Reduce Food Waste at Home: Compost Made Easy - - Free composting kit!
Sat, Feb 27
|Maui Nui Botanical Gardens
Join MFSN and Maui Nui Botanical Gardens to learn how to reduce or eliminate your food waste at home through urban composting. Learn simple ways to compost, even with limited space. Take home a free compost starter kit and get started at home!
Time & Location
Feb 27, 2027, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Maui Nui Botanical Gardens, 150 Kanaloa Ave, Kahului, HI 96732, USA
About the event
What if the food scraps you throw away could become something useful? Composting is also one simple way to reduce your environmental footprint. Keeping food scraps out of the waste stream can help reduce the amount of organic material sent to landfills, while turning those scraps into a useful resource for plants and soil.
Join Maui Farmer Support Network and Maui Nui Botanical Gardens for a hands-on workshop about reducing food waste and getting started with composting at home—even if you’ve never composted before.
We’ll break down the basics of urban composting in a simple, approachable way and explore different options for composting food scraps and green waste in small spaces. You’ll learn what can and can’t be composted, how to avoid common problems, and how to keep your compost system working.
We’ll also demonstrate sheet mulching and show how cardboard, compost, and mulch can be used to reduce weeds, retain moisture,…