Recording of Gardening from the Ground Up Webinar
Recording of Backyard Composting Webinar
Compost is gardening gold, and you can learn how to make it in your own backyard in this recorded virtual workshop. StopWaste educators, Lori Caldwell and Jeannie Pham, share all the basics, including how to build a pile, troubleshoot, and harvest. The webinar also explores the best uses of finished compost.
On-Farm Composting Toolkit
This in-depth guide can answer all of your compost questions. Whether you are an urban farmer, community gardener, or a backyard homesteader, this toolkit supports you in becoming an expert composter.
Healthy Soils Activity Guide
Wondering about the health of your soil? This interactive guide provides activities for you to engage and observe various aspects of your soil. Do just one activity or them all, at a pace that suits you.
StopWaste Farm Partners
StopWaste works with urban farms and community gardens to fight climate change with carbon farming practices. Practices such as feeding the soil with compost and keeping unplanted areas covered help these communities grow healthy food and sequester carbon in the soil.
Wildfire Smoke & Ash on Produce
Massive wildfires are part of the new norm in California and it's making gardeners concerned that smoke and ash are ruining their produce. Are the fruit and veggies that you worked so hard to grow still safe to eat?
What You Can Worm Compost
Deciding what to put in your worm bin is an important part of the composting process. Don't overfeed your worm bin! If you add more food than the worms can eat it will start to smell and attract flies.
WELO and the New Normal for the California Landscape
One-page PDF flyer describing the November 6, 2019 WELO workshop in San Francisco.
WELO Enforcement Training - October 16, 2019 in Oakland
StopWaste is holding a half-day workshop for public agencies in Alameda County on how to enforce the Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance. To learn more, click the download button for our workshop flyer or go to our Training & Events page.
Sustainable Landscapes in Alameda County 2019
Updated for 2019!
This annual report recognizes—and quantifies—the commitment of StopWaste's member agencies to landscapes that provide multiple environmental and community benefits, including carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas reductions resulting from applying compost to the soil.
In Alameda County, 79 civic, commercial and institutional landscapes have earned the ReScape/Bay-Friendly Rated Landscape distinction. And more than 400 public agency landscape staff have completed the comprehensive Bay-Friendly Qualified Professionals training.
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