Submitted by The Exchange/Orcas Recycling Services.

The Exchange is sponsoring another round of workshops that will help you turn your household food waste into dark, rich compost for your garden!

On Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27, our resident soil expert Nancy Schafer will host home composting classes at the Orcas Grange Hall.

This seminar focuses on containerized home composting, and attendees will all leave class with a FreeGarden EARTH compost bin with a locking lid, harvesting door, rodent-proof bottom screen and anchoring pins. The class fee is $65.

Even more exciting, on Oct. 10 and 11, Schafer will host “Wormapalooza,” a class on vermiculture — or how to compost at home using worms! The class is free, but worm bins, bedding and the worms themselves will be available for purchase at the event.

To sign up for our containerized home composting classes, or for Wormapalooza, visit our website at www.exchangeorcas.org.