Spring Recycling 2014

Compost week photos
Tours

location 3:  Gips
compost tourists

Terry Gips explains her approach to composting below:

click here for a PDF 

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Wellfleet Farmers Market is open for the season!   Wednesdays, 8AM to 12 noon on the green behind Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 355 Main Street. wellfleetfarmersmarket.com

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MAY 17-24:   WELLFLEET COMPOST WEEK
All Events are Free and Open to the Public 
 
MAY 17, 9AM-12 Noon at Mid-Cape Home Centers, 30 Commercial Street, Wellfleet (rain or shine). 
DO-IT-YOURSELF WOOD PALLET COMPOSTER WORKSHOP Mid-Cape's Gary Haigh will show us how to build a compost bin out of wood pallets, and ecologist and gardener John Portnoy of Narrow Land Farm will describe the biological basics of composting. Hope to see you there!

    

MAY 22 from 5-7PM, at Wellfleet Preservation Hall,
335 Main Street (rain or shine)
COMPOSTING BASICS
+ Seedling Swap

Join us  for a special presentation by horticulturalist Russell Norton of the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension.  Russell will cover the basics of composting, options for composting in small spaces, and how to use compost in your yard and garden. 

Please bring a seedling for our Seedling Swap.
Compost and soil testing information will be available.
(Rain or shine). 


MAY 24, 3-6PM COMPOST TOURS   (town-wide)
Learn about local composting from your Wellfleet neighbors. Visit all kinds of compost set-ups from wood pallet bins to composters made out of abandoned oyster grids.  Please email Andrea Pluhar for details andrea@pluharcreative.com


click here for a printable PDF version of the map below

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Note: As always, Earth Machine and New Age compost bins

 are available at the Wellfleet Transfer Station.

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MAY 24
It's the 21st Annual Wellfleet Friends of the Dump YARD SALE AT THE DUMP!  Please visit capecool.org for information.









PAST   Spring 2014

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ANNUAL BEACH CLEANUP + community recycling event
MAY 3, 2014

9AM to midday, Meet at MAYO BEACH
Come volunteer!   Kick-off starts at 9AM with coffee, donuts, and beach assignments. Please bring work gloves. Bags provided. Sponsored by the Wellfleet Shellfish Advisory Board, MassAudubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, and the Wellfleet Recycling Committee. Special thanks to AmeriCorps Cape Cod volunteers.

10AM to 1PM, TOWN HALL PARKING LOT
A community recycling event -- 'Hands On Wellfleet: What washed ashore...'
Come help the Wellfleet Recycling Committee sort beach litter from the Cleanup into recyclables and non-recyclables. Learn more about what can and cannot be recycled at the Wellfleet Transfer Station, and then admire your handiwork at the Town Hall parking lot. The visual impact of the sorted litter will help raise awareness about the need for properly handing trash and recyclables at the beach, on the water, and at home. New 'Wellfleet Recycles' T-Shirts will be for sale. Snacks provided. For more information please call Lydia Vivante at 508 349 6619  





April 22, Earth Day 2014