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Composting

Workshops and Low-Cost Compost Bins
For more information on workshop dates and sales events, unincorporated residents may contact the Solana Center for Environmental Innovation at (760) 436-7986 ext. 216.

Demonstration Gardens
Want to learn how to produce a valuable soil amendment from your food scraps and yard waste? Composting workshops and subsidized bin sales are offered in many unincorporated communities and at composting demonstration sites at the Cuyamaca Water Conservation Garden in Rancho San Diego, Deer Park Monastery in unincorporated Escondido, Summer's Past Farms in Flinn Springs, and Crestridge Ecological Reserve in Crest. 

Landscaper's Best Practices
Design and maintain commercial and residential landscapes?
To reduce the amount of yard waste you dispose, consult the Sustainable Landscape Practices Guide.

Yard Waste
For locations to recycle your yard waste or to pick up compost and/or mulch consult the Yard Waste Recycling Guide.

Animal Waste Management
Composting is a low cost and efficient way to manage animal manures.

Watch our video to learn how to manage your manure by composting!


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