A train-the-trainer Composter Training Program that prepares participants to establish and manage composting projects that both engage and serve their communities.
Community-based composting can happen at schools, churches, community gardens, farms and other community venues. It is an effective way to engage youth, gardeners, and other members of the public in the act of recycling wasted food into a valuable soil amendment. Community leaders may be inspired to install and operate composting sites, but they need training, exposure to best practices and systems, and on-the-ground technical support to be successful. The Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders (NSR) Composter Training Program was designed to help communities meet this need.
The NSR Composter Training Program is a train-the-trainer program that prepares participants to establish and manage composting projects that both engage and serve their communities. Participants can then teach others, share lessons learned, start their own enterprises, and contribute to advancing local composting.
Below is a list of our current training offerings:
Here are examples of where the NSR Composter Training Program has been replicated or adapted:
Also, check out our other composting resources including more webinars, graphics, our Composting for Community Podcast, and learn about our Community Composter Coalition.
Community Composting 101 provides an overview of the importance of and science behind composting, and recommended best practices for implementing community-based programs.
These Composting Learning Activities are designed assist community composting sites in training their own community participants.
Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices is designed to support community-scale composters in successfully managing their composting process and site, with...
Composting posters, workshops, learning activities, signage, and training guides are now available in Spanish.… Read More