Earth Day Composting Fair a Success!

~ Submitted by Frances Bigda-Peyton, Rebecca Pomerantz, and others for Bedford Mothers Out Front

Several town groups collaborated to create a fun family-oriented Composting Fair at the library on Earth Day 2022. The sponsoring organizations – Bedford Mothers Out Front, D.P.W., Energy and Sustainability Committee, First Parish Environmental Justice Committee, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Green Team, First Church of Christ Congregational Green Team, and WeCaptureCarbon.com – all contributed volunteers and materials.

The fair introduced three forms of composting through hands-on compost making, art, and games. Enthusiasm was contagious. People learned that composting is easy and that it is a powerful, earth-friendly thing to do. What other activity creates healthy soil and food, sequesters carbon, helps reduce methane emissions, produces jobs, saves the town money, and even filters and cleans water while reducing runoff?

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‘Fotos from the Fair’

Highlights of the day included having pictures taken with a human-sized worm, bringing home worms to begin composting at home, learning to do traditional composting in a jar, and testing one’s skills at determining what can and cannot go in that recycling bin!

Another fascinating exhibit was bokashi composting, a fermentation process that combines food scraps, including bones and oil, with the spent grain by-product from beer breweries.  Incorporating this mixture into your backyard compost heap or directly into garden soil speeds the process without attracting vermin – see WeCaptureCarbon.com.

The DPW’s $45 backyard composters were available for purchase, as well as low-cost kitchen collection bins – free if you bought a backyard bin. Participants could also sign up for curbside compost pick up through Black Earth Composting. Children colored educational activity pages featuring worms, gardens, and compost bins, and identified compostable and recyclable items. They also made superhero masks that urged Massachusetts legislators to be climate superheroes, with the “Burning Question” – Will we be stuck burning dirty, dangerous gasses, or will we build a future that is clean, safe, and affordable for all?

Many thanks to all who volunteered and to all those who left with a renewed commitment to do something positive for the Earth at home.

Learn More about Waste Reduction

If the idea of waste reduction sparks your interest, zoom in to our meeting of the Mothers Out Front Bedford Chapter on May 15, 4:00 – 5:00 pm. Guest speaker Deane Coady from Brookline Mothers Out Front will present successful waste reduction measures they are working on in conjunction with their DPW, schools, and local food businesses. Now that Bedford Town meeting has passed our recommended budget, enabling the hiring of an Energy and Sustainability Manager, we are poised to make a real change toward developing a zero-waste plan. Let’s learn together what strategies work best, from a town that has already embarked on this critical work.

Please join us and come with your ideas and questions. Everyone is welcome – parents, grandparents, non-parents – in our work mobilizing for a livable climate for all children!

Bedford Mothers Out Front meeting with invited speaker about waste reduction in Brookline
May 15, 2022, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
RSVP HERE to receive zoom link

For more information about the benefits of composting, refer to this link: https://growensemble.com/benefits-of-composting/

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