nyc compost project resources: organizations

Here are groups involved in compost-related activities around New York City:
leaves Bronx Green-Up at The New York Botanical Garden
Brooklyn GreenBridge at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Cornell Cooperative Extension
GreenThumb
Green Guerillas
Just Food
Lower East Side Ecology Center
Open Road of New York
Queens Botanical Garden
6/15 Green Community Garden
Staten Island Botanical Garden

Bronx Green-Up
The New York Botanical Garden
200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10458
phone: (718) 817-8026
web: www.nybg.org/bgu/

Bronx Green-Up, an outreach program of The New York Botanical Garden, is a participant in the NYC Compost Project. The organization provides horticultural advice, technical assistance, and training to residents, community gardeners, school groups, and other organizations interested in improving urban neighborhoods through greening projects.

Brooklyn GreenBridge
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
phone: (718) 623-7290
web: www.bbg.org/edu/greenbridge/

Brooklyn GreenBridge, the community horticulture program of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is a participant in the NYC Compost Project. Working with block associations, community gardens, community centers, and other groups, Brooklyn GreenBridge promotes conservation and community through gardening activities.

Cornell Cooperative Extension
16 East 34th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016-4328
phone: (212) 340-2900
web: www.cce.cornell.edu/nyc

The Cornell Cooperative Extension system enables people to improve their lives and communities through partnerships that put experience and research knowledge to work. For background information on their composting and school composting programs, see the Cornell University website.

GreenThumb
Director of Field Operations
49 Chambers Street, Room 1020
New York, NY 10007
phone: (212) 788-8070
web: www.greenthumbnyc.org

Established in 1978, GreenThumb is committed to providing support to help strengthen gardens, strengthen gardener skills, and strengthen communities. GreenThumb's services take the form of materials, grants, and technical assistance, including educational workshops.

Green Guerillas
214 West 29 Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
phone: (212) 402-1121
web: www.greenguerillas.org

Since 1973, Green Guerillas staff and volunteers have helped thousands of people realize of people realize their dreams of turning vacant, rubble-strewn lots into vibrant community gardens. In the coming year they will help hundreds of grassroots groups strengthen underserved neighborhoods through community gardening. With their help, people will grow food, plant flowers, educate youth, paint colorful murals, and work to preserve their gardens as vital community centers for future generations.

Just Food
307 7th Avenue, suite 1201
New York, NY 10001
phone: (212) 645-9880
web: www.justfood.org

Just Food works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. They do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA ) partners city groups with regional farmers to provide high quality, locally-grown, affordable produce and meats. Their City Farms project encourages NYC community gardeners to grow, distribute, and market more food within their communities.

Lower East Side Ecology Center
East 7th Street between Avenues B & C
P.O. Box 20488
New York, NY 10009
phone: 212-477-4022
email: oreinc@earthlink.net
web: www.lesecologycenter.org

LESEC is a participant in the NYC Compost Project and runs a Compost Education Center and Collection Program. LESEC accepts organic material for composting (fruit and vegetable peelings, coffee grounds and tea bags, egg and nut shells, cut flowers, and similar organic material). LESEC has drop-off bins for organics at the Union Square Green Market (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm), and also sells red wiggler worms, potting soil, worm castings, and worm condos there.

Open Road of New York
346 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10003
phone: (212) 260-1896
web: www.openroadny.org

Open Road of New York was founded in 1990 to work with children, teenagers, and adults on outdoor environmental projects. They work long term with individual young people, public schools, nonprofit and small business partners, and community volunteers to design, develop, and manage public gardens, playgrounds, parks, and compost systems.

Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355
phone: (718) 886-3800
compost helpline: (718) 539-5296
email: compost@queensbotanical.org
web: www.queensbotanical.org

QBG is a participant in the NYC Compost Project. More then 60 years after its birth as an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Queens Botanical Garden continues to offer public and educational programs in its rose, bee, herb, and perennial gardens. Workshops include vermiculture for grades 3 and up, and ethnobotany forums for adults.

6/15 Green Community Garden
6th Avenue & 15th Street
Park Slope Brooklyn
c/o Maureen O’Brien
volunteer compost coordinator
478 12th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
phone: (718) 768-0679
email: maureen@modino.com

6/15 Green is a public compost site where the general public is invited and encouraged to add compostables during open hours from April through October: Saturdays 10 am to 2 pm, Sundays 4 pm to 8 pm, and Thursdays 6 pm to 8 pm, or whenever the gate is open. Call for compost membership info, if you have compost or worm bin questions, or if you would like to have a compost demonstration for your backyard, building, or block party. A composting brochure (in English and Spanish) is available at the garden on the bulletin board. For worm (eisena fetida) sales contact Maureen O’Brien at the above address.

Staten Island Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
phone: (718) 273-8200
web: www.sibg.org

SIBG is a participant in the NYC Compost Project. Located in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Staten Island Botanical Garden has created a number of gardens that include representations from particular periods along with contemporary styles. In presenting them to the public, these gardens are enjoyed for their own qualities, used as educational tools, or as backdrops to events.

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