The Compost Education Center
The Compost Education Center (CEC) of Project Grow is charged with managing two composting-related activities, that of producing compost, and using this process for educational purposes - learning how to compost. This mission is based on the appreciation that composting is essential to community gardening. Our main task is to encourage all community garden sites to adopt a standard, manageable composting system. Read more...
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Community Partners and Advisors
Jesse Raudenbush of Starr Valley Farms
Acknowledgments
Thank you John Fingerle of Fingerle Lumber for graciously donating a portion of the lumber for the new compost bin and for cutting the lumber for free.
Thank you to three generous anonymous donors for donating the cost of the materials for the 3-bin wooden compost bins now designated as Pile #1, Pile #2 and Pile #3; another donor for all the concrete hollow blocks used in the concrete bins designated as Incoming Browns and Incoming Greens and Finished Compost; and another anonymous donor for donating the cost of the materials for the first vermiculture bin. We thank Joet Reoma for soliciting the anonymous donors.
Special thanks to Dawn Johnston for donating two bottles of olive and canola oil to treat the untreated wood used in the compost bins; and to Julian Carpenter and Alexi Ernstoff for the carpentry work in assembling the first vermiculture bin. Another special thanks to Ellen Miller for painting the signs on the composting bins, and finally to Chad Dibble, Joseph Kim and Dawn Jonston, and Jessica Stephens for assembling and mounting the hot compost bins.
A big thanks to Deiatra Eudy for donating the red worms for the vermicomposting bin.
