Making Your Own Compost is Easy and Rewarding
We have various how-to resources for making your own compost at home or on-site, and different methods can suit the scale of your need, whether you're a home gardener or an on-farm composter.
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Home and On-Site Composting
Guidance for turning yard trimmings and food scraps into rich compost for use in your garden, landscape, or farm.
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Worm Composting
Convert food scraps into nutrient-rich fertilizer using red worms — a great option for households with limited space.
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Composting Food Scraps
Learn how to properly sort and compost food scraps using your green bin. Composting keeps organic waste out of landfills, reduces methane emissions, and creates nutrient-rich soil.
Tips for Using Compost & Mulch
Compost and mulch are incredibly versatile soil amendments with many uses and applications. Learn how to use it properly for your garden, landscape, or farm.
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Best Practices
Tips and tricks for applying compost and mulch in gardens, landscapes, and agricultural settings.
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Sheet Mulching
A permaculture practice for converting lawns and bare soil into low-water landscapes.
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Carbon Farming
Practices that draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in soil, supported by local research in Alameda County.
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Free Service for Community Organizations and Agricultural Producers
On-Site Composting and Compost Use Assistance
Is your community garden, urban farm, school, or organization looking to start or improve an on-site composting system? Do you have questions for how to bets use compost for your organization's project? StopWaste offers free technical assistance from experienced composters.
This service is available to community groups, agricultural producers, organizations, businesses, and institutions in Alameda County.