Bucks County Master Gardeners Crystal Lecuyer, Roberta Turner, Jim Bray and Gary Dunbar hosted a successful booth at the Silver Lake Green Fest on Saturday, October 5th, teaching the public about composting. Master Gardener Gary Dunbar took the lead on the project and offered this report:
By Master Gardener Gary Dunbar
First off, my thanks to all for coming out and helping. The entire event went very smoothly, from setup to breakdown. It was a very successful event.
We interacted with over 200 people, fielding questions of all types regarding composting. Quite a few people seemed surprised that you could add things like teabags and coffee filters to the pile, andquite a few said they were going to start composting. The stand-out question in my mind, which was brought up four times, was the possibility of the compost pile starting a fire. Evidently hearing that the pile heats up is causing concern for some folks. We informed them that a) the pile does not heat up to a temperature that would start a fire, and b) a compost pile needs to be kept moist, which would negate any chance of combustion within the pile.
Silver Lake Green Fest has a "reward" program for young children who attend. They receive a
"passport" that gets stamped by visiting various vendors' booths. The Master Gardeners
decided the kids needed to earn their stamps this year, so we gave them a brief
description of what composting was about and a choice between a
plastic bag and a leaf, asking them which they could compost. I believe we only
had two children that chose the plastic bag.
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