Composting is a great and easy way to help the environment!

Virtual Compost Fair & 4-H Duck Race

Sunday, September 13, 2020, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Usually we hold the Compost Fair in the spring as a celebration of the season's arrival. In 2020, due to COVID-19, we decided to postpone the Fair until the fall. Since large gatherings are still not safe, nor allowed in NY State, we decided to hold a "virtual Compost Fair!"

What's that? You may ask.

Continuing our long-standing partnership with the 4-H Duck Race, this year we offered ~20 minutes of fun and educational programming about composting during a virtual Duck Race event, held on Sunday, September 13 from Noon - 1:30pm.

Our compost programming featured four segments of about 5 min each:

Rot N Roll, Tompkins County’s best compost cover band performing their #1 hit, “Rot Me Mamma”
New Master Composter (MC) Daniel Baruch teaching about outdoor composting basics at the CCETC Demo site
New MC Romina Capelli and her 3 awesome children showing off their home worm composting bin
Adam Michaelides, Compost Educator, telling folks where they can learn more, and giving away 2 fabulous compost prizes

The entire event was STREAMED LIVE on CCE-Tompkins' YouTube Channel on Sunday, September 13 from 12:00-1:30pm:

Invitations to attend the online event were sent out through our Facebook event page.

The virtual Compost Fair of 2020 is free and available to view at any time! https://youtu.be/EcuJnYkSM8o?t=1343

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(What we usually offer - finger's crossed for 2021!)

Celebrate spring's arrival by stopping by the Compost Fair for a guaranteed good time! The Compost Fair is held in conjunction with the 4-H Duck Race. And this year, for the first time, we are partnering with Streets Alive! as they hold their event nearby. It is our hope that people can move easily between events on road and away from cars. Admission to all events is FREE and open to the public.

At the Compost Fair, there will be information and demonstrations of beginning and advanced compost techniques, continuous tours of our demonstration site, live music, food and activities for kids. Several partner organizations, gardening and sustainability groups will be joining us. All attendees will be eligible to win fabulous compost prizes. Compost bins (Earth Machines, welded wire cylinder and worm compost bins) will be for sale while supplies last. Go home a composter!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Entertainment
TBD
3:30: Duck Race Prize announcements

Compost Education Booths

Basic Composting Booth
Compost Kids Activities
Indoor Composting
Advanced Composting
Critter Shed
Outdoor Composting

Partner Organizations
TBD

(Past Partner Organizations)
Tompkins Co. Dept. of Recycling and Materials Management
Get Your Green-Back Tompkins
NYSEG Energy Smart Communities
Tompkins County Master Gardeners
Ithaca Community Gardens
Ithaca College Department of Life Skills
4-H Plant and Environmental Science Team
Dish Truck
Primitive Pursuits
Fidelis
CCETC Energy Program
CCETC Environment Program
CCETC Nutrition Program
CCETC Parenting Education Program
CCETC Rural Youth Services