Backyard Composting
Topics
- Five control factors of a compost pile (SMART)
- Do’s and Don’ts of composting
- Backyard, lasagna, and other composting techniques
- Mulching, grass-cycling, leaf mold, and Hugelkultur
Activities
- Building a pile 8 Min. Video - Making Compost from Coffee and Paper
Think Pair Share
- How can you gather and store composting greens and browns
- Scale up to 3’x3’x3’ bin, how many 5 gallon buckets of greens and browns
Resources
Homework
Email pete.dubois@clark.wa.gov with the following:
- The number of Earths Needed “if everyone lived like you” from: https://www.footprintnetwork.org/
- Any photos of any of your compost systems (compost bins, heaps/piles, worms bins)
- How you manage your food scraps currently (fill out table below) - should add up to 100%
On average please assign a percentage to where your food scraps go | |
% in Garbage
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% in Curbside Organics Green Cart (Available in Cities of Vancouver & Ridgefield) | |
% on-site: e.g. compost bin, worm bin, bokashi, etc. | |
% down garbage disposal | |
% other |