NEW - Composters get to do various tasks, which include building new composting piles, sifting compost and aerating a compost mounds with shovels and pitchforks, weeding, mulching, and site maintenance. Work gloves are provided, but it's best to dress to get a bit dirty, dress for the weather, and especially arrive with safe footwear.
NEW - Volunteers will help Glendale Community Garden collect and chop food scraps. Volunteers will also assist with maintaining the garden's various composting systems. Tools will be provided. Please wear closed toed shoes and clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
NEW - Volunteers will help garden members manage the three bin system!
Activities may include: collecting and processing new food scraps and horticultural waste, building new piles, turning/aerating bins, sifting, collecting browns, and general site management.
NEW - Join the West Side Community Garden as they will be harvesting compost and reorganizing their garden waste and leaf areas. This may include breaking down wooden/wire bins.
NEW - Composting requires a lot of work. Fortunately, composting is fun and it's a great way to help the planet and keeps us in shape. Help Lion's Den Community Garden by turning/aerating compost, sifting compost, securing browns and maintaining the composting bins.
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 the QBG Compost Team as they collect fall leaves from a local Queens park! The leaves will be used as a brown for QBG's compost piles throughout the year.
NEW - Help the NYC Compost Project Hosted by Snug Harbor by working with our Horticulture team to collect leaves around campus! You will help collect leaves using rakes and paper leaf bags, which will be used as browns for making compost.
NEW - Join the QBG Compost Team as they collect fall leaves from a local Queens park! The leaves will be used as a brown for QBG's compost piles throughout the year.
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 - Composters get to do various tasks, which include building new composting piles, sifting compost and aerating a compost mounds with shovels and pitchforks, weeding, mulching, and site maintenance. Work gloves are provided, but it's best to dress to get a bit dirty, dress for the weather, and especially arrive with safe footwear.
NEW - Join the Karol's Farm crew and Castle Hill Houses community-members to care for the street trees on Lacombe Avenue! Volunteers will collect debris, weed tree beds, apply mulch and compost, plant daffodils, and construct tree bed guards. This workday will coincide with an end-of-season community harvest and produce distribution.
NEW - Composters get to do various tasks, which include building new composting piles, sifting compost and aerating a compost mounds with shovels and pitchforks, weeding, mulching, and site maintenance. Work gloves are provided, but it's best to dress to get a bit dirty, dress for the weather, and especially arrive with safe footwear.
NEW - Friends of Corlears Hook and LES Ecology Center present a unique post-Thanksgiving activity! Master Composters will join this large park clean-up day. The primary task is harvesting leaves, but Master Composters will have access to special tasks such as applying compost, weeding, and planting bulbs.
NEW - Volunteer with Rusty Wheelbarrow Farm and help with their ongoing activities (composting, farm maintenance and harvest) and if time, help to build a rainwater catchment to water the farm in the summer! No need for gloves (they've got you), but don't forget hydration (and maybe a snack).
NEW - Volunteers will help Glendale Community Garden collect and chop food scraps. Volunteers will also assist with maintaining the garden's various composting systems. Tools will be provided. Please wear closed toed shoes and clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
NEW - Master Composters get to participate in the building of a compost windrow at Queens Botanical Garden’s mid-scale composting site. As they engage in the initial steps of processing organic waste, participants will gain knowledge in the management of material throughout the composting process.
NEW - Join the QBG Compost Team as they collect fall leaves from a local Queens park! The leaves will be used as a brown for QBG's compost piles throughout the year.
NEW - Join the QBG Compost Team as they collect fall leaves from a local Queens park! The leaves will be used as a brown for QBG's compost piles throughout the year.
NEW - Volunteer with Rusty Wheelbarrow Farm and help with their ongoing activities (composting, farm maintenance and harvest) and if time, help to build a rainwater catchment to water the farm in the summer! No need for gloves (they've got you), but don't forget hydration (and maybe a snack).
NEW - Composters get to do various tasks, which include building new composting piles, sifting compost and aerating a compost mounds with shovels and pitchforks, weeding, mulching, and site maintenance. Work gloves are provided, but it's best to dress to get a bit dirty, dress for the weather, and especially arrive with safe footwear.
NEW - Volunteers will help Glendale Community Garden collect and chop food scraps. Volunteers will also assist with maintaining the garden's various composting systems. Tools will be provided. Please wear closed toed shoes and clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
NEW - Join the Snug Harbor team distribute 40-lb bags of compost to NYC residents. We'll need your help checking in registrants, moving 40-lb bags of compost into residents' vehicles, and distributing leaf bags.
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 - Composters get to do various tasks, which include building new composting piles, sifting compost and aerating a compost mounds with shovels and pitchforks, weeding, mulching, and site maintenance. Work gloves are provided, but it's best to dress to get a bit dirty, dress for the weather, and especially arrive with safe footwear.
NEW - Composting requires a lot of work. Fortunately, composting is fun and it's a great way to help the planet and keeps us in shape. Help Lion's Den Community Garden by turning/aerating compost, sifting compost, securing browns and maintaining the composting bins.
NEW - Our street tree care series continues! Join the NYC Compost Project in cleaning street tree beds and amending their soil in the Crown Heights community!
NEW - Join us in taking care of street trees outside of Garden of Eden. We will clean, weed, lightly till and apply compost. We will also maintain the compost system inside Garden of Eden.
NEW - Join the West Side Community Garden as they will be harvesting compost and reorganizing their garden waste and leaf areas. This may include breaking down wooden/wire bins.
NEW - Solar power, activate! Apply compost and seeds to Seward Park's Native Flower Garden, where they will germinate under solarization plastic. No prior experience is necessary.
