Volunteer Time at the SEEDS Farm
The SEEDS Farm at Historic Barns ParkJoin us at the SEEDS Farm to help with a variety of gardening and landscaping projects! A fun opportunity for individuals and families!
Join us at the SEEDS Farm to help with a variety of gardening and landscaping projects! A fun opportunity for individuals and families!
SEEDS has been selected as an Oryana Groceries for Good recipient! Come shop at either store on August 15th and Oryana will give 2% of profits to SEEDS! You can find our team at the 10th St location from 10am-2pm outside under the SEEDS tent with a kid-friendly activity.
Join us at the SEEDS Farm to help with a variety of gardening and landscaping projects! A fun opportunity for individuals and families!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
See how Emmet County creates its homegrown compost at this site tour. Stick around for an option to travel (self-drive) to Brutus, MI to see Mshko Ode Farm.
Learn about how the GTB Agriculture & Food Sovereignty Department has been growing their fish composting operations since 2022 and is averaging 6,500 pounds of fish waste composted per week.
SEEDS has eight different composting technologies on display in a compost petting zoo format in Historic Barns Park.
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.