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Loving the Land Zine

August 31, 2021

This month we are highlighting another great zine made in the community. The “Loving the Land” zine was made by the Youth Food Justice Group this summer and is a great resource for youth, as well as people of any age! The zine is filled to the brim with ideas for interactive activities, reflection exercises, games and more. It’s a great zine to use for guided exploration. It’s available for download here. I encourage everyone to explore it with your children, or take a look through yourself!

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Hugelkultur!

March 22, 2021

On the rainiest of rainy days, a few brave souls got together to build a sweet raised bed out of rotting wood, green garden waste and compost. Hugelkultur is German for “hill culture” and it’s a great way to use rotting wood’s capacity to store water to your advantage. The quick and dirty: lay rotting logs in a line, add brush material on top, then a layer of nitrogen-rich green materials, then soil, then compost, then soil, then plant! Of course there’s more to it than that, check out our Site Manager’s more detailed blog post about it here. Huge thanks to Vic High’s garden club who provided the site for this little hugel demo and who helped with the build!

hugelkultur — It might not look like much now, but that thing’s gonna grow some great food!

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We’re Taking Our Workshops Online!

March 20, 2020

On Saturday, March 21st, we’re offering Planning Your Year Round Veggie Garden (Paid, $20, 10am-12pm) and Worm Composting (FREE, 1-3pm) online.

This means we’re opening up lots more spaces and, depending on interest, more workshops that you can attend (and ask us questions) from home!

Link to tickets can be accessed here: http://tiny.cc/p4gllz

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CEC, COVID-19 Preparedness and Flattening the Curve

March 14, 2020

The Compost Education Centre is currently doing its part to respond to COVID 19 concerns and working to “flatten the curve” of the outbreak.

Although policies and events are evolving rapidly we are currently:

Maintaining a healthy work environment with posted information about how to stop the spread of illness.
Encouraging employees, visitors and workshop attendees to stay home when ill, having traveled to one of the countries on Canada’s advisory list or having had recent contact with a sick person.
Promoting proper hygiene (hand washing, coughing and sneezing etiquette) and social distancing among employees, visitors and workshop attendees.
Ensuring easy availability of soap and water, or alcohol-based hand sanitizer products.
Expanding and establishing policies and tools that enable employees to work from home.

You can connect to trusted information via the Office of the Provincial Health Officer or the BC Centre for Disease Control.

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Winter VS Summer Growing

August 25, 2018

Winter vs. Summer Growing

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Troubleshooting Roots in Your Compost Bin

August 10, 2018

Though composting can be a pretty basic process once you understand the fundamentals, there’s bound to be a few hiccups along the way. In this video, Site Manager and Adult Education Coordinator, Alysha Punnett, shows us how to tackle the invasion of wandering roots in a compost bin.