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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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#1 Backyard Composting
Backyard composting is a way to recycle plants, animals, and other organisms back into the soil.
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#2 Vermicomposting
Vermicomposting, or worm composting is an easy process that requires only a few simple components: some red wriggler worms, a ventilated bin, bedding for the worms to live in, food for the worms, and some time to harvest their nutrient rich castings.
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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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#4 Hot Composting
Hot composting is an effective way to make large quantities of compost, in as little as 3 months.
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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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#12 Best Practices for Healthy Urban Gardens
Learn how to avoid contamination of your fruits and veggies.
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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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#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.
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#26 Multi-Family Dwelling Composting Options
Learn about ways to divert organic matter from the landfill and recycle this nutrient-rich resource in an on-site small-scale composting device.