Open House (3rd Annual!)

FREE COMPOST WORKSHOP AND PUMPKIN SMASH

A fun local event (not sponsored by the CSA but we sure do like them!)–

SunnyCompost invites you to its 3rd Annual Open House on Sunday, November 9, 2014 from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.

November is here and SunnyCompost wants to celebrate with YOU and your food scraps, your leaves, and your pumpkins!

• Tour the composting site located at beautiful Sunnyside Community Garden at 50th Street and Barnett Avenue in Sunnyside.
• Join us and meet your neighbors and fellow composters.
• Learn about composting – a Beginners Workshop will take place at 1:30
• Hands on activities – chopping, sifting, and much much more!
• Bring your pumpkins for smashing!
• Bring your bagged leaves for mulching (aka Project Leaf Drop!)
• Bring food scraps for composting!
• Take a sample of finished compost!

Please stop by! We’ll have refreshments (compostable)!

Can’t wait to see you!!

Sunday in the Garden

Good times in the Garden!

 

Community Composting: Compostory's 8/4 Podcast

Check out Compostory.Org's latest podcast  "The Organic Stream" at about the 5 minute mark. It's an interview with David Buckel from Added Value Red Hook Community Farm about community composting in NYC. He stresses the importance of  "closing the circle" of food production to compost and educating the public about the benefits of composting.

 Compostory's news feed of compost stories

New Batch of Compost

We stopped adding new scraps to our third bin on June 1st and started sifting mid-July. 

We have some great, earthy black gold, as they say. 

 

Here's some of the "un-compost" discovered during the sifting process -

 fruit stickers, plastic ties, plastic caps, rubberbands, glass and so on.  That stuff doesn't break down as fast as the organic matter. 

Smokin' compost pile - 130 degrees F

Compost Pile Lost and Found