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Free Kitchen Compost Kit at Good Shepherd Dec. 2

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kitcatchbucketJust when you were wondering how to more stylishly haul your food scraps from kitchen to yard waste cart, here comes the perfect sporty EcoSafe compost bucket – and it’s free!

Seattle Public Utilities and the Seattle Mariners are offering free kitchen compost containers to Seattle residents to help us reduce our holiday “wastelines.”

On Monday, December 2, from 11 am to 2 pm, Seattle residents who pledge to recycle and compost can receive a collector’s edition Felix Hernandez Kitchen Caddy at the following locations in Seattle:

Seattle Tilth – Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N,  Room 107
CleanScapes – 117 S Main St, Suite 300
SE Neighborhood Service Center – 3815 S Othello St., Suite 105
SW Neighborhood Service Center – 2801 SW Thistle St.

Supplies are limited. One free compost container per Seattle household.

And to add to your good “green” vibes – when you reduce what you throw into your garbage can, you will also help Wallingford win big in the Think Green Recycling Challenge.

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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.