Composting
Free Yard Debris Drop off: Spring 2021 Fire Free Weeks!
During a wildfire, most homes are lost when falling embers smolder and ignite vulnerable areas around homes. Reduce the risk of losing your home to wildfire and take advantage of…
Read MoreRecycle your Holiday Tree
As our Deschutes County Knott Landfill continues to fill up (it is anticipated to be full by 2029), we want to do our best to keep what we can out…
Read MoreDIY Composter: How-to with TEC’s Youth Education!
Our Eco-Hero STEAM students got to make their own composters this fall! What is compost? Compost is decomposed organic material that can be used as a nutrient-rich soil amendment for…
Read More3 Tips for a Low Waste Halloween
Halloween! Such a fun fantastical holiday when you can really be whoever you want to be: Storm from the X-Men? Willy Wonka? Or popular and scary Freddy Krueger? Well, even…
Read MoreLess Wasted Food on Farms featuring Boundless Farmstead and Rainshadow Organics.
We in Central Oregon, despite our fame as a semi-desert, are incredibly lucky to have dozens of local food proprietors. From dairies to alpaca farms, from egg-specialists to vegetable gurus.…
Read MoreComposting when you don’t have a yard or a public service.
I live in a small apartment and there is no composting on the property. I have a yard, but my HOA says I can’t have a compost pile. I live…
Read MoreCommunity Grants Awarded For Waste Reduction
Five organizations / businesses have won a grant from The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Community Grants Program to support waste reduction efforts! Out of 30 compelling applications, there were three…
Read MoreResidential Composting Pilot in Bend
Last week, Bend Garbage & Recycling and Cascade Disposal announced that they’ll be introducing a residential food waste pilot program to some areas in Bend. About 300 households from each…
Read MoreThree-bin Composting Tips
At The Environmental Center, we have a variety of composting systems, and they each have pros and cons. The 3-bin system is useful primarily because it offers space to…
Read MoreProcessing Your Compost for a Finished Product
The compost demonstration area at The Environmental Center is towards the back of the Kansas Ave Learning Garden. We were recently the recipients of a beautiful Little Free Library, installed…
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