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Brooks Truitt Community Garden — a pearlescent oyster shell sits atop a softly steaming pile of mulch next to the light rail track, the cherry on a compost sundae. The mulch, now in its fourth week of rotations, is waiting for the worm to turn.
Community members take a few steps closer, holding notepads and new compost pales to their chests, sometimes poking the hodgepodge mulch, spotting egg shells, fruit peels, the occasional bone and last year’s leaves. A few students step forward to take turns on a twisty crank that aerates the stack like a wine opener.
At this late April session, City of Sacramento Master Gardener and Community Garden Program Coordinator Bill Maynard shows how to work it: flip it, and reverse it. Taking down the side slats of the large wooden box holding together the “compost cake,” he offers tips for operating the at-home GeoBins the the City of Sacramento’s Recycling and Solid Waste Division distributes for free at its composting seminars.