You can drop off your compost at the Fort Greene Saturday Market, thanks to a small core of volunteers who put their heads together and decided this was important. Here is who is making this happen:
Alice Hartley
Charlie Byron
Karmin Gudzer (The Greenmarket Manager, which I suppose makes her not a volunteer)
Seth Orman
Amanda Hickman
Roy Arezzo
Kevin Winkler
John W from NYRP has pitched in, so have Farmer Ted and Farmer Hector. If you want to get something going at your greenmarket, get in touch. If you want to help make the Fort Greene project work, also you should get in touch. We don't have a ton to do (you might have seen us standing around at the bin) but we probably will eventually have plenty to do. In the meantime, Compost!
These are the guidelines we use at Greene Acres ...
*C O M P O S T*
Looking for a place to compost? You can also join Greene Acres as a composting member -- no meetings, no open hours, no obligations, you just get a place to bring your compost. If you help out by maintaining the bins and turning the compost, you can take a bit home for your own use. A compost membership is $5, which we use to pay for keys, signs, outreach and hardware. If you don't want your own key, you can bring compost by for free anytime the garden is open.
*Compost Guidelines:* Only add kitchen waste to the metal bins near the gate. Yard waste should go in the big open bins. Add your scraps and cover them with a layer of sawdust. Make sure you replace the lid--it keeps the rats out.
*Okay to Compost*
vegetable scraps, fruit peels, coffee grounds & filters, tea bags, dirty napkins, bread, cereal, egg shells, paper plates,
*Not Okay*
pet waste, kitty litter, bones and meat, plastic bags, rubberbands, foam trays, plastic plates, bbq ashes
Community members have volunteered to bring you this list and reduce waste in Brooklyn/NYC. All the sites below accept food waste for composting year round. Many sites also create finished compost for public use. This is a first updated contact info and new sites will be addedsoon. Please Contact Roy or Amanda at http://brooklynlocal.info/ for more info.
For all sites please refer to the "list of acceptable materials":node/5 on the back of this sheet!
1. Compost at the Fort Greene Farmer's Market!
Food waste can be dropped off at the Fort Greene Farmers Market, Corner of Dekalb and Washington Park, every Saturday between the hours of 9 am and 3 pm. There is a labeled pail with a lid and you are asked to dump waste but do not put any trash or plastic bags in the pail. The waste is brought to one of the three local gardens (2-5) listed below or sent back with local farmers.