Compost: From Garbage to Garden

The Northern Rhode Island Conservation District is conducting a free workshop to discuss composting on Friday April 23rd at 11:00 at the District office, which is located at 17 Smith Avenue in Greenville. Sejal Lanterman, of the URI Master Composter & Recycler Program, will conduct the workshop and will give you all the basic information needed to start and maintain a compost bin. The lecture/workshop is roughly an hour and a half. Come learn about how you could be turning all of your food scraps as well as leaf and yard waste into a valuable soil amendment by composting. Various topics will be discussed in this workshop including; the benefits of composting, the do’s and don’ts, how to build and maintain a compost bin, as well as composting with worms!

Pre-registration is required. Call to reserve your seat today: (401) 949-1480.