Compost for Brooklyn is hosting volunteer workdays this winter to ready the compost system for upgrades and renovations. The community composting project will be working in the coming days, weeks and months “to make the local environment greener and healthier,” wrote Louise Bruce, by sifting, turning and bagging the compost

Image via Facebook The Daily News writes up a lovely profile of Compost for Brooklyn on Newkirk @8th street. From their conversation with Louise Bruce, founder of the place: Bruce first spotted the abandoned concrete patch littered with garbage while walking her fox terrier dog Olive past it in 2010.