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2015 Master Composter Training
February 6, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
free
Want to reduce your food waste and make it a resource?
Create your own soil amendment for your garden?
Learn how composting can lower our carbon footprint?
Join Master Composters! This 4 session training includes informative guest speakers, a tour of local composting systems and presents in depth information, research and visual aids on topics such as:
- Important factors for composting
- Different types of compost systems
- The soil food web
- Cultivating healthy soils through organic soil amendments
- The impact of compost on the environment via carbon sequestration and waste reduction
- Vermicomposting
At the end of 4 weeks, trainees are certified as Master Composters, thus being compost ambassadors for the Clallam County community. Trainees are encouraged to contribute 12 volunteer hours within a year of graduation to “pay back” their free training.