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Food Cycle Program – Compost Bin Harvest

Mar 18, 2023 9:00AM—11:00AM

Solana Center for Environmental Innovation 137 N El Camino Real Encinitas, CA 92024

Our Food Cycle program allows community members who can’t compost at home to still divert their food waste. We have a triple bin aerated static pile system that is on a precise timeline to get food scraps cooking and turned into finished compost to be sent back out into the community as fast as possible.…

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Workshop Support: Composting with Maat Hetemii – Santa Ysabel

Mar 18, 2023 8:00AM—5:00PM

Lipay Homelands 100 Schoolhouse Canyon Road Santa Ysabel, CA 92070

Volunteers help our staff engage workshop attendees through our lecture and composting demonstrations, teach sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, and inspire others to adopt sustainable practices in their own lives. The goal of this course, Composting with Maat Hetemii: A Stewardship Pathways Training Event, is for attendees of all ages to understand the importance of composting practices to…

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Outreach Support: Booth at MANA de SD STEAM Pi Day – San Diego

Mar 14, 2023 3:30PM—8:00PM

404 Euclid Ave, San Diego, CA 92114

Volunteers help our staff teach simple solutions on how to divert wasted food from the landfill, reduce harmful greenhouse gases like methane, and build healthy soils that feed our plants and hold water.  At this event, you will engage community-members with our worm display, showcase our upcoming classes, and share information on other composting resources available to the public through Solana…

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Backyard Composting and Bokashi Basics Workshop – Pine Valley

Mar 11, 2023 10:00AM—12:00PM

Pine Valley Branch Library, 28804 Old Hwy 80, Pine Valley, CA, 91962

Join Solana Center for this 2-hour presentation where you will learn the basics of traditional composting and get an introduction to bokashi, a fermentation method that will enable you to compost all your food waste, including meat, dairy, and liquids. This “pre-composting” process uses an inoculant of effective microbes to preserve kitchen scraps until you’re ready…

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(EVENT FULL) Workshop Support: Backyard Composting and Bokashi Basics – Pine Valley

Mar 11, 2023 9:00AM—1:00PM

Pine Valley Branch Library 28804 Old Hwy 80 Pine Valley, CA 91962

Volunteers help our staff engage workshop attendees through our lecture and composting demonstrations, teach sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, and inspire others to adopt sustainable practices in their own lives. Volunteer support can also include the following: Setting up / breaking down demo site Advancing PowerPoint slides or flipping our educational chart Engaging attendees in activities related…

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Education Support: Ag Day Valley Center Middle School

Mar 10, 2023 8:00AM—2:00PM

28933 Cole Grade Road Valley Center, CA 92082

As a volunteer, help our staff engage our students through interactive demonstrations, teach sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, and inspire students to adopt sustainable practices in their own lives! At Valley Center Ag Day, we will bring our resident work demonstration to engage students. Presentations will be in a fast paced environment, resetting teaching space quickly, and there…

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Education Support: Rancho Santa Fe Science Discovery Day – Rancho Santa Fe (multiple shifts)

Mar 10, 2023 9:00AM—3:00PM

R. Roger Rowe School 5927 La Granada Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067

As a volunteer, help our staff engage our students through interactive demonstrations, teach sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, and inspire students to adopt sustainable practices in their own lives. Volunteers will help with educational presentations to 2nd grade students. Volunteer support can also include the following: Setting up / breaking down demo site Resetting rotation station Advancing PowerPoint…

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Education Support: Avocado Elementary – La Mesa (multiple shifts available)

Feb 27, 2023 7:30AM—Mar 03, 2023 2:30PM

Avocado Elementary 3845 Avocado School Rd La Mesa, CA 91941

As a volunteer, help our staff engage our students through interactive demonstrations, teach sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, and inspire students to adopt sustainable practices in their own lives. Volunteer support can also include the following: Setting up / breaking down demo site Advancing PowerPoint slides or flipping our educational chart Engaging students in activities related to the…

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Outreach Support: Booth at Hillcrest Farmers Market

Feb 26, 2023 8:00AM—3:00PM

3960 Normal St #3960 San Diego, CA 92103

Volunteers help our staff teach simple solutions on how to divert wasted food from the landfill, reduce harmful greenhouse gases like methane, and build healthy soils that feed our plants and hold water.  At this event, you will engage community-members with our worm display, showcase our upcoming classes, and share information on other composting resources available to the public through Solana…

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CANCELED – Worm Wranglin’

Feb 23, 2023 3:30PM—5:00PM

Solana Center for Environmental Innovation 137 N El Camino real Encinitas, CA 92024

Join us for this Worm Wranglin’ volunteer opportunity, where volunteers join us at our home base to help care for our worms. Our resident worms help us teach San Diegans about the value of vermicomposting (composting with worms). Our worm bins act as a demonstration site, a nursery for providing worms to community members who compost at…

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