Learn to manage home organic wastes through the simple process of composting.

Composting
 
Composting is a natural process of recycling that results in the decomposition of organic matter (such as fruit and vegetable wastes, grass clippings, leaves. etc.) into a useful product for your landscape or garden. Composting can improve hard, depleted soils so that flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees can thrive in a nutrient-rich environment. Composting also improves the soil by boosting its fertility, moisture-holding capabilities and texture.

Composting Workshops:
The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sponsors periodic composting workshops and sells composting bins. Refer to the Smart Gardening website. for schedules of upcoming local workshops, as well as information on backyard composting, worm composting, grass recycling, water-wise and fire-wise gardening, and more.
  
Composting Bins:
The City of Alhambra assists residents who would like to take up composting by selling composting bins for just $10. For more information, call (626) 570-5010.