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Factsheets
Curious about composting or organic food growing methods? We’ve got factsheets to cover all of your bases!
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#3 Backyard Food Waste Digester
Food waste digesters are the easiest way to compost any type of kitchen scraps, including hard to manage kitchen waste like meat, breads, dairy and processed foods. Since these food scraps often attract rodents, the enclosed, half-buried digester acts as a deterrent, keeping rodents out of your compost and away from your home.
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#9 Tumbler Composter
Tumbler composters can be a tidier way to create compost for people concerned about rodent resistance, or for those who have difficulty aerating their compost bins.
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#10 Bokashi
Learn how to use a Bokashi system, a great alternative to the Backyard Food Waste Digester.
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#11 Understanding & Addressing Soil Contamination
Soil contaminants from historical industrial activity may get into or onto our veggies and fruits and have negative health effects over the long term.
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#15 Pollinator Stewardship
Pollinator Stewardship ensures the insects and animals that pollinate much of the produce that we consume are supported.
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#16 Rainwater Harvesting
Sustainable rainwater collection and storage for use in the home and garden helps urban watersheds mimic the function of natural systems.
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#17 Understanding Compostable Plastics
Learn the different between certified compostable products and how to dispose of them accordingly.
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#18 Vermin Resistance
A roadmap to preventing rodents from entering your compost pile.
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#19 Bioremediation for Urban Gardeners
This Healing City Soils Factsheet offers ways that home-scale food gardeners, small urban farmers and community gardeners can draw on their soil and plant knowledge and skills to remediate soils that are contaminated with low to moderate soil concentrations of heavy metals.