Making Compost on Site
The Bay-Friendly Landscape Guidelines recommend setting up a method for producing compost on site from plant debris, food scraps and other compostable material.
The Bay-Friendly Landscape Guidelines recommend setting up a method for producing compost on site from plant debris, food scraps and other compostable material.
The Bay-Friendly Landscape Guidelines recommend incorporating quality compost into the soil at a rate sufficient to bring the soil organic matter content to 3.5% to 5% by dry weight.
California's Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELO) now requires the use of compost on permitted landscapes. Find out more.
This calculator can help you determine how much mulch and compost you'll need for your sheet mulching project, whether you're establishing a few new planting areas or converting your whole lawn to a Bay-Friendly garden.
Use this information to locate your own materials using our source list.
Worm composting is a great way to turn your food scraps into a nutrient-rich fertilizer that can be used for house and garden plants (learn more about using compost in your garden). A pound of red worms can eat 65 pounds of food scraps in less than three months!
Learn more about building healthy soil with this guide that provides tips to help you get started in your garden. It covers soil building strategies including composting, sheet mulching and cover cropping.
Incorporating compost in the soil and covering soil with mulch are two of the simplest and most beneficial practices for improving—and drought-proofing—virtually any landscape.
Turn your food scraps and yard trimmings into a valuable soil amendment.
Learn more about building healthy soil with this guide that provides tips to help you get started in your garden. It covers soil building strategies including composting, sheet mulching and cover cropping.
Congratulations...you have transformed your lawn into a garden, but now what? This brochure covers how to maintain your garden after sheet mulching and includes a calendar of tasks so that you will be ready for every season.
This 70+ page guide is written for the home gardener and provides how-to information, a design survey, profiles of East Bay gardens, and much more.