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Domino Park Expands Composting Drop Off Site Starting June 1

When the city abruptly halted all composting initiatives as a cost-saving measure (with the announcement made just a couple of days before Earth Day) many residents were displeased, calling in on Brian Lehrer show to tell the Mayor just how much they did not like the move. Others decided to

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Drop Off Your Compostable Waste At Q Gardens

Photo by Q GardensPut your food scraps, plant/flower trimmings, and used newspaper to good use — right here in the neighborhood. Summer compost drop-off hours start this Wednesday at Q Gardens, a community garden on the corner of East 18th and Church Avenue. Compostable trash — like food scraps — makes up

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Volunteer With Compost For 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 hours

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Smash Your Pumpkins This Weekend In Red Hook

Photo by Krystyn Wukitsch ForanNow that Halloween has passed, it’s time to think about Thanksgiving turkeys and eventually prepping for Santa — but first, you’ve got to get rid of that jack o’ lantern that’s collapsing into itself on your stoop! Thankfully, there’s an event that makes

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Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Week

John Pinamonti will perform at Bar Chord on Tuesday, July 7. Photo via John PinamontiHappy Monday, neighbors! This week, you can kick back at Sycamore’s Flatbush Food Court, see a whole lotta live music at Bar Chord, take a free exercise class at Prospect Park, and more. If you

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Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Week

You can meet the brewers from Grimm Artisanal Ales at Sycamore on Tuesday from 6-8pm. Photo via GrimmHappy Monday, neighbors! This week, you can join your neighbors at a CB 14 meeting, meet the brewers from Grimm Artisanal Ales at Sycamore, learn about the history of garlic at The Farm

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Collect Your Scraps! Q Gardens To Launch Compost Project This Saturday, April 11

Volunteers carry the compost bin during the Q Gardens inaugural cleanup day. Photo by Nathan ThompsonThis Saturday, April 11, everyone’s invited to grab their kitchen scraps and head on over to the newly debuted Q Gardens (located behind the Church Avenue B/Q subway station on E. 18th Street)

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Get Rid Of Those Food Scraps At Compost for Brooklyn This Winter

Photo via Compost for Brooklyn If you’re looking for a place to get rid of your food scraps, Compost for Brooklyn (Newkirk Avenue at E. 8th Street) announced it will be offering winter compost hours on: Every Thursday, 2-4pmEvery second and fourth Saturday, 11am-1pm (January 10 and 24, February

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Bring Your Leaves To The East 4th Street Community Garden Starting In November

You know all those leaves starting to clutter up your yard? You can get rid of them and bring them to the East 4th Street Community Garden (between Caton and Fort Hamilton) each Saturday from 11am to 1pm, beginning November 8. You’ll be able to drop off your leaves

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Things To Do In Prospect Park In September

Summer may be wrapping up, but there’s still a ton happening in Prospect Park this month – including a family fishing clinic, a picnic for your pups, and a composting workshop! Here’s a list of the upcoming events in the park: Thursday, September 4 A family fishing clinic from

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Become A Master Composter At The Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Looking to start up a composting project at a local community garden, school, or on your block? Why not become a Master Composter? The NYC Compost Project Master Composter Certificate Course was developed by the NYC Compost Project and the DSNY Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling as a

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Drop Off Your Leaves At The East 4th Street Community Garden

If leaves are piling up in your yard and you’d like to see them turned into something good, rake them up and bring them to the East 4th Street Community Garden on East 4th between Caton and Fort Hamilton, where they will be composted. The garden will be collecting

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Where And When To Bring Scraps For Composting In Ditmas Park

Neighbors in Windsor Terrace are about to be part of a pilot program where organic waste will be collected curbside by the city, but until that takes off across NYC, those looking to turn their food scraps into compost in the Ditmas Park area will have to continue to rely

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Compost For Brooklyn Adds Thursday Open Hours

Compost for Brooklyn, 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 coconut shells) on

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Compost For Brooklyn Re-Opens To Collect Food Scraps Starting This Weekend

Compost for Brooklyn 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 food scraps that

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Learn to Compost at Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Are you interested in composting? The Master Composter Certification Course deadline is February 15th. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden and NYC Department of Sanitation collaborate on this “train-the-trainer” program. During the certification course held at the BBG, participants will learn: – the small-scale composting process – how to use finished compost – how to

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Bring Bags of Fall Leaves to Project LeafDrop Locations

The annual Project LeafDrop, where community gardens and other organizations collect leaves from neighbors to turn into compost, is now underway. If you’ve got a tree shedding its leaves into your area, once you’ve raked and bagged them into paper or clear plastic bags (just leaves – no branches,

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Banana, Chili, Poblano

photo via GAPGreenmarket It’s Saturday, which means it’s GAP Greenmarket day. Head over now through 4pm today for samples, demonstrations, and, obviously, produce. So much produce. And bring your scraps, both edible and wearable for composting/textile recycling. Someday, I will remember to do this, and then I

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Making Black Gold

This Garden Gourmet compost bin can be purchased from the Botanic Garden.I’m making black gold. You can too. I ordered a compost bin online as a birthday present for myself. My birthday came and went but the compost bin never arrived. I complained to a friend who mentioned