The Walworth County Fair received a Bob Williams Ag Grant for their Barnyard Adventure Agriculture Garden Kids Can Compost Project. This project will provide easy composting ideas for families to demonstrate the benefits of composting. Additionally, a scrap garden will be planted that will highlight ways to reuse food waste. Eileen Grzenia, Walworth County Fair Secretary, has played a key role in this project.
“The Kids Can Compost gardening program was created to look at a diverse way to offer our fair guests with opportunities to take what they’re eating at the dinner table and replant these to regenerate a crop,” says Grzenia. “That includes potatoes, lettuce, fruits and much more as there’s a whole gamut of what can be regrown.”
People all around the world are trying to take conservation measures. Being able to connect urban and rural audiences through this project is what Grzenia is most excited about.
The Barnyard Adventure area will have a garden box that will be focusing totally on the compost day program and will be monitored year round. There will also be a worm composting unit that will be installed as part of this program.
“I think the interest in using diversity and gardening is on everyone’s list,” says Grzenia. “We’ve really taken steps to continue to be progressive, and composting is a conservation measure that I think everybody is really in tune with. It only mirrors what the fair will be doing in successful gardening practices.”
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