A Compost Alex Member and Worm Castings

Compost Alex

PARKner with us, bring composting to City parks.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,020 + Volunteers

Pumpkin Composting

We must dispose of our Jack O'Lanterns after Halloween, but where? Pumpkins can become fertilizer for gardens in the Spring if we compost them in the Fall. Don't throw Jack O'Lanterns into a landfill.
NEEDS: $0 of 55 + Volunteers

Expand BUGS Compost Program

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 7,841 + Volunteers

Baltimore Compost Collective Expansion

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 23,502 + Volunteers

Homeslice Compost

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 487 + Volunteers

Revamp of Friends' Garden & Compost Site

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,471 + Volunteers
Rosa Keller Library food waste collection

Compost NOW in 2020

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,340 + Volunteers
PVCG Members

East Harlem Double Composting HOTBOX System

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. 

NEEDS: $0 of 4,096 + Volunteers
Rosa Keller Library Food Waste Collection

Big Easy Composting

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!

NEEDS: $0 of 1,531 + Volunteers
Walk with Amal and Queen GreenFeen

Queen GreenFeen Teaches Compost Education Through Hip Hop

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,805 + Volunteers

BLACK GOLD

Lets beautify and reclaim the community by turning food waste into BLACK GOLD!

NEEDS: $0 of 720 + Volunteers

Never Leaf Home

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. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,020 + Volunteers

Healthy Soil Builds Strong Communities

Help BUGS middle school students expand the composting, waste reduction, and food growing projects that contribute to healthy and sustainable communities.

 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,152 + Volunteers
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Stamford Food Scrap Recycling Initiative

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,550 + Volunteers
Mapes Garden Beds Spring 2022

Mapes Avenue Garden ReBuild

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,324 + Volunteers

River Garden Tree Pit Project

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 120 + Volunteers

Less = More Green Map of NYC

 

Amplifying practical solutions, the Less = More Green Map of NYC highlights local waste reduction sites and strategies with handy neighborhood and citywide interactive maps.

NEEDS: $0 of 469 + Volunteers

A Workshop for the Community

At Chenchita's Community Garden, we will install a rain harvest roof, allowing us to collect water and host FREE workshops for the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 780 + Volunteers

462 Halsey Community Garden

We're expanding our rain barrel system by at least three more barrels, expanding our compost curing stations, and hoping to build a small greenhouse.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,245 + Volunteers

La Paloma Garden Walk

Residents of La Paloma are collaborating with Barry University students, faculty, and staff to create a 1-mile gardenwalk, design and fabricate dove sculptures, and encourage healthy eating, walking, and community. 

NEEDS: $0 of 8,500 + Volunteers

Nurture by Nature

Reviving a neglected playground and empowering a local community from the ground up.

NEEDS: $0 of 7,150 + Volunteers

5 PM Group Community Garden

A community space where one can find serenity, take a walk on the trails, learn about growing vegetation, healthy living, and mindfulness.

NEEDS: $0 of 10,076 + Volunteers

Joy, The Project

A Living Archive of African Atlantic Agriculture and Foodways

NEEDS: $0 of 21,739 + Volunteers

Let's build a healthier, greener Brownsville

Let's empower students & families in central Brooklyn's food deserts to beautify, compost, build edible gardens & healthy places & joyful farm stands to turn gray into green 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,146 + Volunteers

Feeding the 5,000: Oakland

Sustainable America is partnering w/ NRDC, Food Shift, Grace Communications & Nor. Cal. Recycling Assoc. on a Feeding the 5,000 event in Oakland on 10/18. It will rescue food from being wasted and feed 5,000 people.

NEEDS: $0 of 270 + Volunteers
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Mill Brook Garden- Programming and beautification

Mill Brook Garden's Guardians of the Garden assisted in the construction of the first phase of the project. They build a communal and garden space for residents of the development and community members.

NEEDS: $0 of 450 + Volunteers
Garden area. Tree.

BKMSCC and Saratoga Library Community Garden

We will revamp a vacant library garden to provide a community space. We will provide hands on learning of environment and gardening by teaching health and sustainability. We will collectively create a greenspace.

NEEDS: $2,085 of 2,095 + Volunteers
Tehuti Maat Garden Organic Food for the People project

Organic Food for the People

Invest in the transformation of this Brooklyn community garden into an organic urban farm!

NEEDS: $0 of 1,290 + Volunteers
Drop-off Recycling

Old Brooklyn Recycles

Making recycling accessible to neighbors in Old Brooklyn, Cleveland. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,237 + Volunteers

Evergreen Lots' EL Garden

Transforming a vacant lot into a community garden that will provide a place for members of the community to safely and productively gather, participate in and learn about growing and eating healthy food. 

NEEDS: $0 of 300 + Volunteers

Urban Orchard

The Urban Orchard is intended to provide a place of beauty while also providing accessible organic fruit for the residents in a low-income blighted neighborhood in the Klondike area of Memphis.

NEEDS: $0 of 462 + Volunteers
Visitors tour a garden in the city of Cleveland.

GardenWalk Cleveland 2017

GWC organizes free tours of private and community gardens in the city of Cleveland. Visitors explore neighborhoods and see how much the city is "greening." In 2017 Detroit-Shoreway and Collinwood is our focus.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,795 + Volunteers

From the Roots to the Leaves

From the Roots to the Leaves. This project is about creating a bridge between our youth and seniors in green spaces.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,000 + Volunteers

Homewood Agricultural Project

 Turning vacant lots in Pittsburgh into hands-on opportunities for organic farming.

NEEDS: $0 of 225 + Volunteers

Art in the Garden 2017

We believe in investing in the social-emotional growth of the youth in our community. 

NEEDS: $0 of 5,520 + Volunteers
Lydia's Magic Garden

Lydia's Magic Garden

After redevelopment, LMG lost the majority of its plantings and was littered with debris. Volunteers will build grow beds for vegetables & fruits, plant flowers, install a shed, and create seating areas.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,550 + Volunteers

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