In 2023, composting programs in NYC were defunded or shut down. However, Pleasant Village is committed to
transforming food waste into growth: Uniting Our Community for Sustainable Change.
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Groton Senior volunteers building community in a garden at the Senior Center in partnership with Eastern Connecticut Community Gardens Association and the town of Groton to increase agriculture.
Help us create easily understood signs and brochures for our compost project and native plant garden for our diverse, multi-lingual neighbors!
Build a raised garden bed where students can grow vegetables and learn to connect with and care for their environment.
Composting in western Queens will bring more materials, workshops, and infrastructure for composting to Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and Woodside.
Purchase composters to recycle garden waste into compost, reduce waste we throw out from the Meadow, pilot a household waste composting program
Enable composters to attend the next National Cultivating Community Composting Forum!
Good soil makes healthy plants I Good soil makes strong communities I Good soil makes our city ecologically strong
Good soil makes healthy plants I Good soil makes strong communities I Good soil makes our city sustainable
We want to build a 3 bin compost system to maximize our ability to collect compost, remediate the soil and improve the quality of what we grow in our garden.
Composting the Five Borough Bike Tour will reduce waste being trucked out, and create compost for five school gardens.
Our compost project teaches the benefits of composting, provides bins and worms, and instructions on and how to start and keep a bin.
We are looking to buy a utility trailer for compost pick up, to expand with collecting leafs and yard waste.
Help Gather New Haven (formerly known as the New Haven Land Trust) expand on our composting efforts at community gardens around the city and create a new composting track for the Growing Entrepreneurs youth program.
The Junior Composter course is an internship for youth from underserved communities to engage in composting, urban agriculture, and environmental activism.
Support compost drop-off for the whole community at the East 4th Street Community Garden
O2 Compost @ Brooklyn Grange will bring solar-powered composting to the world’s largest rooftop farm.
Support a compost garden in the Rockaways.
Help us install a new fence that will help to keep us separated from our doggy friends next door and improve overall site operations.
The pile is tucked in for the winter, but there is no stopping composting in North Brooklyn!
Help us turn our school lunch waste into soil we can use! With compost bins and supplies, we will reduce our environmental impact and learn about science.
Help BUGS middle school students transform garbage to treasure! With your support we can expand our composting capabilities, increase participation and understanding, and offer fun and engaging community programs.
Help us buy a tractor to manage the mountains of compost we're collecting and save our backs (and the Earth)!
Island Compost is a public school recycling system created to reduce organic waste while increasing soil fertility on Governors Island.
The compost bins will provide soil for the garden while engaging residents in discussions on waste reduction as part of the garden's community activities.
Educating Connecticut farmers and municipalities on composting and utilization to produce healthy soils, clean air and water, and a sustainable society.
Help us build a solar-powered greenhouse and expand our community compost operation! Our goal is to increase support to our network of community gardeners through expanded seedling and compost distribution.
Pali's EAST class wants to compost to promote green attitudes, reduce the amount of waste disposed of by the school, and lower the school's cost of waste disposal.
BUGS 6th & 7th grade students will compete in a new contest for the lowest per capita waste production during lunch time - working their competitive & academic muscles!
The Baltimore Compost Collective is fundraising to expand its operation in Baltimore and to be able to decrease the amount of waste burned by the incinerator.
Students and community will be working together to understand the physical impact of waste and to explore the option of waste reduction created by composting. From compost to growing, to food. Full Circle.
Bicycle Tour to experience food scrap drop-off locations across NYC, and connect with civically-minded participants to spread knowledge, learning, and plans-for-action.
Nurture BK Compost, a neighborhood food scrap collection and sustainability group, is raising funds to purchase new equipment to expand and sustain long-term operations in Flatbush.
Food waste wanted! Transform kitchen scraps into soil-enriching compost and nourish Mother Earth with everyday trash with Malcolm X Blvd Beautification, Shugah Baybees, and the Abyssinian Tot Lot.
We are planning to create an interactive compost site at the Queens County Farm Museum which help visitors connect with the farm in a direct way way while providing the Farm with rich vermicompost.
The jack 'o' lantern and leaf project is a sure way to bring in more members of our community and expand our compost education program.
We need your help to Revamp our Garden & Compost Site, allowing us to better serve the hundreds of people who come to learn and volunteer as we continue to grow and donate produce to those in need.
Green City Force and the NYC Compost Project Hosted by Big Reuse are partnering for a two part organics recycling outreach event at Queensbridge Houses, NYCHA.
This project will better serve the community by create more available gardening space for community members, and allow us to better serve the community with a larger compost intake area.
The WQCI is a dynamic partnership of CSA's, gardeners, and youth & civic associations, providing leadership, service, and education in composting!
The Brooklyn College Composting project will construct a three bin composting system and provide basic gardening tools for digging compost into plots and help care for seven street trees.
From garbage to garden: help us expand our free, weekly residential food waste collections to at least 8 New Orleans Public Library sites. Our goal: 100,000 pounds diverted from the landfill in 2018.
