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Such great news, y’all! This week marks one year of operation as a community compost collection site! We have had two cycles of compost from start to finish used in our garden. Our bin that is curing is probably 2 weeks away from being finished and we have active participation in the program. We’re thrilled!Continue reading “THE Com POST”

Your weekly update on all things compost related! Happy Sunday, y’all! This is the last Sunday before Mardi Gras, and would you believe it, we’re open for your food scraps! In addition, as promised I can finally share more details about the Cultivating the Community Garden Grant! The NOLA Artist Incubator has been awarded fundingContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Your weekly update on all things compost related! Happy St. Roch Sunday, y’all! As you can tell from the photo above, we had a light collection of scraps today. I only put out two bins this morning, expecting less visitors as Mardi Gras is in full swing and it’s the Super Bowl Sunday. For thisContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Your weekly update on all things compost related! This week we collected one full bin of frozen food scraps at the Galvez garden. For whatever reason people decided to disperse among the three different bins, as featured below. For clarity, collectively it all added up to one bin. Here’s what it all looked like whenContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Your weekly update on all things compost related! This week we collected one bin of scraps from our community. Last night was Chewbaccus (Mardi Gras is in full swing here in NOLA) so, maybe everyone had a little bit too much fun to make it out today… it’s impossible to tell with these things! IContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Yancey and Dig In Yancey While in Asheville I realized I was really close to a great farming community that I follow on Instagram. We’ll I reached out to them online, and I’m glad I did. I wanted to visit their farm and they informed me that it was going to be closed that dayContinue reading “Exploring gardens and farms in different parts of North Carolina driving back to New Orleans”

Your weekly update on all things compost related! Special Edition: The Jesse Feature Welcome to THE Com POST, a weekly newsletter dedicated exclusively to documenting our adventures in composting and community gardening in New Orleans! Why do I do this, you ask? Well, we’re doing a lot, and honestly; I felt like if I didn’tContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Your update on all things compost related! This week we collected one full bin of food scraps at the Galvez Garden for our composting efforts. We added leaves from the ground and shredded cardboard as our browns. Here’s the addition of this week’s collection before and after adding browns. Things are going smoothly on theContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Your weekly addition on all things compost related! This week we had a bountiful harvest of food scraps at our collection at Galvez Garden,in between Mandeville and Galvez Street, in St. Roch. We collected two overfilled bins (with an extra bag of oranges) to be organically composted at our garden. Dylan immediately found the bagContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Your weekly update on all things compost related! Firstly, Happy New Year! I’m proud to report that we were open on the first day of the new year! Good thing too, because we made the decision to close on Christmas, we had a lot of people dropping off two weeks of compost today. Lynne fromContinue reading “THE Com POST”