Composting
Composting
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Food Scrap Drop Off (FSDO) — Year Round
Food Scrap Drop Off (FSDO) — Year Round
Moore Jackson Community Garden's Composting Committee collects food scraps throughout the year. During colder months, the bins you see here will be outside our fence by our double gate on 51st Street between 31/32 Aves. Please only drop off scraps on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. This graphic gives you a list of what you can compost and what to avoid.
Moore Jackson Community Garden's Composting Committee collects food scraps throughout the year. During colder months, the bins you see here will be outside our fence by our double gate on 51st Street between 31/32 Aves. Please only drop off scraps on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. This graphic gives you a list of what you can compost and what to avoid.
We're always looking for new Composting Committee members. Sign up to volunteer.
Food scraps dropped off outside of that timeframe will be put in the trash. Please respect our volunteers' time and effort and don't leave bags by the fence. The food attracts animals and they rip open the bags you leave and make a mess for another volunteer to clean up. Not cool.
HOW WE COMPOST...
HOW WE COMPOST...
You put your food scraps in these bins on Saturday mornings and volunteers chop them up and create 'food scrap salsa,' ready for processing.
Volunteers then mix the food scraps (greens) with leaves (browns) with a 1:2 ratio and place the mixture into the green compost bins to transform into a nutrient-rich soil amendment.
We keep an eye on the compost bin's contents and temperature each week to ensure the right balance of nitrogen-rich "green" materials, carbon-rich "brown" materials, moisture, and air.
When the organic matter has been digested, or broken down, by microorganisms, it's transformed into a compost that improves garden fertility.
After we shovel the finished compost out of the bins, we sift it to achieve a more uniform product that promotes better root growth, enhances nutrient distribution, and improves soil aeration and water retention for plants.
We also make paca digestoras (digester bales) which is a composting process created by Guillermo Silva Pérez from Medellín, Colombia.
Come stomp on our current paca and see the most recent 'compost lasagna' for yourself!
And ask us about our latest addition to the Composting area, our hot box, built with the help of Nando Rodriguez!
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