The UConn Home & Garden Education Center developed the UCONN Master Composter Program in 2009 and has held it annually to educate and train state residents about backyard and small-scale composting and to assist participants in passing this knowledge on to others.

Those enrolled in the Master Composter program will:

• Learn why it is important to reduce the amount of waste send to incinerators or landfills

• Understand how individuals and communities benefit from making compost

• Discover the art and science of composting

• Find out about the many ways that compost improves soils

• Become familiar with techniques for creating/maintaining backyard composting systems

• Learn how to use compost in an environmentally sound manner

• Have an opportunity to learn about vermicomposting and make their own worm bin

• Join occasional field trips to municipal, small-scale and/or on-farm composting sites

• Improve teaching and leadership skills through community outreach projects

Number: (877) 486-6271

Email: ladybug@uconn.edu

Address: 1380 Storrs Road, Unit 4115
Storrs, CT 06269-4115

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm