Food Gardens, Compost Stories
Beth
Share your story about City Compost!
If city compost enabled you to grow food for your community, we want
to know. Volunteers from East New York Farms, the Brooklyn Food
Coalition, and the Lower East Side Ecology Center are teaming up get
stories from people like you in the public record, so we can stand
together to demonstrate the importance of compost for food justice in
NYC.
As you may already know, City Council does not require leaf composting
and compost givebacks by law.
The compost cuts in 2008-2009 were a blow to many gardeners throughout
the city who needed this soil amendment to grow food for their
communities.
Sharing your reaction and experience of using city compost in your
neighborhood will build support for these programs by encouraging
others to speak out. Our combined efforts will enable a leaf compost
law to gain ground in City Council!
We'd like to know...
- what kinds of food has city compost helped you to grow, and how was
the food distributed?
- how has growing local food changed your community?
- about how much city compost had you used in your garden?
- what are the challenges and costs in making/acquiring that much
compost on your own?
Gardeners, please send your story to com...@eastnewyorkfarms.org and/
or to brooklynf...@gmail.com
Please feel free to pass along my contact information with more info
on the leaf compost law to other gardeners who serve communities in
your network.
Many thanks, and hope this finds you well,
Beth Manes
Compost Intern
East New York Farms!