Event: Apr 25, 2015

Green Mountain Compost is throwing a party!

A party for compost? Yep! Those restless compost microbes can be quite the party animals. They’ve been waiting for winter’s end, for the moment when they can start doing what they do best: Urging your garden to grow. Seventy squintillion soil-building, plant-boosting microbes can’t be wrong, so we’re throwing a party for you and all the plants just waiting for a chance to reach for the sun!

WHEN: Saturday, April 25, 10am-3pm
WHERE: Green Mountain Compost, 1042 Redmond Rd., Williston, VT
WHAT: Free workshops, prizes, tours, fun — and great deals on compost and other soil products:

$10 off per cubic yard of bulk Complete Compost.
$1 off all bagged Compost, Topsoil, Potting Soil, and Seed Starter, including Bag-Your-Own Complete Compost and Raised Bed Mix! Come and get it!

Plant some seeds: We’ll provide the seeds, seed-starter, and small containers to help participants start seeds for their home gardens. Folks from the Vermont Community Garden Network will be on hand to help make it happen.

Climb on the big trucks & sand pile: Kids both small and tall get a chance to climb into the driver’s seats of the big rigs that help make compost happen: a full-size excavator, bucket loader, and dump truck — and dig around in a giant sand pile.

Free how-to workshops:
– How to plant a tree (10am-11am) with Meghan Giroux of Edible Landscapes. A well planted tree is a happy tree! Learn how to put down roots the right way.
– Backyard composting (10:15am-11:15am & 1:30pm-2:30pm) with Marge Keough of CSWD. She’ll show you how easy it is!
– First-time Gardening (11am-12am) with Charlie Nardozzi
– Raised Bed & Lasagna Gardening (12pm-1pm) with Mark Krawczyk of Keyline Vermont. No we’re not planting lasagna trees — but we are introducing you to a great way of growing the ingredients for lasagna!
– Edible Landscaping (1:45pm-2:45pm) with Mark Krawczyk of Keyline Vermont. Birds do it. Bees do it. You can do it, too — feasting on your yard, that is!

Tour the facility: Get a gander at our high-tech compost-making facility

Free raffle prizes: Enter for drawings of free compost, a backyard composting bin, a Healthy Living gift card, Green Mountain Compost hats, T-shirts, and more!

Munchies:
Food trucks: Skinny Pancake and Mo’s Backyard BBQ
The famous Green Mountain Compost Sundae: chocolate cookies, ice cream, and gummy worms!!

Save the date and come on down! Want more information? We’ve got it right here:
https://www.greenmountaincompost.com/compostfest/