Name: Backyard Composting Workshop with Neal Denton
Start: 2025-01-25T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-25T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Ijams Nature Center

Backyard Composting Workshop with Neal Denton

Learn how to compost with Neal Denton and take home your own backyard compost tumbler & countertop food scraps collection bin!
About this Event

**Due to high demand from previous workshops, those who register for this workshop will be REQUIRED TO RECONFIRM THEIR ATTENDANCE via e-mail 2 DAYS BEFORE the event. If confirmation is not received, your ticket will be released to those on the waitlist. Please keep a lookout for a confirmation email on Tuesday January 21st that must be confirmed by Thursday, January 23rd.**

The Knoxville Compost Project's next backyard compost workshop is here! Join Neal Denton from the UT Agricultural Extension Office, as he discusses the importance of composting, how to properly turn food scraps into quality compost, & any trouble-shooting. Attendees will receive one free backyard compost tumbler & one countertop food scrap collection bin per household.

The City of Knoxville's Waste and Resources Office was awarded the USDA Composting & Food Waste Reduction Grant in 2023. To help us fulfill the requirements of the grant, which supports the expansion of our composting efforts, all participants of the workshop must agree to answer a questionnaire. This will be emailed to you 9 months post-workshop to give you enough time to produce compost. The questionnaire is essential to our reporting of certain metrics to the USDA and in improving future workshops.

You will be asked to report on topics such as the following:

1 . Approximate amount of food waste your household contributes each week

2 . Any composting challenges faced

3 . Approximate amount of compost produced

4 . If any compost was applied to soil to grow food

This event is limited to 30 households. You are welcome to bring an additional member of your household but please make sure to indicate this and list their full name when prompted during your registration. Do NOT register another member of your household seperately (as another ticket order). Those who attended a previous workshop are not eligible to receive another compost tumbler and food scrap collection bin.

Future backyard composting workshops will be held - visit KnoxvilleTN.gov/Compost for updates and other Knoxville Compost Project information. We look forward to seeing you!