Carver County Master Gardeners, in partnership with the Carver County Environmental Center, built a 500 square foot permanent compost demonstration site at the Environmental Center. The demonstration site includes ten unique compost designs, an information table and plexiglass compost display inside the facility, and educational signs that include the Green Guardian logo on all kiosks. The site has been open for tours since October 2006. Newspaper ads, circulated to 24,000 households, helped promote the site. Hundreds of people have visited. Seventy students in Chaska High School’s biology classes used the demonstration site for compost education. Four community composting classes were held at the site in the summer educating 68 people in depth. Eighty-seven percent of people who completed surveys about the new site noted they will buy or build a compost bin because of the education they received at the compost site.