With: Emily and Jacob Sherwood

Fee: $30.00

Size: 8+ / all ages

Turn your household waste into soil food. Care for your garden and land by diverting waste and sequestering carbon. Replace store-bought fertilizers and amendments with your own, made from kitchen waste, old clothing, leaves, cardboard, eggshells, bones, and fermented plants. We'll cover the basics of compost pile construction, making your own potting mix for seed starting, and brewing and application of fermented plant food. We'll take a look through a microscope at soil microbial life, and witness the biology that supports us from the ground up. This workshop will be hosted just down the road from the Mill, at Steppingstone Commons, a diversified community farm.

Emily and Jacob Sherwood run Steppingstone Commons, a whole-diet community farm in East Alstead. We grow proteins, produce, dairy, and grains for our neighborhood, with a focus on local calories available year-round.