The City of Pleasant Hill is hosting Free backyard composting workshops and offering residents high-quality compost bins for only $40!

These bins normally retail for $129 but for those who attend a workshop you get them for $40.

Composting your yard trimmings and food scraps is easy, great for your yard and garden, kind to our environment and good for you too! Save money, save water, and conserve natural resources.

Find out how - attend a free workshop - register now by calling Annette Kaufmann at 925-671-5265 or sign up online at www.ci.pleasant-hill.ca.us/compost.

Compost bins are regularly $75 for residents and $100 for non-residents but residents who attend a composting workshop only pay $40.

Dates for upcoming compost workshops at the Large Community Room at City Hall, 100 Gregory Lane are:

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 (at the Pleasant Hill Library); and
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

All workshop are from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.