NEW - Meet the microbes! Shig Matsukawa, Bokashi expert and community leader, welcomes Master Composter trainees for a site tour at Down to Earth Garden, emphasizing how Bokashi (a Japanese fermentation process) benefits the composting process.
NEW - Join us for a tour of Red Hook Compost Site at Red Hook Farms to learn about the history and current operations of the largest fossil fuel free compost site in the country. We manage 20,000 square feet of space with solar power and human power composting on farm with outdoor windrows, tumblers, and 4 ASP pipes.
NEW - Join us for a tour of Red Hook Compost Site at Red Hook Farms to learn about the history and current operations of the largest fossil fuel free compost site in the country. We manage 20,000 square feet of space with solar power and human power composting on farm with outdoor windrows, tumblers, and 4 ASP pipes.
Visit BBG's community-scale demonstration bins and mid-scale horticultural waste recycling system. Learn how the garden uses compost to sustain its plant collections.
NEW - Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost spaces of Queens Botanical Garden, making connections between different scales of composting, seeing tools and systems up close, and interacting with active compost piles. This tour will happen during QBG's Halloween at the Garden Event, so stick around for an afternoon of festive, spooky Halloween fun
NEW - Want to join us on a tour of the industrial-scale compost site located on Staten Island? Join the waitlist and we will contact you if there is a spot available for you! If you cannot make it this time join the waitlist anyway so we can gauge interest for future field trips!
Visit BBG's community-scale demonstration bins and mid-scale horticultural waste recycling system. Learn how the garden uses compost to sustain its plant collections.
NEW - Come visit Battery Park City and tour its composting programs! Learn about how Battery Park City Authority produces over 75,000lbs of compost a year from it’s community and 36 acres of green space. This tour will cover the BPCA’s compost program’s indoor composting facility, food scrap composting program, compost tea brewing, and BPCA’s pioneering dog waste composting program.
Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost demo site at Snug Harbor and the rest of the Snug Harbor grounds.
NEW - Master Composters will tour the QBG farm to experience how compost made on site is used on the farm to rebuild soil health and supply crops with essential nutrients, demonstrating the link between urban compost and sustainable farming. Participants will also learn how to make and use compost tea and extract.
Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost demo site at Snug Harbor and the rest of the Snug Harbor grounds.
Visit BBG's community-scale demonstration bins and mid-scale horticultural waste recycling system. Learn how the garden uses compost to sustain its plant collections.
Newtown Creek is the only facility within the five boroughs where you can experience NYC's water infrastructure. Participants will learn how organic waste is turned into biofuel as well as how composting and water infrastructure work hand in hand to improve the city's climate resiliency.
NEW - Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost spaces of Queens Botanical Garden, making connections between different scales of composting, seeing tools and systems up close, and interacting with active compost piles.
NEW - Join us for a tour of Red Hook Compost Site at Red Hook Farms to learn about the history and current operations of the largest fossil fuel free compost site in the country. We manage 20,000 square feet of space with solar power and human power composting on farm with outdoor windrows, tumblers, and 4 ASP pipes.
134th Street Farm is the home to Harlem Grown's community composting site and 24/7 public food scrap drop-off site. Participants will learn how the farm recycles food scraps and garden trimmings, turning it into nutrient-rich compost for the farm!
134th Street Farm is the home to Harlem Grown's community composting site and 24/7 public food scrap drop-off site. Participants will learn how the farm recycles food scraps and garden trimmings, turning it into nutrient-rich compost for the farm!
Visit BBG's community-scale demonstration bins and mid-scale horticultural waste recycling system. Learn how the garden uses compost to sustain its plant collections.
Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost demo site at Snug Harbor and the rest of the Snug Harbor grounds.
Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost spaces of Queens Botanical Garden, making connections between different scales of composting, seeing tools and systems up close, and interacting with active compost piles.
Take a tour of three communuity compost sites in West Harlem! Learn about the similarities and differences between each site's composting systems and procedures. Accessibility notes: Total walking time 20 minutes; Total distance 0.9 miles; Route includes some steep hills; Bathrooms available at 2nd site; Pathways are wheelchair-accessible
Master Composters will tour the mid-scale compost demo site at Snug Harbor and the rest of the Snug Harbor grounds.
Join us for a tour of Red Hook Compost Site at Red Hook Farms to learn about the history and current operations of the largest fossil fuel free compost site in the country. We manage 20,000 square feet of space with solar power and human power composting on farm with outdoor windrows, tumblers, and 4 ASP pipes.
NEW - Learn about the histories of growing food, composting, and living in Bedford Park and Norwood during our second Bronx Food and Farm Tour of 2023! This 1.3-mile walking tour will begin at the historic Keeper’s House, visit the Museum of Bronx History at the historic Valentine-Varian House, pass through Mosholu Parkland, and close at the James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center Community Farmers Market (JBOLC) at DeWitt Clinton High School. Participants will learn about the histories of each of these spaces, as well as how people are transforming them to grow food and community today. All of these sites are Food Scrap Drop-Off locations.
Come on an informative tour of The NYC Compost Project Hosted by Big Reuse's Gowanus Compost Site! You will learn about how compost is made in NYC and get to learn about our mid-scale compost system. Come get all your compost related questions answered!
Join LES Ecology Center and community compost leaders for two site visits in one field trip! Rainer from M'finda Kalunga and Penny from Liz Christy garden will share about their sites' histories, make comparisons, and show daily operations.
Visit BBG's community-scale demonstration bins and mid-scale horticultural waste recycling system. Learn how the garden uses compost to sustain its plant collections.
Want to join us on a tour of the industrial-scale compost site located on Staten Island? Join the waitlist and we will contact you if there is a spot available for you! If you cannot make it this time join the waitlist anyway so we can gauge interest for future field trips!
Come on an informative tour of The NYC Compost Project Hosted by Big Reuse's Gowanus Compost Site! You will learn about how compost is made in NYC and get to learn about our mid-scale compost system. Come get all your compost related questions answered!
Join us for a tour of Red Hook Compost Site at Red Hook Farms to learn about the history and current operations of the largest fossil fuel free compost site in the country. We manage 20,000 square feet of space with solar power and human power composting on farm with outdoor windrows, tumblers, and 4 ASP pipes.
