Volunteer Time at the SEEDS Farm

The SEEDS Farm at Historic Barns Park

Join us at the SEEDS Farm to help with a variety of gardening and landscaping projects! A fun opportunity for individuals and families!

Perennial Edible Landscaping

This class is offered through a partnership with Northwestern Michigan College Extended Education & Training. You must complete registration on their website here. Cost: $79 Class description: Explore food production within a forest system and the multiple functions these systems serve in carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat creation, and food and medicine production. You will learn […]

Composting 101: Food Scraps, Yard Waste & Wood – Oh My!

This class is offered through a partnership with Northwestern Michigan College Extended Education & Training. You must complete registration on their website here. Cost: $69 Class description: Do you wish your trash bins weren’t so full of wet, stinky stuff? Come learn about the processes and the magnificent organisms that turn your trash into valuable […]

Eat the Invasives

This class is offered through a partnership with Northwestern Michigan College Extended Education & Training. You must complete registration on their website here. Cost: $69 Class description: New! Join SEEDS staff in an introduction to preparations you can make at home out of aggressive plants that might be on your property. Learn about why it […]

Growing Soil Health with Compost and Biochar at Krull’s Composting

At Krull's Composting, find out about blending compost with minerals to support soil health and learn about the benefits of biochar. Dress for the elements. This event is part of the Michigan Organics Council's Great Michigan Compost Tour. Composters across the state are hosting tours so that you can learn more about how your yard […]

Make Food Not Waste Guest Speaker Danielle Todd

Danielle Todd of Make Food Not Waste will discuss the strategies represented in the EPA's Wasted Food Scale, the ways communities can be most effective in implementing strategies, and the local and national resources that are available.

Interlochen Center for the Arts Compost Demonstration

Interlochen's composting program and teaching gardens have both small-scale and large, industrial-scale composting facilities on-site. We turn out over 170 tons of finished compost each year that is utilized on our gardens and flowerbeds across campus.