Letting Things Rot: A Composting Workshop
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Letting Things Rot: A Composting Workshop

Join us for a composting workshop led by 2025 PMRCAA Resident Artist Camila de Andrade Bianchi.

By Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture

Date and time

Friday, June 13 · 11am - 12pm PDT

Location

68467 Three Creek Rd

68467 Three Creek Road Sisters, OR 97759

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Join us for this Composting Workshop with 2025 PMRCAA Resident Artist Camila de Andrade Bianchi!

Date: June 13th

Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Location: Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture


Join us at PMRCAA for this composting workshop with artist in residence Camila de Andrade Bianchi. Bring some of your own compostable food scraps and learn how to turn your garbage into nutrient-rich material for your garden!


Workshop Highlights:

Compost Demonstration: Participants will be invited to engage in hands-on composting activities, contributing their own food scraps and waste to the compost pile.

Time for Reflection: Camila will lead attendees through discussions on the regenerative potential of decay, and bring forth opportunities to reflect on the interconnected-ness of the human and non-human systems. Participants will be invited to reflect on what they would like to return to the earth.

Through Letting Things Rot, participants will engage, reflect, and connect with composting as a regenerative practice. They willl explore the art of composting as a means of ecological and social regeneration, inviting moments of contemplation and interconnectedness.


Suggested Materials to Bring:

  • 8 oz of your own saved organic compostable food scraps/waste


All other materials will be supplied.

For ages 16 and older. Those under age 16 may attend accompanied by an adult.


About the Instructor:

Camila de Andrade Bianchi is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work is driven by an anti-colonial practice of investigating human and more-than-human interdependence and its potential for promoting social and ecological regeneration.


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Located on a 260-acre working ranch in Sisters, Oregon, the vision of PMRCAA is to connect sustainable agriculture, conservation, arts, and sciences with traditional and contemporary crafts and skills integral to ranching life. Today, PMRCAA operates as a program of the Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation. For more information about the Roundhouse Foundation or PMRCAA please visit www.RoundhouseFoundation.org.