Food Waste and Composting For Businesses in the CRD

Are you a business owner or employee of a business in the Capital Regional District on Vancouver Island that creates a lot of unavoidable or avoidable food waste (think - vegetable trimmings, spent coffee grounds, past due food, plate scrapings, employee lunch time waste etc.)? Do you have a good system of avoiding this food waste or composting the unavoidable food waste? If you're curious about these questions - attend this free webinar to learn more from the Compost Education Centre about what is possible at your business. Learn the possibilities for:

• Avoiding food waste in the first place
• How to process all sorts of food waste in a sustainable, affordable, responsible way
• Explore different options for onsite, and offsite composting
• Saving money
• And understand why it all matters

About the Facilitator:

Kayla brings nearly 10 years of experience stewarding the Compost Education Centre demonstration gardens and composting systems, and she is the curator and main educator of the Adult Education Program. She has consulted with many different groups, businesses and individuals about what composting system is right for them. She can be found growing seedlings for plant sales, working with volunteers to keep gardens healthy, flipping hot compost, arranging expert instructors to teach workshops, or out in the community teaching about soil health, organic gardening, and Do-It-Yourself tasks that increase our climate resilience. Kayla holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, and she continued on with practical hands-on permaculture training, gardening and farming internships in various places on Turtle Island and beyond.

About this webinar:

This workshop will be hosted live online via Microsoft Teams, integrated with Eventbrite. You will get a link to the Teams meeting upon registering for the event. You will need to log into Eventbrite to access the online link.

You must pre-register for this event. You can obtain a free ticket through Eventbrite. You can also register for the event by calling our office at 250 386 9676 or via email by contacting office@compost.bc.ca

Please be in touch if you are no longer able to attend but hold a ticket so we can make your space available to someone else.

About the organization

The Compost Education Centre is located on unceded and occupied Indigenous territories, the land of the Lekwungen people— specifically the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. These nations are two of many, made up of individuals who have lived within the porous boundaries of what is considered Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Territory (Vancouver Island) since time immemorial. At the CEC we seek to respect, honour and continually grow our own understandings of Indigenous rights and history, and to fulfill our responsibilities as settlers, who live and work directly with the land and its complex, vital ecologies and our diverse, evolving communities.

Compost Education Centre memberships get you free workshops, discounts at garden centres around town and more great perks! Sign up or learn more on our website.

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