Category: Compost

Leave your leaves at the garden

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Prospect Heights Community Farm will be collecting leaves to be composted and used in the garden. We will be collecting bagged leaves on most Sundays over the next month. Please bring leaves only, no trash or other material.

Once again the Department of Sanitation will not be collecting leaves for composting in Community Board 8 – Prospect Heights and Crown Heights.

To avoid risking your leaves ending up in the landfill, bring them to the garden at one of the following times and we’ll make sure they are put to good use as compost.

Sunday the 12th of November at 12-2pm
Sunday the 19th of November at 12-2pm
Sunday the 3th of December at 12-2pm
Sunday the 10th of December at 12-2pm

Mulch your Christmas tree at Mulch Fest this weekend!

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Once again, Prospect Heights Community will be serving as a drop off location for MuchFest. Bringing your Christmas tree to the garden will guarantee its continued use in the form of mulch which will be used in the garden and around the neighbourhood. Don’t let your tree end up in the trash!

TreeCycle/Mulch Fest 2017 is part of an annual, city wide program organised by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. For more info on the program, go to the MulchFest site.

Prospect Heights Community Farm will be one of the many places to drop off your Christmas tree throughout the city. We’ll be collecting trees and chipping them into mulch on Saturday and Sunday the 7th and 8th of January from 10 am to 2 pm. That gives you just enough time from twelfth night on the 5th of January to lug your tree over to the garden.

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Give us your leaves!

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It’s that time of year again and we’ll be collecting leaves to be composted and used in the garden.

Despite sending out mailers, the Department of Sanitation will not be collecting leaves for composting in Community Board 8 – Prospect Heights and Crown Heights. Please note that, per the DSNY’s 2016 Fall Leaf Collection page, if you leave leaves out on the curb they will be collected with the garbage and end up in the landfill.

Instead, bring them to the garden at one of the following times and we’ll make sure they are put to good use as compost.

Saturday the 6th of November 12-2pm
Sunday the 13th of November 12-2pm
Sunday the 20th of November 12-2pm
Sunday the 4th of December 12-2pm

Please make sure your leaves are bagged in clear or paper bags and that you only bring leaves. Please no twigs, branches or trash.

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Annual Pumpkin Smash Potato Bake Bash

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Next Saturday will be our annual fall celebration; the Pumpkin Smash Potato Bake bash. Bring your left over jack o’ lanterns to smash in our compost. We’ll also have baked potatoes, hot cider and other snacks and will be hanging out in the garden all afternoon. This year we’ll have a smoker and grill and we’ll be smoking chicken and grilling vegetarian snacks.

We hope to see you in the garden on Saturday the 5th of November from 12-4pm at Prospect Heights Community Farm, 252-256 Saint Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. The rain date is the same time on Sunday the 6th of November.

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Compost your Christmas tree at MulchFest 2016

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Once again, Prospect Heights Community will be serving as a drop off location for MuchFest. Bringing your Christmas tree to the garden will guarantee its continued use in the form of mulch which will be used in the garden and around the neighbourhood. Don’t let your tree end up in the trash!

TreeCycle/Mulch Fest 2016 is part of an annual, city wide program organised by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. For more info on the program, go to the MulchFest site.

Prospect Heights Community Farm will be one of the many places to drop off your Christmas tree throughout the city. We’ll be collecting trees and chipping them into mulch on Saturday and Sunday the 9th and 10th of January from 10 am to 2 pm. That gives you a few days from twelfth night on the 5th of January to lug your tree over to the garden.

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Leaf drop is underway

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Our annual leaf collection drive is under way. Please bring your bagged leaves to the garden on any of the below dates. This not only diverts your compostable material away from the landfill and into a garden but also helps us keep the correct greens to browns balance in out compost system.

Please bring your leaves in clear plastic or brown paper bags. Make sure you only bring leaves; no twigs, branches, or trash please.

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Mulch your Christmas tree at the garden

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Bringing your Christmas tree to the garden will guarantee it’s continued use in the form of mulch which will be used in the garden and around the neighbourhood. Don’t let your tree end up in the trash!

TreeCycle/Mulch Fest 2014 is part of an annual, city wide program organised by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. For more info on the program, go to the MulchFest site.

Prospect Heights Community Farm will be one of the many places to drop of your Christmas tree throughout the city. We’ll be collecting trees and chipping them into mulch on Saturday and Sunday the 11th and 12th of January from 10 am to 2 pm. That gives you a few days from twelfth night on the 6th of January to lug your tree over to the garden.

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Mulchfest 2012 at Prospect Heights Community Farm

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Mulchfest had its strongest year yet thanks to the heavy stream of volunteers wrangling up trees!!! Mix that with a steady stream of community participation and it rounds out to a PHCFarm all time record somewhere in the area of around 700 trees collected and turned into mulch!!!

Thanks to everyone that helped!




Fall Leaf Collection

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Leaves collected curbside are treated as regular household trash. Don’t waste this precious resource! Keep leaves out of our landfills and help create beautiful compost!

The garden will be accepting bagged, residential leaves* for composting on the following dates:

November 12th
November 20th
December 4th

Find out about other locations that are collecting leaves at nycleaves.org.

* Please no twigs, branches, or trash! Please use clear plastic or brown paper bags.

The Amazing Compost Sifter

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The following are some more long-awaited pictures of the PHCF Compost Sifter in action. Someday we’ll figure out how to create a very dynamic and Flash-y way of displaying these sorts of things on the website. ‘Till then, you’ll have to pardon the somewhat awkward layout in which I’ve presented them here.

The sifter’s construction is fairly simple. Bicycle wheels, stripped of tires, spokes, and gears, make up the the two hoops on each end. Wire mesh – chicken wire will do the trick, in a pinch – makes up the body. The whole thing rolls on a wood frame with four small castors screwed into the sides. The grooves of the wheels fit perfectly along the castors, and they spin the sifter with the least effort. Jon and James can say more about the details of the sifter’s construction. More to come soon…

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