NYCLeaves: Project LeafDrop

The City will compost your Christmas trees if you leave them on the curb, but this weekend, many local parks will mulch them, and some will give you mulch to take home!

The Brooklyn Food Coalition proposes linking Christmas Tree Recycling with Fall Leaf Recycling.  No, not by reconstructing a holiday tree from fallen maple leaves, [...]

The peak of leaf season has passed, but after turning our hands and hearts to family and friends for the holidays, we’re back!

wheel of compost fortune

On the agenda is, first and foremost, MUCH gratitude to all participants and supporters who made Project LeafDrop a success!  Because of your efforts, at least seven tons of [...]

Check out these videos!

McCarren Park: http://northbrooklyncompostproject.wordpress.com/

Astoria Park: http://ny1.com/8-queens-news-content/top_stories/109396/astoria-residents-take-part-in-leaf-fest-2009

Photos and stories coming soon as well…

The big LeafDrop weekend went great — totals are starting to roll in, and we’ll let you know soon how many tons our coalition of gardens accepted. But some gardens are still accepting leaves. See below.

For help locating the gardens, click on the correct borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens.

Accepting leaves Nov. 28

North Brooklyn Compost [...]

This Saturday and Sunday are the biggest days yet for Project LeafDrop. We have more gardens participating, more volunteers to weigh your contributions and more confidence that we can persuade the city to reinstate the Department of Sanitation’s leaf composting program. All we need is more leaves – YOUR leaves.

Bring your bagged leaves to the [...]

Thank you, New Yorkers! We already have thousands of pounds of leaves beginning to turn into fabulous compost as some two dozen gardens around the city do their part to make up for the loss of the Department of Sanitation’s leaf composting program.  Here are your dropoff options for this week (click here for the [...]

To repeat: Last year, our NYC Council representatives cut the collection and compost of residential leaves out of the city’s budget.

So we – community gardeners, neighborhood associations, and concerned residents – are uniting to harvest and compost fallen leaves, and to document our efforts. We want to keep the compostables [...]

Saturday, Nov. 7, Is Project LeafDrop Day One

Last year, our NYC Council representatives cut the collection and compost of residential leaves out of the city’s budget.

So we – community gardeners, neighborhood associations, and concerned residents – are uniting to harvest and compost fallen leaves, and to  document our efforts. We want to keep the [...]

If you or friends in Queens can bring browns to greens, please know that you can bring leaves tonight (and every Thursday through Nov.19 from 6-8pm) to St. Marks Garden in Jackson Heights – 34th ave. btw 81st/ 81st streets.   Thank you, Lenny!  More updates on the way…

As of November 3rd, we’re counting 18 sites in Brooklyn, two in the Bronx, two in Manhattan, and three in Queens as LeafDrop sites this fall!   In addition, in the event of an overflow of leaves at any garden, we now have the gracious support of the Council on the Environment of NYC as [...]