On Wednesday, April 15 Cedar Grove Composting will be delivering a bag of compost at the curbside of 2,000 households three neighborhoods from Puget Ridge to South Seattle Community College. The households that receive the compost will be the same households that received mailings about Natural Yard Care Neighborhood Classes.

Cedar Grove is interested in marketing the compost they are making from materials collected from Seattle households. Seattle Public Utilities shares the fact that there has been a 47% increase in the amount of food that Seattle households are recycling into compost between 2008 and 2009.

For people who don¹t want the compost, Cedar Grove will return two days later to pick up the compost that has been left at the curbside. This compost will be donated to one or more community projects in the neighborhood. If residents have ideas for where that compost could best be donated, they are asked to contact Carl Woestwin, Landscape Conservation & Waste Prevention Team Lead via email carl.woestwin@seattle.gov with a name for the project and a contact person.

Seattle Public Utilities are promoting classes on Natural Yard Care for residents of these neighborhoods. These classes will be from 7-9 PM on the evenings of April 19, May 3 and May 17 at South Seattle Community College in Olympic Hall. They cover building healthy soil, natural lawn care, smart watering, home composting, intro to vegetable gardening, choosing the right plants and natural pest, weed and disease control. If interested, please call the Garden Hotline at 206.633.0224 to sign up.