Green team to teach composting at Ansonia Nature Center

ANSONIA - Join the green team, Rangers Jess and Mike, at 2 p.m. July 12 at the Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center to learn how you can reduce your carbon footprint.

Did you know that a typical household throws away an estimated 474 pounds of food waste each year?
Come and learn how to compost, how to construct an easy home composting system, what you can recycle and how, and alternative methods to help reduce your h

ousehold waste.

Call 203-736-1053 to register for this free program.

The nature center is at 10 Deerfield Road.

This post is taken from the Ansonia Nature Center's calendar.

Workshops to highlight composting, beekeeping

Events to be held in Ansonia, Woodbridge

ANSONIA - Spring is coming and the Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center and Massaro Farm in Woodbridge are getting ready to host workshops March 23 to educate the community about gardening and more.

Organic land care, planting an edible landscape, and nurturing our backyard pollinators will be topics of the day.

At noon March 23 the Massaro Farm will host a visit by the "Duck Truck" Composting Workshop at the nature center. It follows a Beekeeping Workshop scheduled at 10 a.m. at the farm on Ford Road.

The goal of the farm is to expand workshops "to provide topics that would appeal to and educate our surrounding community on how best to maintain a yard that is both appealing and beneficial to supporting our natural environment," said Jason Merrill, board president, Massaro Community Farm.

The Duck Truck Composting is the brainchild of Alexis Wilcox, a teacher, master gardener and composter who offers a host of landscaping services.

The Duck Truck, a traveling composting works pace, is based in Hamden. It makes numerous appearances throughout the year educating both kids and adults on the ease and benefits of diverting our green scraps to the compost pile.

Registration for this free workshop is not required, but is appreciated. Call 203-736-1053.