LA COMPOST

Starting tomorrow 1/18, we will be collecting organic material every Wednesday from the #LarchmontVillageFarmersMarket from 1-5 PM. Excited to meet residents in the Larchmont + Koreatown neighborhoods and beyond. #LetsCompostTogether

Friendly reminder to freeze your food scraps and drop them off at @LACOMPOST’s drop off site at Silver Lake Farmers Market on Saturday 9am-1:30pm. 🌱🌱🌱

Tune in to the @CALittleHoover Commission on July 6th where our Director of Advocacy @nick_lapis will be speaking on SB 1383 and Organic Waste

We will be joined by @voteuduakjoe (@LBCityCollege), Speaker @Rendon63rd (CA Assembly), @nick_lapis (@cawrecycles), Monique Figueiredo (Compostable LA), Michael Martinez (@LACOMPOST), Barbara Romero (@LACitySAN), Sharon Green (@SanDistricts), and @cobster1 (@LACoPublicWorks).

✨REMINDER: The @lariverfm will be closed THIS THURSDAY, June 16th. We will be back next week on June 23rd. ⁠

Celebrating healthy soils in the heart of LA last month with @mayorofla @LACityParks and @LACitySAN. Join us at LA Compost's Regional Compost hub in #GriffithPark!

LA Compost estará recibiendo materiales compostables en el nuevo #LARiverFarmersMarket @LASHP a partir del próximo jueves, de 3pm a 7:30pm!

LA Compost will be collecting compostable material at the new #LARiverFarmersMarket @LASHP starting next Thursday, 3pm-7:30pm. #soilandpeople

Join LA Compost & Bonnie Wright for a compost workshop that will highlight the ways composting can help heal our soils and ourselves.⁠ ⁠ Following the workshop, Bonnie will lead a reading from her long-awaited guide to sustainability, "Go Gently". earthloving.eventbrite.com

⭐STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Gina Vollono⭐⁠⁠ Learn more about Gina, our Projects and Operations Manager, and hear from her THIS THURSDAY at our Virtual Workshop: Anyone Can Compost at 5pm! Registration is required, so RSVP today at compostearthmonth.eventbrite.com ⁠

Today the work and passion of LA Compost volunteers, supporters, and team members were featured on the front page of the @latimes. ⁠Read more: lat.ms/3tfv9UU ⁠

Sometimes #communitycomposting looks like this! 👀⁠ Photo featuring and taken by LA Compost Team members at the Griffith Park Regional Compost Hub.

"To love a place is not enough, we must find ways to heal it." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants #InternationalWomensDay⁠

We were featured in @latimesplants! Check it out: latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…

Celebrating the work of American chef Edna Lewis. #BlackHistoryMonth

Resharing this awesome post from community member @abc7jory! Find a composting site near you via lacompost.org/start-composti…⁠ ⁠

LA Compost is now at the Silver Lake Farmers' Market. Bring your food scraps and browns over to us starting this Saturday, Feb 19th. #communitycompost

Black Americans have shaped our food system in countless ways. The work we must do as a community to uphold anti-racism does not stop with educating ourselves. But it does start there. ⁠ ⁠ Join us in honoring those who have shaped our food system throughout #BlackHistoryMonth

In 2021 this #compost community diverted 804, 159 lbs of organics from landfills.👏 Read more about compost addressing #climatechange in our 2021 Annual Report: lacompost.org/2021-annual-re…

LA Compost is hiring a San Gabriel Valley Compost Manager! Visit lacompost.org/jobs-internshi… to read more info and apply by Feb 6th at 5pm.