Compost Club Harvest, 1/21/23

Aloha Compost Club Members and Guests,

COMPOST CLUB HARVEST!
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Kainalu Elementary School, Kailua
10:30-11:30am
Enter the back gate off Kainalu Drive – you’ll see a sign. We’ll open up at 10:00 am.
Please RSVP by using the form below

This will be our final harvest in preparation for our semi-annual open-to-the-public Compost Sale to be held the following Saturday, January 28th. We have several piles to harvest this time, so we can use all the help we can get! Please encourage your family members, friends, neighbors, or other compost-curious folks to give it a try. As you know, harvesting compost is invigorating, sociable, and fun. Plus, you can purchase all the compost you need ahead of the crowd!

Join our fun and fabulous Windward Zero Waste School Hui COMPOST CLUB!

The five schools of the Windward Zero Waste School Hui boast an abundance of riches – beautiful, dark compost, high in nutrients and microbial life – created from cafeteria food waste on campus every day through safe, natural thermal composting technology. This premium, hand-crafted, artisanal soil amendment nourishes our magnificent, productive school gardens. All surplus is sold to the community at open-to-the-public Compost Sales held every January and June, and made available monthly to volunteer harvesters – members of the Compost Club!

What is Compost Club?
Compost Club gives you the opportunity to purchase compost year-round, and enjoy the camaraderie of participating in a vigorous, hands-on compost harvest with other local greenies and gardening enthusiasts. Harvests take place at Kainalu Elementary School in Kailua on Saturday mornings, usually scheduled monthly. Harvesting is rewarding and fun! Kids love it, too – families are welcome.

How do I join Compost Club?
To become a member, simply come to any scheduled harvest at Kainalu Elementary. Your dues for membership are one hour of volunteer harvesting time, and an initial investment of $30 to purchase of two bucketfuls of compost that day – two cubic feet. After that, you become a Compost Club Member for Life.

What are the benefits of membership?

The opportunity for enjoyable outdoor exercise and camaraderie as we gather together at regular intervals to harvest the nutrient-rich, microbially-active, premium, hand-crafted artisanal compost generated from Kainalu Elementary’s school lunch program. There is no better compost anywhere in the cosmos!
As a Compost Club member, you may purchase compost at any harvest you attend (usually monthly) – you do not have to wait for the less frequent open-to-the-public Compost Sales.
As a Compost Club member, each time you volunteer for a harvest, you earn ONE point. When you accrue THREE points, you earn a FREE bucket of compost – a $15 value!

Sign up for the upcoming harvest!

To participate in the Compost Club harvest, please RSVP using the form below.
Dress for gardening – you’ll get down-and-dirty. Closed-toed shoes are a must.
Go to the back yard – playground and field of Kainalu Elementary – drive in through the gate along Kainalu Drive.
Look for the “Harvest Today” sign. Plenty of parking.
Please bring your own containers – buckets, boxes, bags – to transport your compost home.
All proceeds from compost sales benefit school gardening and ag education programs

PLEASE RSVP IF YOU PLAN TO JOIN US THIS SATURDAY.

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Mahalo!

“Gardening SURE IS FUN when you have good soil!”
Parker Sawyer, STEM teacher and garden manager, Ka’ohao School

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Ka’ohao Public Charter, Kainalu Elementary, Ka’elepulu Elementary, Enchanted Lake Elementary and Kailua Intermediate School – all members of Windward Zero Waste School Hui – collect cafeteria food waste and process it on site to create rich organic soil amendments available to the public.