Home Composting Events
Be part of the solution – prevent climate changing methane at the landfill. Compost your kitchen, yard, and garden waste to enrich our soils. Keep and use these valuable resources on the island.
We will be offering TWO Home Composting events on October 4th and October 5th from 5pm – 6:30pm. Tickets for this event will be available soon!
Space and bins are limited.
The building is not heated, please dress appropriately. (or this could go out with the reminder email a few days before the event.
Wormapalooza! Coming soon…
Worm composting is one of the best ways to reduce your personal food waste, contribute to helping climate change, and to enrich the soil in that beautiful garden of yours.
Wormapalooza is an annual event where we teach you the whys and how’s of worm composting.
Here’s what you’ll learn at Wormapalooza:
- How to set up different types of worm bins, choose the right type of worm bin and how to keep worms happy and healthy
- How to convert kitchen and garden scraps into worm castings, the coveted and potent black gold of compost
- How to get started with this interesting and fun adventure – from indoor or outdoor bins to simple, inexpensive or more involved system
Micro-plastic Awareness and Beach Clean-Ups!
This summer the Exchange hosted a series of micro-plastic beach clean ups at the Eastsound Waterfront Park. Our goals for these beach clean-ups were to bring awareness to the growing problem we are facing with microplastics, to help educate our community on ways they can stop using plastic in their everyday lives, and to start cleaning up the overwhelming amount of microplastics that cover The Eastsound Waterfront Park beach.
We found nurdles, a variety of sizes of plastic in all colors, and hard and soft plastic. We discovered layers of plastic where it appears the plastic is breaking into smaller particles, leading one participant to recommend targeting larger plastic first on an ongoing basis to prevent future breaking down. We discovered that truly removing all the plastic from a 2 foot square area would take many, many hours. Thank you to all who participated at these clean-ups.
Stay tuned for future beach clean ups!