COMPOSTING – HOW WE DO IT AND WHY

We want your food scraps!

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

Fruit and vegetable material only, including coffee grounds, tea leaves.

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

It helps enormously if you:

  • remove any plastic labels

  • chop your scraps into small pieces

  • crush eggshells into very small pieces

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.

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

Cathy Gray