Vermicomposting 101

Program Type:

Lifelong Learning, Green Living, One Book Sarasota, Special Events

Age Group:

Teens (13 to 18 years), Adults, Seniors
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Details

Did you know you can feed worms your kitchen vegetable scraps and they will turn it into rich, nutrient dense black compost gold?

UF/IFAS Extension Agent: Randy Penn, Sarasota County Extension, is hosting the workshop on how to compost with WORMS!

Participants will learn the following:

  • What is vermicompost?
  • The benefits of worm composting and recycling food waste
  • How to build a worm bin
  • How to take care of a worm bin
  • Vermicomposting real-life examples

This 90-minute workshop blends indoor lessons with outdoor, hands-on activities in a compost demonstration area, and includes live demonstrations on the correct way to start composting food.

 

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UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County provides practical education you can trust, to help people, businesses and communities solve problems, develop skills and build a better future. This is a partnership between the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Sarasota County.

This is part of our One Book One Community program, whose selection for 2022 is “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba.