ITS SUMMER!!!

Hello all,

Last week our carbon:nitrogen rations were a little off resulting in the pile cooling in little, but after adding a decent amount of shredded newspaper and more aerating, the pile heated up again very quickly.  These two temperatures were taken less than that 24 hours apart! The microbes are definitely very active!

Weekly Update: A New Record!

🌱 Weekly Composting Update – 111.6 Pounds Collected & Compost Returned! 🌱

🔥 We’re on Fire! (In the Best Way Possible)

This week we proudly diverted 143 lbs of kitchen scraps from the landfill — the equivalent of about 300 apples. 🍎♻️ Huge thanks to the Chass household for providing mountains of shredded carbon-rich material, this was much needed this week to keep the carbon:nitrogen ratio just right for perfect cooking.  A shout out to the Towle household as well for a record weight of scraps dropped off!

This week, our neighborhood compost heroes crushed it — a whopping 153.5 pounds of kitchen scraps saved from a landfill fate! 🍌🥬🥕

It is time for GCP to give back!  For the last few weeks we have been preparing compost to give to our households.  There are a few steps involved which is why the bags were not ready sooner!  The steps are as follows:

Welcome back to our blog! Today was a fantastic day composting with the help of our new tool. One of our households donated a new turner which has made our composting process, specifically aerating, incredibly more effective so thank you! Today, we collected 162.0 pounds of kitchen scraps and our composting pile reached a record temperature of 150 degrees. This means we need to be turning more which will be greatly aided by that turner! Additionally, we welcomed 4 new households this week to the group which is terrific! Thank you to the Greenwich Democrats for writing their article which brought us these interested households!

A great week!  On Tuesday Greenwich Composting Project celebrated Earth Day by going back to where the team originally met: Parkway Elementary School.  GCP had the kind invitation to present to Parkway on the topic of composting.  Maggie and Kian Madden, members of GCP and students at Parkway, helped lead the assembly - great job Maggie and Kian, you made it so much more interesting and fun!  The Parkway students already knew a lot about composting (many are already composting with GCP) and were a great audience, asking some excellent, and sometimes very challenging, questions.  Thank you so much Parkway for having us!

🌍💚 Happy Earth Day from the Greenwich Composting Project!Today we celebrate the tiny heroes—worms, microbes, and YOU—who turn scraps into soil and help our planet thrive! 🌱🍌🪱💩Let’s keep feeding the Earth, one banana peel at a time.