Learn How to Compost at the [1] Dover Cassily Community Garden, June 5 at 3pm

Thinking about making use of your food scraps at home or business? Come learn about back yard composting–why it’s important, how it benefits the environment and your wallet, how to do it, and how to use the finished product.

This workshop will be held on Saturday, June 5 at 3:00pm at the Dover Cassily Community Garden. Eva Christensen, owner of locally produced Earthtenders organic compost, will lead the workshop. Eva Christensen is the 2008 winner of the national H. Clark Gregory Award for grassroots efforts, and serves as a consultant for soil and agriculture projects with USAID, USDA, USEPA and the US Composting Council. Eva has kindly donated several yards of compost to the DCCG each of the last two years.

Registration is not required. Please contact EriC Kelsey for more information (603 438 4992). Donations to assist the Dover Cassily Community Garden’s efforts toward building stronger communities are welcome!

To get to the garden: From the 4-way stop of Chestnut St. and Sixth Street (north of the train station), go west on Sixth St. about 1/2 mile. Turn left on Hillside Dr. Down the hill you’ll see a dirt parking lot on the right with our green shed in the back. You can park anywhere in the lot. Signs direct you down a trail through the woods to a large 3-acre field where the garden resides. It’s a beautiful piece of land surrounded by forest with trails along the Cocheco River.