COMPOSTING – HOW WE DO IT AND WHY

We want your food scraps!

WE LOVE…
Fruit and vegetable material, including coffee grounds, tea leaves.

BUT PLEASE…
x No meat, rice, bread, flour etc
x No garden waste, tissues, paper or cardboard
x No plastic bags, including ‘compostable’ types

AND REMEMBER TO REMOVE THOSE PESKY STICKY LABELS – THEY NEVER BREAK DOWN!

You can deposit your scraps into the public bins near the gate in the centre section of the garden.

It helps us enormously if you:

> chop your scraps into small pieces
> crush any eggshells

How we use your scraps to make compost

We’ve been creating 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.

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.

DOWNLOAD THE COMPOST REPORT

Please get in touch if you have any feedback or questions – about the report, our processes, or composting in general.

Cathy Gray