Join us for a community drop-off compost raising! We will be constructing a community compost drop-off site at Coffee Carts and celebrate with a community potluck! Bring a dish to share and your own non-disposable place setting. This is a zero-waste event.
On March 16 and 17, Rice Street Community Garden had a record turnout of volunteers for the first two workdays of the 2018 growing season. The big Source: Dirt Connects Rice Street Garden, Conservers - The Transylvania Times
Looking for a place to take your food scraps? Our local gardens and farms can use them to create soil and grow food and flowers. Here is one location we have identified that will accept your soil-to-be. Moving to Conservers potluck at Just Ripe Farm so that they could learn about the new community compost drop-off site. Just Ripe Farms Where: 1200 Old Hendersonville Hwy, Brevard, NC 28712 (across from Oskar Blues) Website: http://www.justripefarm.com/ Details: The garden has a compost collection site and they accept food from the public. The compost collection site is just past the green house on the main entrance to the farm. The station is not staffed. You can drop off at any time. Happy Notes: They created this drop-off location in support of the community compost initiative to keep food out of the landfill. Thank you!
Looking for a place to take your organics? Our local gardens and farms can use them to grow food. Here is one location we have identified that will accept your soil-to-be. Rice Street Community Garden Where: 317 E Main St, Brevard, North Carolina 28712 (Beside the Farmers Market) Website: https://www.facebook.com/ricestreetcommunitygarden/ Details: The garden has a compost drum and they accept organics from the public. They do not accept meat, bones, corn cobs, sticks or paper. The garden donates it produce to local food banks. The station is not staffed. You can drop off at any time. Happy Notes: They welcome our compost! Is there more information you would like in a directory listing? Let us know! Email us at [email protected] and share your thoughts.
Join us March 15 at 6 pm at King Street 185 for a viewing of SEED. Bring a potluck dish and your own non-disposable place setting and join us. The potluck starts at 6 pm. The movie starts at 6:30 pm.
Thursday, February 22nd at 7 pm the Pisgah Group of the Sierra Club hosted Moving to Conservers, who delivered a panel presentation on composting. Elizabeth Pell of the group organized a panel that consisted of herself as moderator, Maureen Copelof of Brevard's city council, Kenn Webb of Transylvania County Solid Waste Authority, Ron Wingard a county resident, Bart Renner of the county extension office and Zoe Muhalis is a 15-year-old high school student. The meeting was well attended and a lot of questions were asked. I spoke to one couple after the presentation and they have decided to build their own compost bin. Fantastic! I think the most powerful part of the presentation for myself was hearing what Ron had to say. He and his wife had started to compost on January 1st of 2018. He said, as a result, he expects instead of taking over 20 bags of trash to the dump this year he will take 6 or less! Wow! That is a lot of waste [...]
Moving to Conservers is a local group that explores ways to implement changes we want to see in our community. Currently, we are working on implementing a community compost program with a goal of removing organics from the landfill so we can put them to work creating soil for local gardening projects. We kicked off the project February 1st and are moving full speed ahead. It was agreed we would organize using community advocates who will reach out to their neighbors and design solutions. In order to organize that, we need to develop a toolkit to be used by these neighbors. So we are. We have asked people to answer this question: What do you want in hand when you knock on your neighbor's door or host a house party? Members have started responded. As we collect the information, I will add it here. We have asked for all input by February 8th. Please feel free to share your thoughts. Once we have our initial list, we will [...]
On February 1st, individuals came to King Street 185 for a discussion on starting curbside composting in Brevard. There was a wealth of knowledge and ideas shared in addition to a potluck. And the food......always outstanding. Thank you, King Street 185 for hosting the event. We enjoyed our meals while watching this video from the show Growing A Greener World: The Compost Pedallers. It is a great show and worth the 25 minutes to watch in my humble opinion. Two next steps were agreed on: Collect information on all the compost sites already in existence. Designate those that are willing to accept compost drop-off from citizens Organize using community advocates who will reach out to their neighbors and design solutions to collect organics so they can be used to create soil. It is exciting to see so many people come together towards making our community even more amazing.
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"Every dollar is a vote." a financial advisor for environmental funds recently said at a local Sierra Club meeting presentation. Agreed and keeping money local and using our votes to support what we want to have here and stay here is priceless. A lot of times the things I treasure here cannot get traditional financing for a few reasons. There are numerous ways to invest locally. Recently, our group pulled together and to date we have purchased $1000 worth of shares from a local farm to give them upfront capital for the upcoming growing season. We are buying a portion of the upcoming year's harvest. Support for local ventures can use your upfront support and pay back in a variety of ways, depending upon the laws of your state. For a great example of these options in action, check out this investment site Investibule: https://investibule.co/