Composting 101: At Home or Offsite

Adult & Family Programs / Our Environment -

Prescott CC - 2025 PROGRAM CATALOG

In this workshop, you will learn how to turn kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost in your backyard to benefit your gardens and landscape. It will also present other alternatives to support a good cause outside of your home without requiring you to manage the compost regularly. Composting also provides environmental and financial benefits by reducing carbon emissions and the cost to Groton taxpayers in hauling and burning food scraps.

**All proceeds benefit the Prescott Community Center.**

Instructors

Barbara Griffin

Barbara is a longtime Groton resident and avid home composting gardener. She enjoys seeing the benefits to her plants and shrubs, in her many garden beds, from adding the compost she makes from her kitchen food scraps. This practice has also significantly reduced the amount of "trash" she has to bring to the Groton Transfer Station saving time with less trips and money with less trash bags to buy. She appreciates doing her part to help the environment to reduce carbon emissions and Taxpayer expense in hauling and burning less solid waste.

Bart Yeager

Groton Foreman
www.blackearthcompost.com

Black Earth Compost was founded in January 2011, in Gloucester, MA. Originally a one-man one-truck Cape Ann company, it has steadily grown to become the leading full-service compost company in New England. With more than 35 trucks, they collect food scraps from residents, schools, supermarkets, colleges, and more, across eastern MA, RI, and NH. We are the only vertically integrated company that composts the material, returns it to customers, and sells it in garden centers throughout New England. Their site at the Groton Transfer Station is a regional hub. They pick up food waste at Groton Schools for free and allow residents to drop it off at the transfer station. This saves Groton money by reducing transfer fees and helps the environment by reducing carbon emissions.

May 2025