{"id":80579,"date":"2017-05-08T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80579"},"modified":"2017-05-05T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:33:33","slug":"4-h-composting-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80579","title":{"rendered":"4-H Composting Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=80583\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-80583 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mixing-in-paper-to-compost-soup-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mixing-in-paper-to-compost-soup-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mixing-in-paper-to-compost-soup-1-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mixing-in-paper-to-compost-soup-1-506x900.jpg 506w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mixing-in-paper-to-compost-soup-1-400x711.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 22, 15 4-H volunteers and members from Herkimer County gathered at the Young\u2019s General Store and Ace Hardware of Ilion to learn about backyard composting. 4-H members learned what to do with kitchen, garden and yard scraps.<\/p>\n<p>They learned how to expand recycling efforts that include kitchen scraps and yard debris by playing games and sorting things that would normally be thrown away into a landfill. They are now equipped with the knowledge of how to turn yard waste and food scraps into a valuable resource for their garden.<\/p>\n<p>This workshop was open to all 4-H members and volunteers to come learn about how to get their backyard compost started. 4-H educator Wendy Richardson also helped participant make a composter out of a garbage can and decorate it to take home.<\/p>\n<p>4-H members participating included:\u00a0 Gami, Ahna, and Coco Brackett; Asaiah, and Elijah Muha; Luke and Logan Humphreville; Bo Alesia; Kevin and Anna Marie Meyers.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this and other programs offered by 4-H, contact Cornell Cooperative Extension of Herkimer County at <a href=\"tel:(315)%20866-7920\">(315) 866-7920<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, April 22, 15 4-H volunteers and members from Herkimer County gathered at the Young\u2019s General Store and Ace Hardware of Ilion to learn about backyard composting. 4-H members learned what to do with kitchen, garden and yard scraps. They learned how to expand recycling efforts that include kitchen scraps and yard debris by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}