Garden Of Resilience, Mom Who Care and Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson will be hosting a Compost Give Back event on April 30, 2022 from 10-1 PM.The Department of Sanitation is providing the event with 60 bags of compost and Queens Botanical Garden will provide individual bags that can be used for your houseplants. According to the Environmental Protective Agency Compost’s creates the following benefits:
- Enriches soil, helping retain moisture and suppress plant diseases and pests.
- Reduces the need for chemical fertilizers.
- Encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi that break down organic matter to create humus, a rich nutrient-filled material.
Youth from DIVAS for Social Justice’s Aim High program funded by the New York Life Foundation will be on hand to provide community members with literature and demonstrations on the importance of composting. Mom’s Who Care will lead a literacy workshop and provide free books to children who attend.
Assemblyman Anderson has a established a food scrap drop off site at his office in South Ozone Park recently, Anderson added:
“I am proud to announce my office at 131-17 Rockaway Blvd., South Ozone Park NY 11420, will be the proud host for a composting site on Thursdays during morning hours. Bring your leftover fruits, vegetables, eggshells, nuts, houseplants, bread, grains, and pasta for disposal. We won’t accept meat, fish, dairy products, metal, glass or plastic. These food scraps will be turning into compost by the Department of Sanitation, which provides our local community gardens, such as the Garden of Resilience in Springfield Gardens, with nutrient rich soil to grow fresh produce. Community gardens play a critical for our communities in tackling the food apartheid and nutrition insecurity. Join my office, DSNY, and the Garden of Resilience for this green initiative!”
Garden Of Resilience was the 1st community garden to be a food scrap drop off site with the support of the Queens Botanical Gardens. The compost provided by QBG and DSNY will encourage a more green Southeast Queens and it’s free! Come pick up your compost and help us make our community more healthy and just.
Place: Garden Of Resilience
179-18 145th Dr
Springfield Gardens, 11434
