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ENHANCING OUR<br />
community<br />
GOVERNMENT<br />
COMPOSTING EVENT<br />
On a blazing hot day in June nearly 50 people gathered in<br />
the parking lot behind City Hall to get the breakdown on<br />
composting.<br />
Julia Lace, a Greenwood Elementary student now<br />
transitioning to middle school, gave an engaging talk on the<br />
importance of composting and how she launched a grassroots<br />
effort to bring home pickup of compostable kitchen and<br />
garden waste to Greenwood Village. Julia informed event<br />
attendees about how composting can reduce waste going into<br />
landfills, where it produces methane gas harmful to the<br />
environment, by about 30 percent. She shared with her<br />
listeners how she first heard about composting from her aunt<br />
and decided that a weekly composting pickup service would<br />
be valuable to have in Greenwood Village. Over the next year<br />
and a half, she went door to door in her neighborhood until<br />
she had convinced 50 households to sign up for a home<br />
pickup service.<br />
Volunteers from Denver Urban Gardens (DUG), and the<br />
Arapahoe County Colorado Master Gardeners SM , were<br />
available to answer the many questions attendees had about<br />
how to begin or improve their composting at home. There<br />
were also vendors onsite to give information on composting<br />
related products and services. Wompost (wompostcoop.com)<br />
and Compost Colorado (compost-colorado.com) are the two<br />
companies providing service to Greenwood Village. They<br />
offer home pickup of compostable kitchen and garden waste,<br />
which is composted and returned to customers to use in their<br />
gardens. The Greenwood Village Lowe’s was on hand to<br />
showcase the compost and soil amendments sold at the store<br />
and guide visitors to products like composting bins that are<br />
available online. Backyard Boxes showed off their made-toorder<br />
home composting bins and raised garden beds.<br />
DUG, www.dug.org, offers learn to compost workshops and<br />
a master composting training program. The Master Gardener<br />
volunteers, who plant and tend the Silo Park gardens, provide<br />
help with home gardening, lawn, and tree care questions.<br />
They can be contacted via their <strong>web</strong>site,<br />
https://arapahoe.extension.colostate.edu/colorado-mastergardener/,<br />
or by phone at 303-730-1920. <strong>GV</strong><br />
JULY <strong>2022</strong> | <strong>GV</strong> NEWSLETTER PG. 7
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