to give to us, drop it in the compost bin in People’s Park (on the right side)!
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