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A collection of 19 issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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