Thanks to all who came for coffee, bagels, talk, and work💚
11/16/23
11/11/23
Garden clean up Nov 12 @10am
Hi all! Now it's time to put away the furniture and prepare our backyard space for the winter season. On Sunday, November 12th, the committee will be leading a garden clean up event, and we're asking for your help! The clean up will involve putting furniture back into storage, taking down the sails and cleaning up dried leaves.
Some of the things to do:
1 - put wooden chairs and other delicate furniture away - probably in the meters room. To confirm with Board
2 - uproot Aster from bed 5
3 - collect garden waste in clear plastic bags
4 - remove sun sails...
We'll have coffee and bagels
Thank you
10/30/23
Join the November 12 Garden Clean-Up
Meet the usual suspects in the backyard to prepare it for the cold season.
November 12 10:00am - 1:00pm
This is what we need to do:
Hi all! Now it's time to put away the furniture and prepare our backyard space for the winter season.
On Sunday, November 12th, the committee will be leading a garden clean up event, and we're asking for your help! The clean up will involve putting furniture back into storage, taking down the sails and cleaning up dried leaves.
Some of the things to do:
1 - put wooden chairs and other delicate furniture away - probably in the meters room. To confirm with Board
2 - uproot Aster from bed 5
3 - collect garden waste in clear plastic bags
4 - remove sun sails...
We'll have coffee and bagels
Thank you and see you there! 👽
9/16/23
Curbside Composting
Curbside Composting is coming to all of Brooklyn in October 2023
Service begins the week of October 2, 2023 and compost will collected on the same day as your recycling.
We collect ALL food scraps and food-soiled paper including meat, bones, dairy, and greasy uncoated paper.
Spread the word!
- Follow @nycsanitation social media and share our posts on Curbside Composting.
- Request or download educational materials and signage including additional languages.
- Request an outreach event.
Leaf and yard waste separation is mandatory!
Leaves, grass, garden trimmings, plants and flowers must be separated from your trash.
- Place in any labeled bin (55 gallons or less) with a secure lid, DSNY brown bin, paper lawn and leaf bag, or clear plastic bag.
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Bundle twigs and branches with twine and place on curb next to bins or bags.
NOTE:
Currently our black composting bin is still open.
Please chop hard bits of fresh kitchen scraps (corn cobs, water melon rind, broccoli stems etc and add paper to your collection). Thank you
7/29/23
7/24/23
Compostable trash bags not suitable for compost bin
Hi everybody,
It's great to have people ready to compost their kitchen scraps, instead of throwing it to landfill!
A very important note: the COMPOSTABLE and/or BIODEGRADABLE green trash bags like these
are NOT suitable for our bin. Please DO NOT PUT THEM in our composter.
They work for landfills over long time periods, but not for compost bins like ours.
Also, please add shredded paper, cardboard, egg cartons to your scraps.
Thank you!
7/5/23
5/21/23
5/3/23
Tree fertilizer spikes
Invisible garden maintenance . . . we pushed fertilizer spikes into the drip lines of the trees and bushes in our outside beds, first time in at least twelve years that they've been fed. The soil in our garden is primarily builders rubble (was excavated when the building was constructed in 1937), with a thin layer of self composted vegetation that has accumulated over time, so not rich at all for plants that send roots deep.
4/29/23
1/9/23
NOTE ABOUT SHREDDED PAPER
A note to all the people in the building who contribute SHREDDED PAPER to the compost.
We thank you for your it.
Please only donate it if it has NO PLASTIC PIECES (envelope windows, credit cards etc). As it happens, plastic is not compostable and will make the decomposition process of our compost very difficult and slow.
Thank you very much.
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