Category: Workshop

Growing Indoor Microgreens and Sprouts

November 4, 2026

Do you wish you had a mini garden all winter long to harvest from right in your kitchen? You can! Come learn the ins and outs of microgreen growing and sprouting in your home so that you can have nutrient dense greens all year round, rain or shine, cold or hot.

We’ll cover:

• helpful equipment
• difference between microgreens & sprouts
• how to grow these tender greens (seed selection, timing, care)
• nutrition benefits
• troubleshooting

Since the equipment and skills are similar, we’ll also spend some time learning the specifics of how to grow healthy vegetable seedlings for your garden.

Posted in Adult Education, Workshop

Food Preservation Basics (onsite)

November 4, 2026

Come learn the basics of how to preserve the abundance from your garden or local farmers. We will learn the basics of dehydrating making use of the Compost Education Centre’s two solar dryers (which are available for loan!) We’ll also cover freezing, storing, and hot water bath canning. Preserving foods is not only a delicious way to taste summer in the dark rainy days of winter, but it is also an act of sustainability and creates more security in the food system.

Posted in Adult Education, Workshop

Seedling Starting

November 4, 2026

Learn simple techniques for analysing your soil quality through this hands-on workshop

We’ll measure the physical and biological quality of soil using the following practical tools you can also use at home:

• Soil texture test
• Soil aggregation test (slake test)
• Water infiltration rate
• Earthworm count
• Rizosheath assessment
• Nodulation of legumes

Knowing these details can help inform next steps for stewarding your soil, and provide important baseline information for your gardening journey.

Posted in Adult Education, Workshop

Practical Tools for Measuring Soil Health

November 4, 2026

Learn simple techniques for analysing your soil quality through this hands-on workshop

We’ll measure the physical and biological quality of soil using the following practical tools you can also use at home:

• Soil texture test
• Soil aggregation test (slake test)
• Water infiltration rate
• Earthworm count
• Rizosheath assessment
• Nodulation of legumes

Knowing these details can help inform next steps for stewarding your soil, and provide important baseline information for your gardening journey.

Posted in Adult Education, Workshop

Composting for Businesses

November 4, 2026

Join us for an eye-opening discussion on how businesses can tackle food waste and composting practices! 

Are you a business owner or employee of a business in the Capital Regional District on Vancouver Island that creates a lot of unavoidable or avoidable food waste (think – vegetable trimmings, spent coffee grounds, past due food, plate scrapings, employee lunch time waste etc.)? Do you have a good system of avoiding this food waste or composting the unavoidable food waste? If you’re curious about these questions – attend this free webinar to learn more from the Compost Education Centre about what is possible at your business. Learn the possibilities for: 

• Avoiding food waste in the first place 

• How to process all sorts of food waste in a sustainable, affordable, responsible way 

• Explore different options for onsite, and offsite composting 

• Saving money 

• And understand why it all matters 

Posted in Adult Education, Workshop

Little Wrigglers Harvest (Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten) 

December 18, 2024

In this follow-up workshop to Little Wrigglers at Work, we will re-cap and build on the knowledge from the previous workshop and harvest all the incredible worm castings from your bin. 

Posted in Child & Youth Workshop, Workshop

Little Site Tour (Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten) 

December 18, 2024

Let us take you around the CEC gardens for a tour involving sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste! Explore the different ways that plants grow and get introduced to the world of compost. 

Posted in Child & Youth Workshop, Workshop

Little Spectacular Seeds (Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten) 

December 18, 2024

Uncover the magic of how seeds travel and grow. Participants will plant their own seeds in egg cartons to take home or grow in the classroom. 

Posted in Child & Youth Workshop, Workshop

Little Wrigglers at Work (Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten) 

December 18, 2024

Learn about the lives of worms, their role in composting, and how to set up a worm composting bin for your class.  

Posted in Child & Youth Workshop, WorkshopTagged Site Tour

Little Corey’s Compost Story (Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten) 

December 18, 2024

Meet Corey the Apple Core and his friends as we discover what compost is all about! 

Posted in Child & Youth Workshop, Workshop