KEEP OUR COMPOST LOCAL!

The Kensington Community-Powered Compost Network is free for everyone to use and available 24/7 for maximum convenience.

There are now 5 public compost stations set up to take food and garden scraps, a number of business who compost food waste and coffee grounds, locally, and a network of shared compost bins across the suburb. The compost we make goes to support local community gardening and food growing.

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  Industrial systems are great for creating massive surpluses, but absolutely terrible at getting things to people who need them.
  That’s where medium scale, distributed local composting comes into its own. Capturing food nutrients at source and preventing them from being lost (or worse fuelling even worse climate collapse), processing it with passive natural energy inputs, and building more resilient, long term sustainable food growing opportunities in the process
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  Organic decay (decomposition) never stops. It is #nature’s way of recycling, and the only genuine form of recycling that runs by default on pure solar energy, breaking down all our leftovers (dead stuff) into the basic elements of plant life, ready to be used over and over again indefinitely to bring new life into existence
  This time of year is nearly as wet as it gets in Kensington, and it is ideal decomposition season for our friends the fungus. Look out for them fruiting and establishing new mycelium at a pile of unprocessed lignins near you!​
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  Compost Turning Day (“The Flip”) again for Ballam Ballam Community Garden at Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre. Every week the dedicated CNLC volunteers turn over 2 cubic metres of compost, processing food scraps brought by local residents and collected from nearby businesses into the starting point for a local food network.
  Rain or shine (and it’s rain today), the compost piles get turned over, mixing the ingredients up, adding oxygen to the mix, and ma​king room for the household scraps that will arrive over the weekend
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  Fresh batch of browns arrived today.
  Creating fast hot #compost cleanly in a built-up urban area requires a constant source of carbon inputs. We use a mix of tree mulch from the @cityOfMebourne urban forest, shredded office paper, and fallen leaves. But the absolute best stuff is fluffy wood shavings from our friends the local furniture makers.
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  Getting the batches flipped team on deck.
  Our compost family keeps growing! ​Every week we turn 1 bay over to stay ahead of new material arriving. New muscle is always welcome
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  Council seems to be rolling out public infrastructure to support crowdsourced communal waste recovery. Cool if there was a way to do that with organics (hint, hint: there is).
  Just the collective funds we all contribute to being used to provide ways for us to work together in living within planetary boundaries, instead of outsourcing our reality to the fossil fuel and mining profiteers who are steering us towards rapid and irreversible planetary collapse.