Compost Week is around the corner! To celebrate, The Forks is hosting two days of programming to showcase how tiny scraps can make a big impact.
Composting is an impactful way to manage waste materials. It highlights the concept of “cradle to cradle” where nothing is wasted and everything is put back into use. At The Forks, composting is practiced through its ongoing Target Zero initiative. Every day, innovative waste management practices are enacted to move the space closer to zero waste and zero carbon emissions.
For example, when visitors dine at The Forks, visitors' food waste, glass, takeout containers, and dishware are carefully sorted by The Forks Eco Team. Any compostable materials are carefully collected and sent to the compost site. They are then transformed and returned to soil as nutrient-rich compost.
This compost week, The Forks is taking visitors down to its composting site to give a closer behind the scenes.
Let's take a look at the activities planned ⬇️
Compost Week Tours
May 7 | 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM, & 5:00 PM | 📍 The Forks Market
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Partake on a free tour of The Forks compost site! Helga Jakobson, the Sustainability Coordinator at The Forks, will be guiding visitors through free on-site Compost Week Tours. Here, she will showcase the compost facility at The Forks and everything the site does to continue the ongoing goal of Target Zero. Oh, also, BYOB (Bring You Own Bucket) to take away free compost.
The tour will include a short walk. Visitors are asked to meet at the Sorting Station in the Food Hall.
Click here to reserve your spot.
Smell Walk
May 9 | 1:00 PM & 3:00 PM | 📍 The Forks Market
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Take in the sense of The Forks! Local researcher, multi-media artist, and perfumer Anna Sigrithur, is taking participants on a smell walk. This 90-minute workshop designed to get visitors in-tune with their sense of smell as a method for exploring the hybrid and built natural environment at The Forks. With a lesson on aroma wheels, olfactory terminology, and microbial scent categories, visitors will learn to synthesize, discuss, and create a map of scents.
Participants are asked to meet at Fools & Horses Coffee in the Food Hall.
Click here to reserve your spot.
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