2008 Warren-St. Mark's Community Garden Compost Information
Composting is a sustainable, environmental way to reduce your garbage. It’s also a way for you to help transform marginal, reclaimed city land into rich, growing soil that supports natural life.
We encourage all members to compost!
- Place your chopped kitchen scraps in Roland the Rotating composter.
- Use the crank to turn it a few times. Watch that crank, though! It will turn back at you with quite a kick. Stand back!
- Please read through the list of desirable and non-desirable items.
THINGS THAT ARE VERY DESIRABLE TO COMPOST
- banana peels
- coffee grinds
- chopped fruit and vegetable matter without any oils or sauces
- rinsed and crushed egg shells
- plant matter that is free of weed seeds, diseases, or infestations
- leaves
THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT COMPOSTING
- citrus (too much is an acid overdose)
- plants with weed seeds (ask some other gardeners before you add this – certain invasive weeds can be terrible to compost if the seed lives through the process)
- paper (this should be shredded and used as a layer on top of kitchen scraps)
- untreated wood (this should be chopped and used as a layer on top of kitchen scraps)
THINGS YOU CAN’T COMPOST
- bread, pasta, or other grain (in the city, this draws rats)
- anything with oil (that includes olive oil on lettuce)
- any milk, meat, egg products
- diseased or infested plants
- treated wood
