“Turn Your Garbage to Gold,” an Outdoor Workshop on Composting

At 10 a.m. Saturday, March 8, the Piedmont Master Gardeners will present "Turn Your Garbage to Gold," a free outdoor workshop on composting. It will be held at the compost demonstration site in the Bread & Roses Gardens at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1118 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville. Space is limited. Register at https://piedmontmastergardeners.org/events/ to reserve your place in the class.

Registration closes at 5 p.m. March 7 or when the class is full. The workshop will showcase a range of techniques for turning household waste such as food scraps, yard trimmings, uncoated paper, cardboard, and wood waste into the ideal soil amendment for the yard and garden. It will also show how all households, large and small, can keep compostable waste out of landfills. When added to a landfill, food scraps decompose anaerobically (without oxygen) and release methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. When composted, food scraps contribute to healthy soil and plants and to cleaner water and air.