Home gardeners will get hands-on instruction in worm composting in a vermicompost workshop on Saturday, May 8, at California State University, Fresno that will allow participants to create their own natural-based fertilizer for an organic garden.
Class materials – red worms and a worm box – and additional readings are included in the $25 fee.
Dr. Sajeemas ‘Mint’ Paskadee, a soil scientist/agronomist for the California Agricultural Technology Institute at Fresno State and Organic Farm adviser, and her students will help participants put together a worm box to take home.
Kitchen waste is used to feed the worms, she said. “After four to eight weeks, you will have a continuous supply of a nutrient-rich compost to feed your plants and improve soil health,” added Paskadee.
The workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at Fresno State’s Ornamental Horticulture Unit, near the northeast corner of Barstow and Chestnut avenues.
The workshop is presented on the same day as the Water-Wise Plant Exchange in the same area of campus, an effort to help backyard gardeners conserve water by having drought-tolerant plants available. Fresno State, the city of Fresno and several community partners are involved in the plant exchange.
The worm-composting workshop is sponsored by the student-operated Organic Farm Enterprise with a USDA‐Hispanic Serving Institutes Education Grant.
For more information, contact Pasakdee, at 559.278.2828 or spasakdee@csufresno.edu.
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