Lend Your Hand At Compost For Brooklyn This Summer

Neighbors, Compost for Brooklyn needs our help!

The compost garden at Newkirk Avenue and E. 8th Street is run entirely by amazing volunteers, but that volunteer base has been stretched very thin. Despite the group’s ongoing efforts to recruit help, they don’t have enough regular volunteers to keep their regular compost drop-off hours open — and they’re now considering scaling back their hours for the summer, the group let us know.

If you’re able to lend a hand, you’d be supporting an incredible community project — each year, for example, the garden’s small core of volunteers provide hundreds of free trees to the community, compost hundreds of pounds of food scraps from neighbors each month, and lovingly maintain the green space for anyone to enjoy every week.

Plus, they understand that you’re busy — you only have to commit to two hours a shift.

To volunteer, all you have to do is sign up here. For more information about volunteering, you can visit Compost for Brooklyn’s website.