BLOOMINGTON – Let’s get home composting – your trash can sure smell, especially in the warm months, if you don’t compost.
What’s composting? It’s a process of turning your food waste into fertile soil, right on your own property. Find out the what, where, why, and how of this process, at the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District’s (District) FREE Composting 101 workshop on Saturday, June 10 from 9:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
Also, learn what the concern is about an invasive Asian species of worms called “Jumping Worms.” These worms have been found in gardens.
In collaboration with this event, Monroe County Identify and Reduce Invasive Species (MC-IRIS) will demonstrate how you can determine if jumping worms are in your garden, what to do, and who to report them to.
Register for the free workshop by emailing Elisa Pokral at epokral@mcswmd.org or calling 812-349-2866 at ext. 2020.
The District’s Community Outreach Coordinator Elisa Pokral will present Composting 101 and MC-IRIS Volunteer Ann Kammon, will present on jumping worms. Kammon is the chair of the MC-IRIS native plant sale this year which will be in September.
“In life, you have certain revelations about yourself – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual,” said Pokral. “These revelations can be big, little, or in-between. If you listen to them and act mindfully, those revelations can change your life. The magic of composting is one of those revelations. Once you implement daily best management earth stewardship practices like composting, those changes do change you, your community, and the world. When you establish composting as a daily routine, you will wonder why you didn’t incorporate it into your routine earlier.”
“There’s so much going on underneath our feet and life in the ground is also something we must protect,” Pokral added.
She explains that humans are very powerful in preventing pollution and waste. However, humans often think they are the apex species but science tells us otherwise.
The late retired Harvard biologist Edward Wilson, the ‘Darwin of the 21st century’ says, “If humans were to disappear, the rest of life would flourish, as a result. If on the other hand,
