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Your weekly update on our adventures in composting! Today marks the conclusion of another great weekend working in the garden…and, another successful Sunday’s in St. Roch (as we’ve been dubbed among the composting community)! Today I was working in the garden for most of the weekly drop off hours and got to see a newContinue reading “THE Com POST”

We are seeking volunteers for our Love the Boot beautification day at the garden! We have t-shirts for the first 25 volunteers and will be providing refreshments and snacks. We plan to do beautification projects around the garden and a clean up of the surrounding block. The more volunteers we have, the more of aContinue reading “Volunteers Wanted!”

Weekly update: What a beautiful day in the garden! We spent the morning completely repositioning our compost bins. Three times a charm, right? This will be the last time we move our system but changes needed to be made to adjust to the scale of our operation. I’ll explain… Over the course of the weekContinue reading “THE Com POST”

Curious about how we make our beds? For our non Hugel Kultur beds we are still filling them using permaculture techniques. In case you were wondering, we thought we’d share how easy it is to make a raised garden bed for very little money. We start with a weed barrier, in our beds we useContinue reading “Building Garden Beds With Natural And Recyclable Materials”

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Love the Boot Week is April 18-24! I Dig It is officially registered with Keep Louisiana Beautiful to Love the Boot! Love the Boot Week is dedicated to cleanup and beautification events in all 64 parishes across our great state. Our event will be open for the general public to volunteer April 24th from 11:00am-noonContinue reading “Love the Boot at Galvez Garden!”

Update on our ongoing collaboration with Compost NOW and our weekly drop off site: We were curious if last week’s volume of food waste was as an anomaly due to Mardi Gras related closures at other sites around town, and; I’m happy to report, I believe we’ve got regulars! This Sunday yielded another two binsContinue reading “The Com POST”

Update: Today is the last Sunday before Mardi Gras and it’s hard to believe it, but despite it being the middle of carnival, neighbors came out and dropped off food waste! This is our second official week as a Compost NOW drop off site so we didn’t know what to expect. Also, at the timeContinue reading “THE Com POST”

As today marked our first day as an official compost drop off site through Compost NOW,we’re commemorating it with a new weekly update. May I present, “THE Com POST”. Today we are happy to report that despite the Mardi Gras parades going on throughout the city, we filled one compost bin with food scraps forContinue reading “THE Com POST”