Clever Urban Composting with Kat Lavers

Next date: Sunday, 20 September 2026 | 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM

Join permaculture educator Kat Lavers at Central Ringwood Community Centre’s Community Day.

In this workshop we’ll look at compost, worms and bokashi, plus other simple ways to recycle prunings and food scraps into free compost, fertiliser and mulch for your garden or pot plants. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each system, how to avoid common mistakes and troubleshooting. Find the right approach for your context including options for renters and apartments.

Compost like a pro – while keeping it simple!

Event details

• Date: Sunday 20 September
• Time: 10.30am to 1pm
• Venue: Central Ringwood Community Centre, Rosewarne Lane, Ringwood (Room Five, enter through the back garden)
• Presenter: Kat Lavers
• Cost: Free
• Registrations are essential
• Auslan interpreters available upon request

Register online

Presenter

Kat Lavers is a well-known permaculture educator, who specialises in small space food production. 

Her work reconnects people with the land, and possibilities, beneath their feet, helping transform postage stamp courtyards into pockets of abundance.

Kat’s urban system The Plummery is a tiny 1/14th acre (280m2) suburban block that pumps out almost all the household’s veggies, herbs, fruit and quail eggs – reaching 450kg of produce in 2020!

You may have spotted Kat in RetroSuburbia, Gardening Australia, Happen Films, ABC Radio National Big Ideas, ABC Radio Melbourne, Sustain: The Australian Food Network, 3CR Radio, RRR Radio, Gardening Australia magazine, Renew magazine, Green magazine, Earth Garden magazine, PIP magazine, The Age/SMH, Gestalten’s ‘Urban Farmers: The Now (and How) of Growing Food in the City’ and ‘Urban Homesteads’ by Rebecca Gross.

More information about this event

For more information please contact Council's Waste Education Officer on 03 9294 5529 or email waste.education@maroondah.vic.gov.au.

Other Waste and Sustainability events

Council offers a range of free waste education initiatives including waste minimisation and recycling workshops, composting workshops, online webinars, waste and recycling competitions, and educational presentations for schools and community groups.

See all waste events and workshops

When

Location

Central Ringwood Community Centre - Room Five, Rosewarne Ln, Ringwood, 3134, View map