Sustainable Carolina holds composting how-to
Food scraps taken from all around campus end up in the West Quad Carolina Community Garden. There, the scraps are used to make compost for the plants.
Sustainable Carolina hosted a composting workshop on Monday evening, showing students how to use different food scraps to make compost to use as fertilizer. The group gets food waste from some of the cafeterias around campus and leaves from the maintenance department. The compost piles are divided into layers, green (the food) and brown (the leaves). As it decomposes, the piles are turned and watered.
Matt Kipp, a permacultural designer says the composting is “a dirty job, but someone has to do it.”