composting – Orcas Island Exchange

Redirecting Food Waste to Local Farms

Heather Wallace2025-07-10T06:31:17+00:00July 10, 2025|Inspiration|

Big things are sprouting from small leftovers at Orcas Island [...]

Composting Combats Climate Change

Heather Wallace2025-05-19T20:58:07+00:00May 19, 2025|News|

Are you scraping your kitchen waste into the garbage? It [...]

Environmental Club Leads Charge

Heather Wallace2025-04-14T22:18:27+00:00March 18, 2025|Inspiration|

Environmental Club Leads Charge on Composting Sustainability by Asifa Pasin [...]

Food Waste Prevention

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:00:11+00:00March 14, 2024|Inspiration|

"In the United States, about half of all food [...]

Wormapalooza

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T03:34:49+00:00May 12, 2023|Inspiration|

**The next Home Composting Events will be held on May [...]

The Compost Pile Explained

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:20:01+00:00May 4, 2020|Inspiration|

There is a difference between soil creation and a moldering [...]

First Community Compost Task Force Recap

Heather Wallace2020-03-01T02:11:55+00:00March 1, 2020|Inspiration|

The first meeting of the Community Compost Task Force was [...]

VERMI-what???

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:28:09+00:00February 1, 2020|Inspiration|

A little hardship grew to big changes in Cuba in [...]

A (not so short) History of Compost

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:32:27+00:00January 11, 2020|Inspiration|

Prehistoric farmers discovered that manure from their domesticated animals - [...]

Community Scaled Composting

Heather Wallace2025-05-21T22:07:20+00:00December 12, 2019|Inspiration|

ORS previously held two events on Orcas to introduce community [...]