Linda Bilsens Brolis is the Associate Director for Education for the Composting for Community Initiative. Linda oversees the initiative’s educational programming, which promotes the benefits of local composting (including at-home, community, and on-farm scales), centers best management practices for composting and implementing local composting projects, and facilitates knowledge-sharing among educators and practitioners. She is also the initiative’s point person for on-farm composting.
Linda is a certified Compost Facility Operator for the state of Maryland and has trained with 131 School of Composting, SoilWise, the Mid-Atlantic Better Composting School, the US Composting Council, the University of Maryland Extension Service, O2 Compost, ECO City Farms, and U.R.S Landmanagement. Linda holds a B.S. degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has worked in various sustainable agriculture, energy efficiency, and renewable energy projects in the U.S. and internationally. Linda is passionate about advancing local composting as a tool for supporting regenerative food systems and fighting climate chaos. Her family’s backyard gardening and composting efforts were rewarded by a surprise visit from former First Lady Michelle Obama in early 2016. Linda now lives in West Virginia with her husband and two daughters.
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