Who We Are

NYCLeaves is a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based coalition of gardeners and greening partners who are harvesting residential leaves for compost this fall. Questions, comments, tools? Email compost@nycleaves.org

Thanks to Our Partners

GREEN THUMB, north brooklyn compost project, SOLAR ONE, flatbush gardener, SUSTAINABLE FLATBUSH, neighborhood open space coalition, EAST NEW YORK FARMS, bk farmyards, 6/15 GREEN, brooklyn green team, EARTH MATTER NY, green edge nyc, BROOKLYN BASED, park slope food coop, CENYC, green guerillas, BUILD IT GREEN NYC, architecture for humanity ny, BBG, lower east side ecology center, QBG, and all staff of the nyc compost project!

 

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ACTION

Join the effort to keep renewable materials out of landfills and back into our soil by making leaf compost with your neighbors. Here’s how to help:

(1) Add Your Garden to the project if you can accept and compost leaves, and check our Tools and Q+A.

Leaf it at the Gate
Don’t leave it at the gate! Make contact.

(2) Rake your leaves, collect them in clear or paper bags (no branches or trash), and get the word out to a garden near you. You’ll find a growing list of confirmed gardens that are accepting leaves on Borough Resources, but Brooklynites can go right to BKdecay:  Five dates in November have been chosen for leaf drop-off: 7+8 (Sat/Sun), 14 (Sat), and 21+22 (Sat/Sun) from 11am-1pm.   (Note: not all gardens can participate on all five days.)

If you already have bags filled with leaves and you don’t want to trash them, ask your local community gardeners if they’d like to participate, and chances are, your leaves can be accepted earlier. Note to participating gardens: please encourage neighbors not to leave bags outside the gate (or risk a hefty fine), and keep track of bags before opening. See  the Tools page for more info.

(3) Volunteer with your local garden on drop-off days.  At least three  volunteers are needed at each participating garden , so take this opportunity  to help document the greening of your community! Great way to meet your neighbors, too.

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(4) Spread the word at your local library, school, church, arts collective, CSA or BID. For flyer ideas, check out our Tools, Printable Flyers,  and Facebook page.

(5) Sign the petition to reinstate municipal leaf compost (over 1500 signatures so far), and take just one minute to check out our Advocacy page.  Every call or postcard to our elected leaders makes all the difference for our gardens and green spaces:

ONE phone call = 1,000 online signatures.

It takes either 5 phone calls or 5,000 signatures to make an impact.

Imagine the influence that calls in every district could have on the future of the city…


Many thanks to the Master Composter Program and the NYC Compost Project, funded since 1993 by the NYC Dept of Sanitation’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling.

And thanks especially to Kendall from Earth Matter who gave us the space for this website!