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: If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em?! Yes, it's true, join SEEDS staff and learn how to prepare invasive plant species for dinner. Find out which invasives can […]
You will be given the tools to reduce what goes in your trash and discuss how reducing, reusing and recycling can save natural resources and decrease carbon emissions.
This class is offered through a partnership with Northwestern Michigan College Extended Education & Training. You must complete registration on their website here. Cost: $99 Class description: New! Learn all about the wonderful, soil building benefits of worm-based composting! Find out what makes worms happy, and how to prevent problems. Participants will leave with their […]
We will cover basic techniques from fermentation to canning and curing to drying.
You will be given the tools to reduce what goes in your trash and discuss how reducing, reusing and recycling can save natural resources and decrease carbon emissions.
Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of the function and purpose of citizen science as well as specific citizen science projects they can start participating in.
Learn some of the basics of perennial food forest planning, enjoy tastes of perennial foods, and take home some simple ideas to implement perennial foods in your home garden.
*NEW* Come tour Timothy’s Conscious Compost to learn about how they have perfected their formulation and grown their composting operations on Food for Thought organic farm over the last 15 years. This event is part of the Michigan Organics Council’s Great Michigan Compost Tour. Food rescuers, animal feed operators, and composters across the state are […]
*NEW* In early 2025, the Lively Farm & NeighborFood Market joined SEEDS’ regional Food Scrap Drop-Off Community of Practice (CoP) to start a (soon to launch) community food scrap drop off on their farm. Lively staff will share about how composting compliments their neighborhood-based food hub and cultivates community connections. Learn about their growing compost […]
Hear how one local teacher and her students at Glen Lake Schools are addressing their school’s food waste.
At Krull’s Composting, learn how you can use premium compost to create better soil biology. Barry Krull will explain best practices for applying compost and share about how healthy soil […]
Come visit Interlochen’s composting program and teaching gardens and learn about how composting connects to their vision for sustainability! They have both small-scale and large, industrial-scale composting facilities on-site. In […]
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