Free Event!

This event will be virtual. Links will be sent to registrants before the event starts.

Composting is a simple way for people to improve soil health and control water in their own yards. Compost amended soil absorbs more stormwater, which will reduce the amount of polluted stormwater running into our local streams. Compost will also make your plants and the rest of your landscape healthier. Join The Watershed Institute and Priscilla Ellen Hayes, who runs an educational program in Robbinsville, for a conversation about home composting. 

Ms. Hayes will explain how to compost vegetable and fruit waste from your kitchen as well as other types of organic waste, thereby diverting this waste from local landfills. She will share her favorite compost recipes, discuss how to choose or build your own composter, and address common composting challenges. Participants will have a chance to ask questions, and handouts for further reading will also be provided. If you have never composted, are thinking about it, or have some experience with composting, this workshop will be a great place to learn more.

Priscilla Hayes has been teaching composting since the 1990s, when she created educational programs for her Clean Communities and Recycling Coordinator educational program with Robbinsville. Her service with the New Jersey Conservation Partnership, and falling in love with soil health, deepened her understanding of the crucial role that composting plays in a variety of environmental problems, including dialing down climate change.