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.
We have a new campaign! Click this link for our latest project!
Help us create easily understood signs and brochures for our compost project and native plant garden for our diverse, multi-lingual neighbors!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Compost NOW has diverted over 300,000 pounds of food waste from the landfill since we began. We want to continue - and expand - our free, weekly food waste collections throughout 2020.
We have experienced an increase in food scrap drop off since the pandemic. We need a new system to handle this amount of processing . The dual hotbox bin system will provide us the relief our volunteers need.
From garbage to garden: help us expand our New Orleans food waste collection & compost service to four Library sites this Spring. Our goal: 10,000 pounds diverted in our first 6 months!
Costume character, uses Hip Hop in interactive ways to promote and encourage participation in NYC Organics Recycling, test residents' knowledge and teach communities about sustainability through waste diversion.
Urban Harvest Farm at Ujima is an urban farm community resource operated by Slow Food NYC. This project is to expand our composting efforts, high school internships, and community event programs.
Join our team to reduce school waste, provide needed compost for our garden and wildlife habitats, and give students an empowering, lasting way to improve their school community and environment.
Lets beautify and reclaim the community by turning food waste into BLACK GOLD!
Be the solution. Help reduce waste, conserve resources, and save money in our community by recycling food scraps into valuable compost.
We are educating and encouraging homeowners to create personal composting/mulching stations resulting in free soil and mulch for homeowners and a reduction in our carbon footprint and landfills.
Help BUGS middle school students expand the composting, waste reduction, and food growing projects that contribute to healthy and sustainable communities.
Stamford Food Scrap Recycling and the City of Stamford need your support to start a Food Scrap Recycling Program to reduce the amount of garbage sent to landfills by diverting our food scraps to compost.
Come join in us as we rebuild all our vegetable beds and install a compost system. Your support covers purchasing lumber, soil, plants, garden equipment and funding community workshops.
The creation of a small biodigester/reactor to understand and measure the benefits of CH4 gas derived from a green source for wide-scale public use.
During the pandemic, Earth Matter brings Soil Start Farm to Harlem middle-schoolers, with the collaboration of HYPOTHEkids.
Most tree pits are used as garbage cans or to relieve dogs. We're teaching the importance of trees in our community and our role as stewards. Trees that are cared for help make a neighborhood beautiful and healthy.
Amplifying practical solutions, the Less = More Green Map of NYC highlights local waste reduction sites and strategies with handy neighborhood and citywide interactive maps.
We are building a compost center and a vertical garden using recycled bottles and a wood frame and cable system. This will allow many gardeners to grow herbs, greens and flowers, and to beautify the neighborhood.
At Chenchita's Community Garden, we will install a rain harvest roof, allowing us to collect water and host FREE workshops for the community.
Help continue to bring meaningful youth food justice internship opportunities to Bushwick Campus!
We want to extend our growing season to feed more people in the community!
This program to teach the basics and benefits of canning.
Help NYC neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy.
Renaissance needs to purchase recycling bins so we can reduce our school's waste, and promote a Green Agenda for our community!
Help us raise funds for 3 metal treeguards to protect gardens around newly planted street trees adopted by Sra. Petra, Sra. Lourdes and John.
Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can, is the beginning of a beautiful movement, trash cans that will live permanently in Astoria Park.
"Whole Person Whole Community Project: Cultivating Homes, People, Community, and Harvesting Hope"
The money raised will allow us to transport volunteers, tools, plants and compost to numerous gardens and tree pits throughout the Watershed.
