Learn About Composting Day
Learn About Composting Day is held on May 29. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. 
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Washington is best known as a Founding Father and the President of the USA. What’s not as well known was that he had an early appreciation for the soil – abandoning the cultivation of tobacco because it ruined the fertility of the land- and was an avid composter, performing experiments to find the best way to turn dung into compost.
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