[Community_garden] Incredible Composting Success

[yarrow at sfo.com]

At 3:22 PM -0500 12/10/07, Sharon Gordon wrote:
....>Over the course of the year, the community gardens had workshops on
>composting, and the wonderful lady that is head of the county's recycling
>gave the gardens recycle carts for the garden and individual compost bins
>for the plots.
>
>In November that garden had a huge Fall Clean Up Day.  Everyone who helped
>got first dibs on the weeds for their own compost bins.  Any things that
>were damaged but recyclable such as falling apart milk jugs that had been
>used for plant covers went into the recycle carts.  Things that people no
>longer wanted went to other gardeners who could use them.
>
>At the end there was less than a sandwich baggie of trash for the landfill.

WOW!! That is so impressive. How many gardeners? We still 
(individually) have to pay for compost bins, and even among those who 
have bins, very few use them to make compost. We also (the community 
garden program) have to pay for the city to deliver a dumpster for 
compostables and the weekly bins for compost pickup. But a lot of 
garden supplies get reused, we do have an area to put reusable 
fencing, cages, containers, etc.