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Welcome to the 37th annual California Small Farm Conference, a week-long event featuring over 40 online workshops as well as a dozen in-person gatherings around the state. Whether you’re a beginning farmer or a seasoned grower, a local food advocate or a farmers market manager, you’ll find something here for you. This year’s theme, "Rooted in Place", honors the vital relationship between farmers, communities and the land they steward.

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Small-Scale Composting: Getting Started, Growing, and Building a Network
Monday February 24, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am PST
Online
Open Zoom

Composting and compost use is an effective and scalable climate change solution that has a multitude of environmental and societal benefits, especially when implemented at community gardens and small farms. Despite state mandates for organic waste diversion from landfills to meet climate goals, adoption of composting in the state at community scale remains low and expansion of industrial composting can exacerbate air quality problems and greenhouse gas emissions. We formed a partnership among community organizations and researchers to meet this need. Our mission is to establish affordable, accessible, and scalable community-level composting knowledge and practices to transform farm and food waste into compost to grow nutritious food, mitigate climate change, and advance social justice in the San Joaquin Valley. In this workshop, we share knowledge gained and lessons learned through our partnership. We hope to equip participants of this workshop with fundamental knowledge of the benefits of composting at this scale, different models of small-scale composting, the human and natural resources needed to compost, and the tools to start community-scale composting projects and partnerships.

Spanish interpretation will be provided/included in this workshop presentation.
Organizer
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Yaynicut Franco

Director of Culture and Land Stewardship, Wukchumni Tribe
Speakers
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Eric Wellington

compost specialist, Foodlink for Tulare County
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Michael Rodriguez

University of California, Merced
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Rocio Perez

Asistente Agricola, Central California Environmental Justice Network
Cuidando a nuestro medio ambiente.
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Monday February 24, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am PST
Online
  Organics

Attendees (148)


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