Today kicks of International Compost Awareness Week, by the US Compost Council.
Manola asked a while ago about composting in hot and sticky Florida. Well, it turns out there is a site to talk you through it. Florida’s Online Composting Center.
It seems that the City of Miami gives out free mulch and compost during the week to residents. Virginia Key location 3851 Rickenbacker Causeway.
(Incidentally, tons of people arrive to my site looking for "free mulch in Miami." Weird.)
Additionally, UF IFAS has an online publication: Construction of Home Compost Units. The town of Surfside also recommends composting, as does Miami-Dade County.
4 Responses to “Compost Awareness Week”
Dade county does not allow home composting, as Team Metro has cited my parents for maintaining a home barrel composter and turning rack. 250.00 fine plus extra fines. The county of Miami-Dade does not want composting, according to Joseph Mesler.
I am looking for a supplier of bagged compost who is willing to ship to Trinidad in the caribbean.
Please contcat me at the above e-mail.
Is that really true that Miami Dade doesn’t allow home composting?!?!? That seems absurd.
If it’s not true, I was hoping to start container composting at the back of the building where I live in Miami Beach, but needed some better advice, perhaps a good resource to learn how to do it as well as the affect of the hot and humid FL climate. Anybody?
I don’t think that the Miami Dade poster is correct. If you check this page, http://www.miamidade.gov/derm/tips_yard_care.asp you’ll see that there are guidelines from Miami Dade county on Yard Care that suggest composting.