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Beyond Attitude Consulting acknowledges we operate in Mi’kma’ki – the unceded territory and ancestral homeland of the Mi’kmaq First Nation. Our relationship is based on a series of Peace and Friendship treaties between the Mi’kmaq First Nation and the Crown, dating from 1725 to 1779. In 1999 the Supreme Court of Canada, in R v Marshall, upheld the 1752 treaty “which promised Indigenous Peoples the right to hunt and fish their lands and establish trade.”
We also acknowledge that we work and play in many unceded territories and ancestral homelands of Indigenous Peoples across North America, and respect the rights and traditions of the many First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples therein.
We are all Treaty People.
Relax, Compost Happens
I am currently working on a great backyard composting project with the wonderful people at the Township of Langley, BC (http://www NULL.tol NULL.ca). We are using Community-based Social Marketing to promote backyard composting. I have been involved in backyard composting for over 20 years, and I believe it to be a solid waste management solution and endorse it heartily.
Lately I have been hearing more interest in backyard composting than usual, and a lot of it includes concerns about how to backyard compost (http://www NULL.vancouversun NULL.com/life/would+like+start+compost+pile+backyard+sure+about+best/3338641/story NULL.html) and what problems there might be. Often people don’t start backyard composting because they don’t get answers to their questions. Others are put off by some very technical answers about building layers of browns and greens in certain depths and applying moisture to a specific level (usually described as a moist sponge.)
Partly to provide simple advice on backyard composting and partly to dispel some of the overly technical advice people were giving on how to compost properly, I wrote a small book for the County of Annapolis in Nova Scotia back in the early 1990’s. A second edition was paid for by the Resource Recovery Fund Board of Nova Scotia, with my colleague Glenn Munroe doing a great job of editing and re-writing sections.
The book is available as a free download (http://www NULL.rrfb NULL.com/pdfs/RRFB_BYC_booklet NULL.pdf) at the RRFB site. It has stood the test of time with its message of “Relax. Don’t Worry. Compost Happens.” If you are thinking of beginning to compost your organic waste in your yard, have a look, there is a lot of good advice in there.