Compost garden display
opens at Park and Tilford

DURING  LIFE’S trying
periods, one tries aot to
lapse into bitterness, but it’s
not always easy.

That was the case last Saturday,
when, after approxiinately four
weeks of consistently sunny, hot,
pleasant weather, the day for the
opening of the North Van Com-
post Demonstration Garden arriv-
ed and the heavens opened.

Lying in bed early Saturday
morning, listening to the
downpour that would soon turn
into a rather awe-inspiring
hailstorm, I tried to be happy for
the forest, badly in need of a
long-overdue rain. [I tried to cheer
rayself by thinking of the boost
this would give our drinking water
reservoirs. It didn’t work.

However, I had underestimated
the hardiness of the North Shore
people, who aren’t daunted by the
prospect of getting a bit sodden.

A good number of gardeners
and would-be composters turned
out to the ribbon-cutting for the
new composter site, located in the
southeast corner of the Park and
Tilford Garden on Main Street in
North Vancover.

The skies cleared long enough
for everyone to ge a good look at

Peggy
Trendell-Whittaker

ECOINFO

the composters on display and to
have their gardening questions an-
swered by City Farmer’s Mike
Levenston and North Shore News
columnist Geoff Tobiasson.

If you’re in the market for a
composter, visit the garden while
the spring bulbs are still bloom-
ing. Composting information is
posted, along with phone numbers
for further information.

Many thanks to Park and
Tilford head gardener Todd Ma-

Our Green Planet

Recipes for a cleaner, healthier environment

Recycied Paper

Anexcellent way to demonstrate the process
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jor for all his help with the pro-
ject, Park and Tilford’s Gisela
Dustan for her assistance with the
Saturday opening festivities, and
to the neighboring Save-On-
Foods for donating the munchies.

The next environmental unveil-
ing is of the North Shore's tele-
phone book recycling program.

While we’re not planning an of-
ficial ceremonial toss of the tele-
phone tome into a collection bin,
we are encouraging people to keep
their old phone books out of the
trash.

There are about 60,000 house-
holds on the North Shore, each
with a yellow pages and a white
pages. That’s !20,000 books,
which, if I’ve done my calcuia-
tions correctly, would form a pile
nearly five kilometres high if
stacked on top of each other.

Here’s another way to look at
it: the phone books are 28 cm
long. Combining yellow and white
pages that’s 56 cm per household.

The North Shore’s 120,000
Phone books, laid end to end,
would form a line 3,360,000 cm

Friday, April 10, 1992 - North Shore News - 9

NEWS photo Stuart Davis
CITY FARMER’S Michael Levenston (left), Muriel VanLaar (centre,
turning up compost) and Green Team member Sue Diewert in-
spect the display at Park and Tilford.

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