The Latest Dirt Winter 2013 - Victoria Compost Education...
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WINTERWINTER
20132013
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE COMPOST EDUCATION CENTRE
THE LATEST DIRTTHE LATEST DIRT
New Year - New Look! By Nadine Collison
Over the past year or two we have been looking at re-branding. We looked at a new logo, a new name, and other ways which we could rebrand and after meeting upon meeting of deliberation this is what we have de-cided:
New Name: There was a lot of discussion about our name. On the one hand, we wanted to communicate that we do more than just teach people to compost. On the other hand, we have built a solid reputation as the Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre and didn’t want to lose that by changing our name too drastically. In the end we have decided our common name will change from “The Greater Victoria Compost Educa-tion Centre” to the “Compost Education Centre”. Our society name, the Victoria Compost and Conservation Education Society, remains unchanged.
New Logo: While deciding on a new name, we wanted to have a logo that was less kid-oriented while simultaneously communicating to people that we are more than just compost. The new logo, designed by Simeon Goa, is bold and modern, while capturing many facets of com-posting and organic gardening. The images within the tree include vegetables, an apple core, leaves, garden tools, a chicken etc… and lets the observer know we encompass more than just compost.
New Website: Along with the new name and the logo, we will be launching our new website over the holiday season. It will have more interactive features for workshop regis-tration and membership renewals as well as being much easier to navigate compared to our current web-site.
Staff
Nadine Collison
Marika Smith
Alysha Punne�
Clare Pepper
Contact us at
1216 North Park Street
(at Chambers)
Victoria BC V8T 1C9
Hours of Opera-on
Wed. - Sat. 10am to 4pm
Closed on statutory holidays
& long weekends.
Closed Dec. 15 - Jan. 7
Phone: 386-WORM(9676)
Fax: 386-9678
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.compost.bc.ca
Board of Directors
Nik Hill
Marion Wylie
Janet Hockin
David Neate
Wendy Dunn
Bill McKechnie
Tamara Chirovsky
Contributors to this issue of
THE LATEST DIRT
Nadine Collison
Marika Smith
Newsle9er Forma:ng
Nadine Collison
We gratefully acknowledge the
core funding support that we re-
ceive from the CRD and the City of
Victoria. Addi9onal support is pro-
vided through the generosity of our
community funders, Compost Club
Members and the residents of CRD.
Our Logo Over the Years
Our logo: 2006 - 2013
Our logo: 2001 - 2006
Our logo: 1995 - 2001
Our new logo: 2013 - ??
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Plans for 2014
Holiday Sale
Each year, staff at the Compost Education Centre strive to come up with interesting new workshops, schools program, events, and new education opportunities for our member-ship and for the general public. Here are some of our plans for 2014:
Theme Days: In 2014, we are planning on having 2 theme days. One will be a Pollination Education Day where we will have educa-tion and demonstrations of all sorts of things related to our pollinators. The second theme day, Rainy Day, will revolve around rain gardens and rainwater management.
New Workshops: Like last year, we will be offering 2 series: our Sustainable Home and Garden Series and our Intensives Series. Mem-bers will continue to get 2 workshops for free from our Sus-tainable Home and Garden Series, and we will be dropping the price of our 3-hour Intensives workshops to $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Some of the new work-shops include Sheet Mulching, Hugelkultur, and Mushroom Inoculated Paths. Registration for our 2014 workshop series will open January 15.
New FREE Workshops: We will be adding another workshop to our free series which currently includes: Composting Basics, Advanced Composting, Worm Composting, and Grow Your Own Food 101. The new free workshop will be entitled “Soil Sci-ence 101” and will introduce attendees to the biological and chemical processes of soil and how that knowledge can help us develop better soil.
Documentary Screenings: We are also thrilled to announce some documentary screen-ings which will be by donation. The first will be the award-winning Clean Bin Project which will screened February 21 at the Fernwood Community Centre. The screening will be followed by a talk by the filmmakers.
Kids’ Drop-In Series: In 2013, we piloted a drop-in workshop series on Saturdays for kids. We found that it was quite successful and have monthly workshops planned throughout the year. Please check our website in January for more details and registra-tion.
We will be holding our annual Holiday Sale this December again. We will be open in December up until our Holiday Sale which will be Saturday, December 14 from 10am - 4pm. We will have yummy snacks, hot apple cider, mem-bership pricing for everyone, and special gifts with purchase for members. So get all you need for the gardeners and composters on your list at our holiday sale!
Holiday SaleHoliday SaleHoliday SaleHoliday Sale Saturday Dec. 14Saturday Dec. 14Saturday Dec. 14Saturday Dec. 14
10am 10am 10am 10am ---- 4pm4pm4pm4pm
Tes-ng New Composter
We are testing a new com-poster, a mid-scale composter by Jora Kompost. It is an in-sulated composter that can take all foods (cooked food, meat, pasta, dairy) and yard waste for 10-12 people and produce finished compost in 6-8 weeks. The composter is a tumbler design and is mixed with a 1:1 ratio of greens and browns. It is also rodent proof. As we do not produce enough food waste here at the Centre alone, we have made a deal with Pedal to Petal to help them compost the food waste they collect. We are really excited to see the results!
Workshops subject to change without no ce. Registra on begins January 15, 2014
MUST PRE-REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS AT WWW.COMPOSTEDUCATION.EVENTBRITE.CA
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Giving
Goes
Green!
Giving to the
Compost Ed. Centre is easy! Save 9me and paper by
submiCng your dona9ons on-line through Canada
Helps.org. Simply surf over to www.canada
helps.org and type in “Compost”. Our name is on
the top of the search results. Or, visit our website
and click the Canada Helps link. And of course, do-
na9ons are s9ll happily accepted at our office.
Grow A Row - Goal Surpassed!
Date Event Time Cost
Dec. 14 Holiday Sale 10am - 4pm Membership pricing for
everyone & special deals and
treats for members!
Dec. 16- Jan. 7 Centre CLOSED
Jan. 8 Centre RE-OPENS Wed- Sat 10am - 4pm
Jan. 18 Winter Pruning 2pm - 4pm $15 - Members refer to policy
Feb. 1 Composting Basics 10am - 12pm FREE
Feb. 21 “Clean Bin Project”
Documentary Screening TBA By donation
Feb. 22 Soil Science 101 10am - 12pm FREE
Feb. 22 Plan Your Year-Round Veggie Garden 2pm - 4pm $15 - Members refer to policy
We have completed our fourth year of Grow A Row and we are thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row we have again surpassed our goal. In 2013, we collected and redistributed the most locally grown food we ever have - over 1,600kg! We would like to thank all the growers, community gardens, and recipient organizations we worked with 2013, and we look forward to having another successful year in 2014. We’ll see you then!