UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) —The Recycling Education
Program, a Penn State Coopera
tive Extension effort aimed at
keeping recyclable organic mater
ials out of landfills in southeastern
Pennsylvania, will celebrate the
start of its third year this May.
“Since May 1993, we’ve prom
oted backyard composting and
laiger-scale composting for land
scapers, farmers, and businesses,’’
said Sally Pick, recycling educa
tion director for Penn State
Cooperative Extension in Mont
gomery County. “We also give
technical assistance to municipali
ties and other medium- to large
scale composters.’’
The program also helps connect
generators of excess organic
materials with people who recycle
or compost organics. The prog
ram’s "Directory of Organic
Material Recycling and Compost
ing” lists SO Pennsylvania sites
that presently or in the future will
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Along with part-time assistant
Dorothy Thomas, Pick oversees
the county’s Master Composter
program, one of two in the state.
“So far, we’ve educated 36 people
about backyard composting,” she
said. “They in turn commit to 20
hours of community service work,
usually teaching others to
compost.”
“After the last of three training
sessions, we build a compost edu
cation park,” Pick said. Montgom
ery County now has three such
parks, which feature different
types of compost bins filled with
materials such as leaves and grass
to show composting in action.
Pick plans a variety of special
events at the parks for the 2Sth
annual Earth Day, April 22.
“Each park always offers visi
tors a self-guided tour of compost
bins and the composting process,”
she said. ‘There are also fliers
about bin construction and a bro-
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chure on the how-to’s of
composting.”
The Recycling Education Prog
ram also participates in applied
research to show the simplicity of
making and using compost A col
laborative effort with the Rodale
Institute is evaluating how well a
passively aerated windrow system
(PAWS) composts manure on
farms. This simple composting
method originally was developed
for composting fish wastes in
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Another project, supported by
the Ben Franklin Technology
Center of Southeastern Pennsyl
vania, studies compost as a potting
mix. “We’re seeing how well ger
aniums perform in three different
potting mixtures to see if the com
post has a beneficial effect,” she
said.
Pick, along with extension
agent Nancy Bosold and a consul
tant, also will evaluate the effects
of compost applied to vegetable
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“We want to compare compost
amended fields to fields without
compost to see if there’s any dif
ference in insect and disease con
trol,” she said.
Last summer, Pick helped a loc
al scout troop establish a system to
compost their camp’s cafeteria
waste. This summer, she plans to
help a local church begin com
posting. ‘The congregation has a
community garden they use to
Fund Seeks
Forestry
WARREN (Warren
Co.) —The Sandy
Cochran Memorial
Fund is seeking applica
tions for the funding of
educational projects that
will support good forest
management and the
forest industry in north
western Pennsylvania
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It’s a chance-to help needy people
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For more information about the
Recycling Education Program,
contact Penn State Cooperative
Extension in Montgomery Coun
ty, 1015 Bridge Road, Suite H,
Collegeville, PA 19426-1179,
(610) 454-1245.
To Support
Projects
and southwestern New
York.
The Cochran Fund
was established in the
memory of Roe “San
dy” Cochran, a former
Penn State forestry
extension agent.
According to Ray Mill
er, a consulting forester
from Wanen, "Cochran
Was widely known and
respected. He stressed
the importance of conti
nuing education and
understanding by all
those involved in fore
stry, from independent
loggers to mill opera
tors, from those in edu
cation to those in state
and federal
government”
Susan Stout, project
forester with the U.S.
Forest Service, points
out that “Cochran’s vis
ion for the forestry com
munity included safe
work procedures, the
application of best man
agement practices in the
forests, the cultivation
of promising markets
for local forest products,
the development and
application of the most
recent research results
and technologies, and
the creation of a policy
environment created by
informed political lead
ers.” According to
Stout, the Cochran
Memorial Fund is
intended to support pro
jects that further these
ends.
Two recently funded
projects include an
Allegheny National
Forest Forestry Forum
for the forest communi
ty sponsored by the
Allegheny National
Forest Coalition which
represents users of the
ANF and support to the
1994 Warren Area Log
gers and Sawmillers
Safety Competitions.
Each application must
show the connection
between the proposed
project and the purposes
of the fund. The dead
line for submission of
all project applications
and supporting informa
tion is May IS.
Applications for
funding can be obtained
from: The Sandy
Cochran Memorial
Fund, c/o Forestry Sci
ences Laboratory. PO
Box 928, Warren, PA
16365.