Composting in Western Queens

Composting in western Queens will bring more materials, workshops, and infrastructure for composting to Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and Woodside.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,271

Urban Meadow Compost Project

Purchase composters to recycle garden waste into compost, reduce waste we throw out from the Meadow, pilot a household waste composting program

NEEDS: $0 of 862

Prospect Farm: Compost Collection Bins

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 843 + Volunteers

Composting the Five Borough Bike Ride

Composting the Five Borough Bike Tour will reduce waste being trucked out, and create compost for five school gardens.

NEEDS: $0 of 428 + Volunteers

Composting Class

Our compost project teaches the benefits of composting, provides bins and worms, and instructions on and how to start and keep a bin.

NEEDS: $0 of 115 + Volunteers

The Compost Fairy

We are looking to buy a utility trailer for compost pick up, to expand with collecting leafs and yard waste.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,266 + Volunteers

Junior Composter Course

The Junior Composter course is an internship for youth from underserved communities to engage in composting, urban agriculture, and environmental activism.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,262

Composting in North Brooklyn

Help us install a new fence that will help to keep us separated from our doggy friends next door and improve overall site operations.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,471 + Volunteers

Kids for Compost!

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 337

Island Compost

Island Compost is a public school recycling system created to reduce organic waste while increasing soil fertility on Governors Island.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,230 + Volunteers

Queens County Farm Compost Project

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 262 + Volunteers

Compost-o-rama

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,080 + Volunteers

Barnett Avenue Garden and Compost Area Expansion

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,290

Western Queens Compost Initiative

The WQCI is a dynamic partnership of CSA's, gardeners, and youth & civic associations, providing leadership, service, and education in composting!

NEEDS: $0 of 517

Brooklyn College Takes on Urban 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.

NEEDS: $0 of 775 + Volunteers

PS 11 Garden

Help us get a new composter for PS 11's school garden.

NEEDS: $0 of 316

From the Ground Up

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,065 + Volunteers

Myrtle Village Green

We’re seeking to purchase gardening equipment to transform an unused, vacant piece of city-owned land into a true community amenity where people can come together to garden, compost, and enjoy passive open space.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,000

St. Nicholas Miracle Garden

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. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,681 + Volunteers

Canning Workshop

This program to teach the basics and benefits of canning.

NEEDS: $0 of 144 + Volunteers

Nutritional Detectives

Nutrition Detectives helps kids measure and compare healthy food items.

NEEDS: $0 of 52

FREE eggs on the Free Range in Brooklyn!

Bushwick City Farm will raise organic free range chickens in Bushwick Brooklyn in order to provide the community with free organic eggs and chickening knowledge.

NEEDS: $0 of 500

Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can

Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can, is the beginning of a beautiful movement, trash cans that will live permanently in Astoria Park.

NEEDS: $0 of 425 + Volunteers

Farm to Table and Then Some

NYLP provides job-training experience to Newark high school youth in environmental fields. The "Farm to Table" theme gives students an inside look at our current food system.

 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,680

A Truck for the Trees!

The money raised will allow us to transport volunteers, tools, plants and compost to numerous gardens and tree pits throughout the Watershed.
 

NEEDS: $0 of 27,230 + Volunteers

Xquizit Greens at 143 Stockholm

Help us build a new people's garden in Bushwick. We'll be strengthening community and growing healthy, local economies at this positive social gathering point and greening action hub.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,877 + Volunteers

Beautify Lower Madison Avenue Neighborhood

We need funds to purchase fresh soil and compost to help young street trees thrive this spring and beautify busy pedestrian blocks. Help us transform our streetscape into a greener, more welcoming neighborhood.

NEEDS: $0 of 233
Sunset at the Garden

GARDEN TLC!

The Community Table Garden is in need of TLC repairs in our 3rd year of operation! We hope to amend our garden bed soil, improve our irrigation system, and build a shade stucture for our volunteers and visitors!

NEEDS: $0 of 2,610

Bushwick Library Community Garden

The Bushwick Public Library Children's Garden Project will protect green space, encourage gardening, and foster good stewardship practices.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,150 + Volunteers

Food for Thought

Students will create and maintain a vegetable garden, and develop awareness in healthful eating habits and a respect for the earth that provides us food.

NEEDS: $0 of 375

What's sprouting up at MS 88

Help establish the first community garden at a high needs middle school in Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $0 of 805 + Volunteers

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