permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <rmwj@soonernet.com>]

FoodShare Toronto is hosting an online workshops on community
composting. It's free.  How to participate is described in the article
below announcing the opportunity.

Robert Waldrop, OKC
http://www.oklahomafood.org

FoodShare presents the next in our series of online workshops-

THE REAL DIRT ON COMMUNITY COMPOSTING
Online Workshop -- September 8 - 26, 2003

This online workshop will give you the dirt on how to compost in a
community
setting. We'll cover composting basics and how to get the community
involved
- whether its your community garden, apartment building, or workplace.
Case
studies, checklists and worksheets to assess resources, composting
readings,
links and photos will help you to figure out the best composting
system for
you and your group.

Sign-up prepared to participate in online discussions about what you
know
about composting and what you'd like to learn from the facilitators
and
others in the workshop!

To pre-register send an email to info@foodshare.net
<mailto:info@foodshare.net>  with "register for The Real Dirt" in the
subject line

Overview of the online workshop

week 1
Theme - why compost? why in a community setting?
Readings and Links
Assignment/Questions - What composting is going on in your area?
municipality?
plus Everyone introduces themselves and what stage they are at in
setting up
a community composting project

week 2
Theme - how to compost (vermi, hot cool)
Readings and Links
Assignment/Questions - worksheet to assess resources

week 3
Theme - choosing the right system
Readings (case studies)
Assignment/Questions - We'll play the community compost game (assign
each
person a character to role-play and provide them with a community
composting
situation)

Workshop facilitators:

Ravenna Barker - Ravenna is a long time volunteer with FoodShare who
has a
passion for composting. She has been composting for almost as long as
she
has been talking and loves to help friends and neighbors with their
composting quandries. Ravenna is also the author of the upcoming
FoodShare
composting manual.

Mike Nevin - Mike is someone who would almost rather compost than do
anything else. He's the key person at FoodShare's Field to Table
Centre
turning 700 lbs of wet waste into beautiful compost and has be given
Food
Action Volunteer and Thank You Green Toronto awards for his composting
work.

Jennifer Reynolds - Jennifer is the Education & Outreach Coordinator
at
FoodShare. She has a background in organic agriculture, community food
security and currently works on FoodShare's Online Learning Centre
Project.