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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 Gardens [https://www.facebook.com/Qgardenscommunity/photos/pcb.437183536467321/437183419800666/?type=3&theater] Put 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 [https://qgardenscf.wordpress.com/], a community

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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 Foran [https://www.flickr.com/photos/krystyn_wukiegrl/6322307857]Now 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

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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 Pinamonti [http://pinamonti.com/photo-album/red-hook/]Happy Monday, neighbors! This week, you can kick back at Sycamore’s Flatbush Food Court [http://www.sycamorebrooklyn.com/flatbush-food-court/], see a whole lotta live music at Bar Chord [http:

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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 Grimm [https://www.facebook.com/GrimmAles/photos/pb.446401378776369.-2207520000.1431376873./755169741232863/?type=3&theater] Happy Monday, neighbors! This week, you can join your neighbors at a CB 14 meeting [/blog/politics/learn-more-about-our-neighborhood-address-concerns-at-the-community-board-14-meeting-on-monday-may-11]

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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 [/blog/garden/years-organizing-neighborhood-volunteers-debut-q-gardens-inaugural-cleanup] Q Gardens (located behind the Church Avenue B/Q subway station on

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

[https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1420815992./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] Photo via Compost for Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1420815992./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] If you’re looking for a place to get rid of your food scraps, Compost for Brooklyn

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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 [http://eastfourthstreetgarden.tumblr.com/] (between Caton and Fort Hamilton) each Saturday from 11am to 1pm, beginning November 8. You’ll be able to

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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 [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/compost/compostproj_mastercomposter_course.shtml#dates] was developed by the NYC Compost

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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 [http://eastfourthstreetgarden.tumblr.com/] on East 4th between Caton and Fort Hamilton, where they will be composted. The

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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 [/green/organic-waste-pilot-program-set-to-begin-october-7] by the city, but until that takes off across NYC [/blog/green/will-required-composting-in-brooklyn-work], those looking to turn their food scraps into compost in the Ditmas Park area will

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Compost For Brooklyn Adds Thursday Open Hours

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

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

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

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Learn to Compost at Brooklyn Botanical Garden

[/green/learn-to-compost-at-brooklyn-botanical-garden/attachment/bin1] Are you interested in composting? The Master Composter Certification Course [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/html/compost/compostproj_mastercomposter_course.shtml] deadline is February 15th. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden [http://www.bbg.org/] and NYC Department of Sanitation collaborate on this “train-the-trainer” program. During the

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Bring Bags of Fall Leaves to Project LeafDrop Locations

The annual Project LeafDrop [http://nycleaves.org/], 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

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Banana, Chili, Poblano

photo via GAPGreenmarket [http://instagram.com/p/NV_fKOgy24/] It’s Saturday, which means it’s GAP Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/grandarmygreenmarket] 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 [http:

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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