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Manure Composting For Livestock Owners - Bonita

  • Sweetwater Community Garden 5343 Sweetwater Road Bonita, CA, 91902 United States (map)

Learn how you can save money and reduce pests by composting your livestock manure! Composting manure helps protect your local watershed, prevents pollution in waterways, and produces a fantastic soil amendment. Composting is easy and inexpensive and can help reduce flies, odors, and waterway contamination. Using composted manure on your garden and landscaping will also help enrich your soil and conserve water.

This workshop will cover:

  • The basics & benefits of composting 

  • How to incorporate manure into compost piles

  • Scaling up or down compost pile size

  • Local regulations and requirements

  • Preventing odors and flies; and

  • Protecting local water sources

 

Benefits of manure composting:

  • Saves water and money (fewer purchased amendments)

  • Increases soil health and biodiversity

  • Prevents flies and odors; and

  • Protects waterways


Made possible through generous funding by

Thanks to our host Sweetwater Community Garden

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