Clinton Community Garden www.clintoncommunitygarden.org

West 48th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues New York, New York

The Clinton Community Garden has been a “green sanctuary” for the community members of Hell’s Kitchen since 1978. It is organized into 2 sections, a public front garden with lawn and flower beds, which is maintained by volunteers from the community, and a rear garden for individual flower and vegetable plots. The site in includes organic composting services, as well as a sun and shade rock garden, grape arbors, Italian honeybee hives, organic composting services, winding brick paths, an edible plant garden, and the North American native plants bed.

No public drop off for compost, but this should have been on the Compost Map.

NYC Freegan Trash Tours www.freegan.info

While not directly related to composting, freeganism is another great alternative that prevents usable resources and quality consumables from being turned into waste, thus encouraging ecological sustainability. Check out the link above for weekly salvaging tours, freegan feasts and bike workshops that show participants how to turn found bike parts into working bicycles.

Grub Community Building Meal www.toyshopcollective.com

Grub is a mostly freegan dinner "for strangers and co-conspirators in a relaxed environment." There is no charge, but donations are requested. Organized by In Our Hearts and Toy Shop collectives.

Held the 1st & 3rd Sunday of every month at Rubulad, 338 Flushing Ave. (between Classon & Taaffe near the Navy Yard) in Brooklyn. Doors at 6.30, dinner at 7.00.

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy www.bpcparks.org

Battery Park City Conservancy is a non-profit organization that maintains the public park that is on Battery Park City grounds. All the yard waste that comes out of the park is composted. Food waste from grocery stores and coffee grounds are also composted. The thermal composting approach makes up 3/4th of the composting process, 25 percent of which is vermacomposting. 2 different approaches are utilized: one that encourages fungal populations and the second encourages bacterial growth.

The Battery Park City Park is maintained organically, with the minimization of the addition of outside nitrogen to the soil. Planting beds/trees are not fertilized, however because of a lack of space (only 2000sq ft used for composting), the widely used turf beds are supplemented with nitrogen. The system is very developed, is geared towards encouraging the development of certain soil microorganisms, it is in the process of being moved indoors after 17 years of use.

More updates coming soon!

Composting is great here too!

Clinton Community Garden Grape Arbor.