Composting for Community

In this episode, host Sophia Hosain is joined by Composting for Community’s intern Alondra Sierra and Nando Rodriguez, environmental facilitator at The Brotherhood Sister Sol in Harlem, New York. Nando shares with us the various ways he engages youth in composting activities. He also dives into the role that environmental practices for Black and Latinx youth play in helping preserve and honor their cultural roots.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/composting-connects-roots/

On this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, ILSR’s Linda Bilsens Brolis and Sophia Hosain speak with Emma Jagoz, owner of Moon Valley Farm in Maryland. They discuss the role compost has played in supporting the growth of their community-supported, first generation farm that is growing certified organic vegetables and herbs for Maryland and Washington, D.C. 

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https://ilsr.org/articles/compost-builds-healthy-soils-moon-valley/

On this episode, ILSR’s Brenda Platt dialogues with Michael Bradlee, President of Earth Appliance Organics in Providence, Rhode Island, to discuss how one community composter is continuing to collect and compost food scraps with new safety protocols in place.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/covid-safety-protocols-feat-community-compost-depot/

On this episode, guest host Brenda Platt talks with Elsa Higby and Aleks Jagiello of the New York Compost Project Hosted by Queens Botanical Garden. This is Part 2 of ILSR’s discussion with them; to catch the first part, head over to our Building Local Power Podcast.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/the-case-for-government-support-of-community-composting/

On this episode, I’m joined by Benny Erez of ECO City Farms, who I consider to be a composting mentor. Benny talks about the role ECO City Farms plays in providing affordable fresh produce in two food insecure neighborhoods near Washington, D.C. We discuss his compost training work locally in the D.C. Metro Area and abroad in Zambia, Ghana, and Palestine.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/composting-helps-nourish-communities-feat-eco-city-farms/

Host Linda Bilsens Brolis sat down with Marvin Hayes of the Baltimore Compost Collective for an inspiring conversation about the future of small-scale composting in Baltimore. Marvin and Linda talk about how the Baltimore Compost Collective is empowering and employing local youth while also revitalizing South Baltimore, creating quality compost and fighting food deserts. 

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https://ilsr.org/articles/baltimore-compost-collective-blp-episode-89/

On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Jeffrey Neal of Loop Closing. They discuss his vision for how small-scale, hyper-local composting can handle all of the food waste produced in Washington, DC, and the support needed to realize it.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/how-local-composting-can-transform-washington-dc-feat-loop-closing/

On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Marvin Hayes of the Baltimore Compost Collective. Marvin and Linda talk about how the Baltimore Compost Collective is empowering and employing local youth while also creating a model that can be replicated throughout the City of Baltimore to create a distributed composting infrastructure.  

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https://ilsr.org/articles/wakanda-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective/

On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Domingo Morales and Kenneth Young of Red Hook Community Farm. Domingo and Kenneth talk about the power of being exposed to urban agriculture and composting at a young age and the importance of getting the community involved in your composting project.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/community-composting-and-the-power-of-youth/

On this episode, host Linda Bilsens Brolis is joined by Michael Robinson, Co-Founder of Rust Belt Riders. Michael (pictured, third from left) explains how Rust Belt Riders is closing the local food system loop in Cleveland by collecting food scraps from restaurants and creating compost and soil blends for local food production.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/regenerative-systems-thinking-feat-rust-belt-riders/