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Celebrate Compost Awareness Week

Welcome to International Compost Awareness Week, a time to step back and ponder the many gifts we enjoy by facilitating the “law of return” of essential organic matter and valuable nutrients, rescued from wasteful sequestration and put into active service growing vegetables, beautifying landscapes, and improving water quality and erosion control.

Opportunities to celebrate this important annual calendar marker abound, beginning with the quiet ritual of thousands of Milwaukee residents contributing to their backyard compost bins or local community compost sites. Talk to your friends, neighbors, and coworkers about the myriad benefits of compost. A great way to help us proselytize on behalf of the cause is by patronizing the upcoming “truck sale” hosted by the City of Milwaukee on May 16 in the parking lot east of the Wilson Park Senior Center at 2601 W. Howard Avenue.

The U.S. Composting Council is promoting compost-based events across the country and reprising its valuable toolkit, available for download and dissemination.

The Kompost Kids will be celebrating locally all this month and next with public turnings and exciting site building projects. Check back soon for more details on the latter, but here’s a rundown of upcoming events:

  • May 16 – Compost turning and education at Scooter Foundation, off Buffum and Wright in River West, at 12 p.m.
  • May 24 – Work day and demonstration site build-out at 1980 S. Marina Dr. in Bay View: building garden beds, clearing land, raising a shed, building compost bins, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
  • June 13 – Compost turning and work day at 1980 S. Marina Dr. at 12 p.m.
  • June 20 – Compost turning and education at Scooter Foundation, off Buffum and Wright in River West, at 12 p.m.
  • June 27 – Compost turning and education at Bay View Hide House, off Burrell and Deer, at 12 p.m.

Hope to see you there!



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