TUR Mini Magazine Business Summer Edition | Page 9

rinds or peels, coffee grounds, tea
bags) to the mix with their yard
waste. Inside, bacteria and fungi
work hard to break down the materials (bacteria creates heat at the
same time) and make them accessible to other macro organisms (sow
bugs, worms).
SD: What was the first thing you
grew? Did you know at that moment
this is what you were meant to do
career wise?
LC: I actually don’t remember the
first thing I grew. I do remember being excited when the annual daffodils would pop up in our yard or
when the strawberries were in season. Teaching people about gardening was way out of what I thought I
was meant to do. Teaching just kind
of happened. It started after I took
a Master Composter Class in 2006.
Soon after completing the course an
internship answering a compost hotline through the same agency became available. I did that for a year
and assisted with other Master Composter classes. My internship ended and two weeks later the Program
M [