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Master Gardener Composting Program-Howard County
Municipal waste is composed of 18% yard waste and 8% food waste and 41% paper products all of which can be composted. Yard waste amounts to nearly 230 pounds and food waste another 100 pounds per person per year. Disposing of yard waste in landfills is expensive and environmentally unsound. Therefore, composting by Howard County residents is an important and environmentally significant project/topic on which to focus Master Gardener and community educational programs.
The educational endeavor begins by incorporating composting and vermicomposting classes in the Master Gardener training. Demonstration sites and compost/vermicompost information are incorporated into the Howard County Public School System Elementary Science curriculum. The curriculum was created by the M.G.’s for use in the Howard County Public School System Elementary Science program.
For more information, contact Robin Hessey
Last updated: 04/8/2009
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