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Farm and Compost Volunteer Days

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Join the NYC Compost Project and lend a hand at our sustainable farm or learn how composted food scraps nourish the soil. Learn how to…

Turn & Learn: NYC Compost Project

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 1000 Richmond Terrace , Staten Island, NY, United States

Enjoy the fresh air and beautiful surroundings while working on the NYC Compost Project demonstration site. Learn sustainable landscape management practices and help us make…

Pumpkin Smash 2017

Clement Clark Moore Park 10th Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets, New York, NY, United States

Don’t let your pumpkin haunt a landfill! Bring pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and gourds for a smashing good time. You smash them and the NYC Compost Project…

Putting Your Garden to Bed

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 1000 Richmond Terrace , Staten Island, NY, United States

Use traditional techniques to keep soil protected from the elements, experiment with mulch, and sow cold weather crops for next spring. Registration requested.

Compost Workday

East River Park Compost Yard FDR Drive btwn Jackson St. and Cherry St., New York, NY, United States

Volunteer with one of New York City’s oldest community composting programs! The Lower East Side Ecology Center in partnership with the NYC Compost Project diverts…

Sustainable Lawn Care

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Get a crash course on organic lawn management in this hands-on workshop. Participants will learn appropriate timing, application quantities, and techniques for using compost in…

NYC Outdoors! An Environmental Education Expo

New York University Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

The NYC Outdoors! Expo is a public event showcasing environmental education resources in New York City. Who should attend? Teachers, Educators, Students, Faculty and anyone…

MulchFest

Locations across the city

Bring your holiday tree to a designated city park to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city! Join NYC Parks, the New…

Compost 101

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 1000 Richmond Terrace , Staten Island, NY, United States

What is compost? How do I make it? Do I need a bin? Do I need worms? This workshop will introduce you to compost, how…

Using Your Brown Bin Best

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Have you recently received your curbside Organics Collection kit? Do you have questions about how to separate your waste and keep your bin neat? Come…

Gardening Workshop: Healthy Compost

Greenbelt Nature Center 700 Rockland Avenue at Brielle Avenue, Staten Island, NY, United States

Learn several different methods to create and maintain a compost pile, which can serve as the foundation for healthy garden soil all year long. Please…