A big community thanks to Ashland Community Composting for donating compost to the Ashland High School Otterlifter Canoe!
Our Compost Action Team volunteer, Magdalena Winter, recently donated two cubic feet of compost to Ashland High School. The rich compost, produced by processing scraps from local homes and events, is being used to replant an area around the high school’s Otterlifter Canoe, which was crafted from a 365-year-old sugar pine.
Donated by the Wahpepah family, the canoe is an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of the Rogue Valley — the Takelma, Latgawa, Daa-kuu-bee-tv-de, Shasta, Modoc, Klamath, and Umpqua peoples.
It is also a reminder of the importance of a regenerative way of living for our children and our children’s children.
Processing food scraps into compost is an important step in regenerative farming and gardening, as the composted scraps enrich soils by returning nutrients to fields and planting beds. Importantly, when we keep food scraps out of our landfills, we also reduce methane, a powerful warming pollutant that is created in the anaerobic conditions of landfills.
Visit Magdalena’s website, Ashland Community Composting, to learn how you can participate in her community drop-off or pick-up services for a small fee. Magdalena composts using the bokashi method, which accommodates meat and bones. She also offers fee-based consulting to home composters.
By composting your food scraps, you’ll help Ashland meet its climate goals, enrich soils—and sometimes even help our schools. Win, win, win!
