Compost of the Dolls

 Today a new volunteer found this doll arm while we were sifting.  It turned out to be a good tool for scooping up worms and putting them back in the compost bin.

How did it end up in the compost?
The most plausible theory is that it was in a bag of leaves we received months ago. We use the leaves for our 'browns' or carbons. We receive many of our leaves from a nearby park and often find a wide range of items. So it's possible the doll arm was separated from the doll somehow and ended up in a bag of leaves. But who knows? What's clear is this doll arm is not going to break down or decompose for a very long time. It's already been in our compost bin for approximately three months and looks to be in perfect shape (for a doll arm.)

Help us identify these other items we came across today while sifting.

SunnyCompost 2018 Expansion

 Before and after photos

  

Summertime is for Composting! Volunteers Needed!

Greetings Community,

I hope you are all keeping cool in this hot and humid weather. I wanted to reach out and thank all that have been dropping off their food scraps.  
It is so wonderful to know that people are diverting their food scraps from the land-fill and helping to create something nutrient rich for our earth. 
As many of you know this compost site is completely volunteer run.  The summer months become a bit of a challenge because many people go on vacation. I am reaching out to ask for your help. 
 We need more volunteers. If we don't get volunteers we can't continue to run the site. All we ask is for a bit of your time. The more hands we have the easier the load. So come on out. I will be there this Sunday, July 23rd at 2:00 if anyone would like me to show you how things get done.Hope to see you soon.All the bestMaddy

Also here is a little reminder of what to compost. 

Please remember:

• NO plastics or non-biodegradable materials
• REMOVE stickers from fruit and vegetable peels
• take your containers back with you.

Accepted materials include:

•  fruit and vegetable scraps,    
•  non-greasy food scraps (rice, pasta, bread, cereal etc.),
•  coffee grounds & filters, tea bags,
•  egg and nut shells, pits,
•  cut or dried flowers, houseplants and potting soil.

 We do NOT accept meat, chicken, fish, greasy food scraps, fat, oil, dairy, animal waste, litter or bedding, coal or charcoal, coconuts, diseased and/or insect-infested houseplants/soil or biodegradable/compostable plastics.

Perfect day at Sunny Compost

Snow Doesn't Stop Sunny Compost

How do you Store & Transport your Food Scraps? Let us count the ways!

Another year of composting at Sunny Compost!

Wow, 2015 flew by! With our weather feeling more like springtime, it's even harder to believe we have reached the end of the calendar year.

Sunny Compost has provided our community with a local food scraps drop-off site for over three years, continuing the hard work started by Peter Richter before us.

This year's accomplishments:

• Built a nifty sifter! (Thanks William and Alvin!)
• Held our 4th annual Open House/Smashing Pumpkin event
• Hosted participants of the Queens Compost Bike Tour in June
• Held a Compost Workshop for PS 11 students (Thanks Maddie!)
• Participated in Open Bin NYC in May as part of International Compost Awareness Week
• Started a Twitter account - Follow us @SunnyCompost\
• Started our Snacks & Sifting Sundays on the last Sunday of each month
• Produced more compost than ever and used it in the community space on Barnett Avenue

We are grateful to all who help us - Sunnyside Community Garden members, Sunnyside Gardens Park, NYC Compost Project, Big Reuse, NYC Department of Sanitation, Woodside Neighborhood Association, PS 11, and all of our dedicated volunteers.

Reminders:

• Sunny Compost is open year round. Our drop-off hours are on Sundays from 2:00 - 4:00 from November through February and then 2:00 - 5:00
• If the weather is rough or if we don't have any volunteers, you may place your food scraps in the black bin outside the gate.  As always, please take your plastic bags or other non-compostables with you.
• Big Reuse food scraps drop off at the Skillman Avenue Greenmarket is  open year round! Sunnyside Greenmarket  Saturdays, 8 am-2 pm YEAR ROUND
  Skillman Ave between 42 and 43 Street (http://www.bigreuse.org/compost/drop-sites
• We have finished compost if you need any. Makes for a unique gift! 
• We welcome new volunteers. Our sign-up sheet is online.  

Thank you for being a part of our community's compost program!