 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Report. Are you tired of bagging leaves every fall? Would you like a healthier lawn, more beautiful flower beds, and nutrient-rich soil for your garden? Would you like to own pet worms? If you said yes to any of those questions, then I have some good news for you. Composting news, that is, the compost outpost in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden wants to teach you just how easy it is to compost right in your own backyard. The compost outpost is a new revision of a compost outpost we already had, just in a new home. We wanted to bring it into a place where it would be more visible, more accessible, as well as it ties into the things that we're doing here at the backyard vegetable gardens. Worm compost bin is a new addition to the compost outpost. We do have classes in what it's called vermicomposting. A lot of people actually have bins that are underneath their sink that have the worms in them. It sounds really kind of gross, but it really isn't. You just put your organics into a little container and they can, you know, eat it and break it down. But here we actually have a bin that has been dug into the ground, and so you put the compost in it, if you build it, they will come. Classes will be held in the new education pavilion. Right here at the compost outpost, we do offer a class that is the second Saturday of the month from one to three, March through May and September through November. It's actually a come and go event. It's free. You don't have to register. You can just show up and get information about composting. The compost outpost also offers compost tea. I actually brewed a cup in. I'm really curious to find out what it tastes like. We also do have the compost tea brewer. Right now it's being kept in a shed, but what we're going to be doing is we'll have days where we brew compost tea, where people could come in and get compost tea and take it back home and put it into their garden. Pretty much what compost tea is, you're getting kind of an intense version of the liquid form of compost. And so you brew it into a batch and then you go and you kind of spread it along your soil and it brings in those helpful nutrients, the bacteria and things that are going to help your soil become more fertile. For more information about compost outpost, visit their website or just visit the Botanic Garden. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.