SACS and WMS
Sustainable Agriculture in Communities Society and Waste Management Society have established a partnership to increase awareness of composting and composting techniques.
Goal:
Create a high-efficiency, low tech composting system which functions as a demonstration site for workshops with students, faculty, and the surrounding community.
Objectives:
- Provide members of SACS and WMS with basic and advanced composting knowledge.
- Produce as much high-quality compost as possible for use in the campus garden.
- Create lasting relationships between SACS and WMS.
Methods:
- Establish a SACS liaison for composting.
- Spend a work-day re-vamping the compost bins, collecting carbon materials, and building a rickshaw for transfer of food waste from DeBot. (SACS and WMS)
- Establish maintenance schedules in a way that allows anyone and everyone interested in getting their hands dirty compost time.
- Begin a log book. All data (time of turning, who performed, what materials were added...) should be recorded.
- Compost piles will be built and turned weekly (more if schedules allow).
- After the fifth week (longer in winter) finished compost will be screened and stored appropriately.
Possibilities:
- Winter composting in the hoophouse
- Cold frames, hot frames, and solar hot frames
- Campus Compost Commission
- Fund-raiser workshops
- Research opportunities
