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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><B>Local Artist Uses Recycled Agricultural Metal
in Public Art Sculpture at the Moscow Food Co-op</B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">A new public art sculpture made entirely of
recycled agricultural metal is now on display outside the Moscow Food Co-op on
the wall facing the Co-op parking lot. The artwork, created by local artist Lori
Hay of Tekoa Wash., depicts compostable material added to the Co-op’s giant
Earth Tub composter, which is then put back in the earth to grow food.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">Hay, whose artwork celebrates agricultural life,
uses recycles scrap metal from her fifth-generation farm and other farms in the
area in all of her artwork. (http://lorihay.smxus.com/).</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">The Co-op’s Earth Tub, named “Eartha,” began
making compost on November 28, 2007 and is the Palouse region’s first commercial
composting machine. The giant composter—measuring four feet tall, eight feet in
diameter, and three cubic yards in volume—is turning the Co-op's biodegradable
waste into garden-ready compost, which will divert more than 20 tons of
compostable material from the local landfill each year (approximately 100-150
pounds a day). </P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">The Earth Tub, a demonstration project funded by a
grant for $15,000 from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was purchased
and installed through a partnership between the Moscow Food Co-op, the
Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI), and Moscow Recycling. The
public sculpture was purchased and installed as part of the EPA grant. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">The Co-op is located at 121 East Fifth Street in
downtown Moscow.</P>
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