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(Photo by Prospect Farm)With the Department of Sanitation’s organics curbside collections expanding [/curbside-composting-coming-brooklyn-neighborhoods/] to Fort Greene, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Kensington, and more — many lucky Brooklynites don’t have to travel to compost this summer. (See if your neighborhood and building will get the brown compost bin
Central Brooklyn
Looking for ways to give back in the new year? Local organization Compost for Brooklyn is looking for new volunteers. Margaret Dunn-Carver, volunteer coordinator, writes, > Give back in the new year by volunteering with us! We have open spots for experienced and new volunteers. The commitment is only 2
Compost for Brooklyn
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThis week, celebrate the arrival of fall with a free tree at Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] (Newkirk Avenue & E. 8th Street) on Sunday, October 11 from 12-2pm. If you want your very own free tree, please reserve your tree online here [http://compostforbrooklyn.
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Neighbors, Compost for Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn] 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
Compost for Brooklyn
Celebrate the changing of the seasons at Compost for Brooklyn’s [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] annual Spring Plant Sale this Sunday, May 3 from 12pm-4pm. The folks at the community garden let us know they’ll have flowers — including coleus, petunias, marigolds, and salvia — basil, herbs and more. The sale will
Compost for Brooklyn
Photo via Compost for Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1428500300./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] This week, celebrate the arrival of spring with a free tree at Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] (Newkirk Avenue & E. 8th Street) on Sunday, April 12 from 12-2pm.
Bally's Total Fitness
[http://instagram.com/p/xpCaYEx9cm/?modal=true]Photo via davidpexton [http://instagram.com/p/xpCaYEx9cm/?modal=true] To keep up with all the news from the neighborhood, like us on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/DitmasParkCorner], follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/#!/DPCornerblog], Pinterest [http://pinterest.com/dpcorner/], and
Compost for Brooklyn
There is a ton happening this weekend, including the last Church Avenue sidewalk sales event of the year [/blog/business/last-church-avenue-sidewalk-sales-event-year-weekend], two huge yard sales – the Popcorn multi-family yard sale [/blog/events/annual-popcorn-multi-family-yard-sale-saturday-october-18] and the Prospect Park South biennial yard sale (which includes more than 40 participating houses both Saturday
Compost for Brooklyn
Happy Thursday! This weekend, you can see how people are trying to live smaller [/blog/events/all-souls-bethlehem-church-to-host-free-screening-of-tiny], hang out with thousands of your neighbors at the Flatbush Avenue Street Fair [/blog/events/flatbush-avenue-street-fair-this-sunday], have a glass of mint iced tea at the Compost for Brooklyn iced tea party [/blog/garden/
Compost for Brooklyn
Need a little more green in your life? Neighbors are invited to pick up a free tree at Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/], thanks to the New York Restoration Project [http://www.nyrp.org/Greening_Sustainability/MillionTreesNYC/Tree_Giveaways], this Sunday, April 6 from 12-2pm at the garden on
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Bring the kids to Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] this Saturday, February 22 from 11am-1pm to have some crafty fun — and to learn a little something about our feathered neighbors. Families will get to make your own pine cone bird feeders [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/events/] at this free, outdoor
Compost for Brooklyn
[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151410603122729&set=pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1381415033.&type=3&theater] If you’ve been looking to add some green in your life, you’re in luck! Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org] is holding a Fall tree giveaway next Sunday, October
Compost for Brooklyn
Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/], the garden on the corner of Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street, has just added open hours for compost collection on Thursdays through the end of August. They accept residential food scraps only (no dairy, meat, bones, woody material, lawn clippings, “compostable” dinnerware, or
Compost for Brooklyn
Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] is back! The garden on the corner of Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street will be open again to collect food scraps for composting for the summer, and their first open hours are on Saturday, June 8 from 11am-1pm. Neighbors are welcome to bring
Events
Join Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] at the garden on Newkirk and E 8th St this Saturday, March 30 from 11-2pm to help finish up renovations [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151810810937729&set=a.10150170945787729.365436.333868227728&type=1] in preparation for their new compost
Compost for Brooklyn
Compost for Brooklyn [http://compostforbrooklyn.org/] 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