Wednesday, October 7, 2020

COMPOST ACCEPTED AT COMMUNITY GARDEN

 
The East 4th Street Community Garden has partnered with Big Reuse, which will be picking up the garden's food scraps and processing them into compost at Big Reuse's Salt Lot site in Gowanus.
 
The public is welcome to drop off food scraps in the green toters in the garden's compost area on Wednesdays from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to noon until November 21st.
 
From the garden's Tumblr page:
 
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Composting
East 4th Street Community Garden 2020 Compost Rules 

Thank you for composting at the East 4th Street Community Garden and following our rules and best practices.

Drop off during open hours (through November 21)

  • Wednesday 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  • Saturday 10:00 am – noon
No more than 18 people are allowed in the garden at one time, so you may have to wait to enter.

BRING

  • Fruit and vegetable scraps
  • Coffee grounds and tea bags
  • Egg shells
  • Food-soiled paper towels or napkins
  • Bread and grains (nothing with oil!)
  • Shredded newspaper or brown paper

 DO NOT BRING

  • Meat or fish scraps
  • Anything with fats, grease or oil
  • Cheese or dairy products
  • Pesticide-treated plants, grass clippings, pest-infested plants
  • Twisty ties, rubber bands, fruit stickers
  • Bioplastics (compostable bags, compostable cutlery, compostable cups)
  • Paper take out containers or produce trays
  • Non-compostable materials such as plastic, metals or glass 

BEST PRACTICES

  • Remove any fruit and vegetable plastic labels, twisty ties or rubber bands.
  • Make sure your food scraps are chopped into 2-3” chunks. 
  • Please deposit your food scraps in the green toters.
  • Throw away any plastic bags, including compostable biobags, at the front gate trash area. Or better yet, bring your food scraps in a reusable container.

COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS

Wear masks and gloves when handling compost bins>.

  • Allow 6 feet of space between you and another person in the compost area.
  • If we get overwhelmed, we can suspend collection with no advance notice to ensure sanitary conditions in our garden. 

PLEASE NOTE

  • This is a volunteer run site with limited space. We do not have the capacity to fill the void of the suspended City run organics programs. 
  • Our compost committee is actively working to create sustainable compost capacity to serve our neighborhood.  

Please follow us on Facebook @East Fourth Street Community Garden. If you drop off food scraps on a regular basis, we would appreciate your help processing compost when we will welcome volunteers once again.

Contact elizabeth_royzman@yahoo.com with any questions.
 
Location
East 4th Street Community Garden
171 E. 4th Street
between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue
 
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