Category — Compost

Rebecca Gerendasy makes great videos for her web site “Cooking Up A Story”. This one features the Bijou Café, which now composts all its kitchen waste.

Rebecca writes: “I had heard about a program at the Office of Sustainable Development called Portland Composts! This makes so much sense, but how does one go about learning how and what’s entailed? I set out to learn from one who knew firsthand, and I found that one of the best local and organic breakfast places in town has been participating in this program since its early days, the Bijou Café.

“Kathleen Hagberg and the crew at the Bijou have made the change from going to the dump to going to the composter. And it wasn’t all that hard for them. It seems to be working in Seattle, and San Francisco too.”

See more about “Commercial Composting” on “Cooking Up a Story”.

Preet is our Punjabi host.

Hong speaks Mandarin

And Patrick, Cantonese, in these scripted videos.

Many Vancouver residents want to compost but cannot speak English, so we’ve made three instructional videos, which are available on the Web.

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Heather showed me a new composting initiative taking place at the Vancouver Aquarium. Eighty percent of waste produced at the cafeteria including plates, cups, cutlery, napkins and food waste, goes to a compost facility in Metro Vancouver. A City Farmer video.

Link to City Farmer TV.

Another comix style “how to” flyer from the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden. This one shows you how to worm compost in an apartment. City Farmer teaches hundreds of people every year in Wormshops subsidized by the City of Vancouver.

See the full-sized document here.

City Farmer has produced a 2 page flyer on how to make compost in a backyard bin. This comix style edition is based on our popular web site photo slide show. City Farmer runs Vancouver’s Compost Demonstration Garden.

See the full-sized document here.