Composting on the Ground
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DIY Community Composter Screener
Brenda Platt
March 26, 2024
Do It Yourself Trommel is a step-by-step guide by Bruno Navarro of Nexus Bau to building an electric trommel compost screener intended for use at community gardens, schools, urban farms, and other community venues. ILSR supported Bruno in documenting his design in this guide.READ MORE
Philadelphia Community Compost Network Public Meeting
Virginia Streeter
October 30, 2019
On Thursday, November 14th, ILSR, Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation, the PA Horticultural Society and Penn State Extension launch the City's new Community Compost Network.READ MORE
Time-Lapse Video of Baltimore Bin Build
Virginia Streeter
October 31, 2018
In 2017, ILSR launched the Baltimore Compost Collective, a food scrap collection and composting service that is employing local youth in Curtis Bay. Read more about the project here. This year we helped organize a community bin-build of a second composting system in order to expand the site's capacity to compost food scraps. Check out our 1.5 minute time-lapse video of the bin-build!READ MORE
Fighting Food Waste and Employing Youth in Baltimore
August 9, 2018
The Compost Collective is an entrepreneurship program where youth are trained in workforce skills, food access programming and community-scale composting. They are receiving guided, hands-on experience managing a small-scale composting operation and its expansion, and using the compost they create to grow fresh produce for the community at Filbert Street Garden.READ MORE
ILSR Launches Composting Demonstration Site in Maryland High School
Brenda Platt
March 6, 2018
In the wake of ILSR-assisted bills passed in Maryland to enable community composting, Montgomery Blair High School is hosting an ILSR-sponsored demonstration site on their campus to show how community composting can work at a small-scale.READ MORE
ILSR Raises Up Urban Farms with Community Compost in Baltimore and D.C.
June 30, 2017
In 2014, ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative launched the Neighborhood Soil Rebuilders (NSR) composter training program to teach community leaders how to compost on a small-scale for local food production and to adapt the rigor of commercial composting industry practices to the small scale.READ MORE