Thursday, 7 July 2011

Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets – Wormery workshop

Upper Hutt City Council to lead by example at HHHP composting workshop.

UPPER HUTT, Wellington NZ, 7 July 2011—The next Upper Hutt City Council Healthy Homes, Happy Pockets (HHHP) event is the community workshop ‘Opening a can of worms,’ about home composting using a wormery.

The workshop is taking place on 16 July from 10.00 am –12.00 pm at the Upper Hutt Central Library. “The event will go ahead rain or shine so please bring your raincoat and something warm to wear.” says Council Sustainability Officer, Roderick Boys.

In the first session (10.00 am – 11.00 am), the workshop attendees will be taught how to assemble a wormery with low cost recycled materials.

In the second session (11.00 am – 12.00 pm), Dan ‘the worm man’ Jones will talk about both homebuilt and store bought wormeries and answer questions. At the completion of the workshop, one lucky attendee will walk away with a brand new wormery worth $119, courtesy of the team at Mitre10 Mega Upper Hutt (worms not included).

Registrations are essential and can be made by contacting the Upper Hutt Central Library via telephone (04) 527 2171 or email library@uhcc.govt.nz no later than 5.00 pm on Thursday 14th July.

The details:

Saturday, 16 July 2011 10.00 am – 12.00 pm Upper Hutt Central Library 844 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt “The library wormery will be used to compost Upper Hutt City Council’s organic waste and will also serve as an ongoing educational tool for library visitors” says Mr Boys. “In addition, the recycled materials have been sourced from Earthlink, promoting material reuse, recycling, and composting in Upper Hutt.”

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