Tours
Tours of Inland Empire will showcase various successful community composting sites around Claremont, Pomona, and Ontario, California. This event is a private by-invitation-only tour for people who have already RSVP’d through ILSR’s Cultivating Community Composting Forum & Field Day event portal. Please use the links below to register on Eventbrite for the actual tours.
Hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Food Cycle Collective
Password for access to the Eventbrite is: soil
Tickets are first come, first served. Space is limited. Ticket pricing covers charter bus expenses. Thanks to our sponsors, we are able to offer this event with a sliding scale inspired pricing structure:
Standard ($35)
Standard group ($35 per ticket)
Equity (invest less, <$35)
Pay It Forward (invest more if you are able, >$35)
Tours A and B will both begin at the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies @ Cal Poly Pomona, 4105 S University Dr., Pomona, CA 91768. Please arrive on-time because buses will depart at 1 pm.
If you are not attending the morning field day, a bus will depart from OCC @ 12:30 p.m. and arrive at Cal Poly @ 1:00 p.m.
Tour A will have two drop-offs: one at the Lyle Center at ~5 pm and a second at the Ontario Convention Center at ~5:45 pm.
Tour B will only have a single drop-off at the Ontario Convention Center at 5 pm.
Tour A
Schedule*
1:00 pm – Bus departs Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
1:25-2:05 pm – Temple Beth Israel
Open pile system in conjunction with urban farm in the front yard at a synagogue. Stop will include live demo, as Tuesday is regular composting and collection day for Food Cycle Collective here.
2:20-2:25 pm – Sycamore Elementary
On-site composting system for a public elementary school processing ~150 lbs weekly
2:30-3:10 pm – Claremont Friends Meeting
Community drop-off model processing ~300 lbs weekly in hybrid 3-bin and open system at a church
3:30-4:00 pm – Harris Home
Home-based composting project with neighborhood involvement, local commercial collections and garden
4:20-4:50 pm – Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
Approximately 1000 lbs of processing weekly in open piles at a volunteer run site; within an orchard with a small emergent garden (with lots of rabbit pressure); also can see We Radiate probe in action here
5:15-5:20 pm – Drop off #1 at Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
5:40 pm – Drop off #2 at Ontario Convention Center
Tour B
Schedule*
1:00 pm – Bus departs Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
1:25-2:05 pm – Seeds of Joy
3-bin system processing 500-800 lbs weekly, plus a flow-through vermicomposting system, in a community garden
2:15-2:55 pm – Rebecca's Garden
Open pile system processing ~750 lbs weekly from 1 restaurant with bike collections and a community drop off at a church which has developed a large climate-adapted garden for community use
3:15-3:55 pm – Amy's Farm
Tractor-based composting with ~10 substantial piles in agricultural setting (and zoning)
4:10-4:50 pm – Huerta del Valle
Tractor-based composting with ~4 small windrows on concrete pad in the middle of a multi-acre farm and community garden project
5:05 pm – Drop off at Ontario Convention Center
* Times may change based on traffic.