Growing Soil: Mid-ScaleComposting in the City

On the evening of May 31, SFU Centre for Dialogue’s Planning Cities as if Food Matters project, in partnership with the Real Estate Foundation of BC, Nature's Path and Transform Compost Products, will be following up Growing Power CEO’s Will Allen’s lesson—“It’s all about the soil”—by showcasing local companies and organizations with solutions to:

Growing soil: Mid-scale composting in the city

This lecture is free, however pre-registration is required. 

To RSVP:   http://cgi.sfu.ca/%7Ehccweb/cgi-bin/OnlineRegistration/site/event/index.php?cursor=5 (this is an online reservation page)

or try Brenda Tang at brendat@sfu.ca

With residential food scraps banned from the landfills in 2012 and all organics banned by 2015, Metro Van municipalities need to find a new home for 250,000 tonnes of organic waste in the next few years. Meanwhile, growing numbers of urban, near-urban and rural food producers are looking for supplies of affordable, uncontaminated, quality compost. Rising fuel costs will reward close-to-home solutions, but composting is challenged by odour and pest problems. Who has the best solution for economically growing high-quality soil from food scraps close to sources and end users?

Keynote speaker Dr. Sally Brown, a soil scientist and organic residual specialist from the University of Washington, will speak followed by ten presenters with five-minute explanations of what they offer. Watch for a followup notice with names and descriptions of presenters.