COMPOSTING AT THE KINGS CROSS COMMUNITY GARDEN
We’ve been making compost at the Kings Cross Community Garden from the beginning:
providing nourishment for the garden
helping the community put food scraps to good use
reducing the volume of waste that the council needs to dispose of to landfill.
How we do it and why
In 2023, we decided it was time to review our composting processes, prompted by a range of issues including:
our capacity to handle the increasing volume of scraps being collected, as community awareness of the garden grows
a rise in the rat population at the time, in the garden as well as in the local area generally
the potential to revisit current management methods and investigate new and perhaps more effective approaches.
A Compost Working Group was formed, and members from various parts of the garden came together to discuss ideas, gather information and share knowledge.
The result was a report that summarises our current composting processes, highlights issues that have emerged and provides a foundation for adding more information as it becomes available.