{"id":17158,"date":"2019-11-25T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/how-composting-helped-make-filbert-street-community-garden-the-wakanda-of-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:58:04","slug":"wakanda-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/wakanda-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective","title":{"rendered":"How Composting Helped Make Filbert Street Community Garden the Wakanda of South Baltimore (feat. Baltimore Compost Collective)"},"template":"","class_list":["post-17158","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-podcasts-videos","initiatives-composting-for-community","authors-linda-bilsens-brolis"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":3169,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[34],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":false,"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"<p>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.  &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/wakanda-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective\/\" aria-label=\"How Composting Helped Make Filbert Street Community Garden the Wakanda of South Baltimore (feat. Baltimore Compost Collective)\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n","authors_tax":[635]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome back to the Composting for Community podcast! 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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also discuss:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How 80% of Baltimore\u2019s trash can be recycled or composted, which are positive alternatives to landfilling or incineration<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The startling impacts of burning trash including $55 million per year in health costs due to one of Baltimore\u2019s incinerators\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0opportunities that local composting creates for engaging and empowering youth, including those with learning disabilities or those that are otherwise disadvantaged<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How the Baltimore Compost Collective and their partner, Filbert Street Community Garden, have created the \u201cWakanda of South Baltimore\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nListen to this episode, then check out more episodes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/composting-for-community-podcast-homepage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Composting for Community Podcast<\/a>.\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<h2><b>At Curtis Bay, we\u2019re providing opportunity for youth in that neighborhood to learn small scale composting, entrepreneurial skills, and life skills for them to be supported to become the new leaders to lead Baltimore towards zero waste<\/b>.<\/h2>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<iframe id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fcomposting_for_community_ilsr%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fcomposting_for_community_ilsr%2FEDITED_Linda_and_Marvin_Composting_Podcast.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Filsr.org%2Fwakanda-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective%2F#mode-Light&amp;border-000000&amp;progress-000000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\r\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast (composting-for-community): <a class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" title=\"Play in new window\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/composting_for_community_ilsr\/content.blubrry.com\/composting_for_community_ilsr\/EDITED_Linda_and_Marvin_Composting_Podcast.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/composting_for_community_ilsr\/content.blubrry.com\/composting_for_community_ilsr\/EDITED_Linda_and_Marvin_Composting_Podcast.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"EDITED_Linda_and_Marvin_Composting_Podcast.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p id=\"powerpress_embed_74864-composting-for-community\" class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_74864-composting-for-community_t\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readonly=\"readonly\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fcomposting_for_community_ilsr%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fcomposting_for_community_ilsr%2FEDITED_Linda_and_Marvin_Composting_Podcast.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Filsr.org%2Fwakanda-south-baltimore-feat-baltimore-compost-collective%2F#mode-Light&amp;border-000000&amp;progress-000000&quot; 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height: 840px;\" border=\"yes\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Welcome back to the Composting for Community podcast. I\u2019m Linda Bilsens Brolis of ILSR\u2019s composting initiative. In this episode you\u2019ll be hearing from Marvin Hayes, program manager of the Baltimore Compost Collective. I talked to Marvin about how composting and recycling are positive alternatives to waste incineration and its associated health impacts such as asthma, how the Baltimore Compost Collective is showing the potential for growing a distributed composting infrastructure in Baltimore, and the opportunities local composting can provide youth, including those otherwise disadvantaged. As in all episodes, he also shares tips for new composting projects. Marvin\u2019s passion for empowering youth and his community to take an active role in creating a healthier and more sustainable future is contagious. I\u2019m excited for you to meet him. So let\u2019s dive in. For this episode, we\u2019re joined by someone I have a great amount of respect for, Mr. Marvin Hayes, who\u2019s the program manager for the Baltimore Compost Collective. Marvin is born and raised in Baltimore and has been mentoring youth for more than 20 years. With the compost collective, he mentors and trains youth from the Curtis Bay neighborhood in composting and work skills. I\u2019m so excited for you to meet him. So say hello Marvin.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Hello, my name is Marvin Hayes and I\u2019m the program manager for the Baltimore Compost Collective, a youth led food scrap collection service.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Awesome. So Marvin, tell our listeners a little bit more about the compost collective and how composting fits into the work.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Okay. Alright. Excellent. So once again, we are youth led food scrap collection service. We serve an amazing place called the Filbert Street Garden. I like to call the Filbert Street Garden the Wakanda of South Baltimore. A reason why I call it one of my favorite quotes from the Black Panther movie was in times of crisis, while the foolish make barriers, the wise make bridges. We are in a crisis in Baltimore City because we are burning trash and we know that compost is the alternative to trash, incineration or landfill. So we serve one of the most toxic communities in Baltimore City. We provide soil enhancers for residents who rent raised beds at the Filbert Street Garden. The amazing thing about the Filbert Street Garden is that it\u2019s located in a food insecure neighborhood. So those residents would have to travel about 25 minutes to get access to some fresh produce.\u00a0So we provide the soil enhancer for residents who live in a concrete jungle to be able to grow their own food. Also, we serve as a anti trash incineration. We are also surrounded in Curtis Bay by three incinerators, one that burns medical waste, one that burns waste from out of town, and one the notorious BRESCO Wheelabrator who claims that burning trash is clean energy. And we know that it\u2019s false, that it creates carbon dioxide in our incinerators and creates methane gas in our landfills and causing about $55 million in health issues in Baltimore City. So, right now we have 70 customers. I want to give a big shout out to my pioneers for composting and Federal Hill, Curtis Bay, Locust Point, Riverside, and Brooklyn. We\u2019re currently diverting from the landfills and incinerators, 400 pounds of food scraps. So we\u2019re doing some amazing work.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Perfect. So for those of you that don\u2019t know Baltimore very well, the neighborhoods that the compost collective serves are basically in South Baltimore. And then they bring the food scraps back to Curtis Bay, which is where the Filbert Street community garden is. And that\u2019s where the composting system is. So tell our listeners, Marvin, a little bit more about your community in Baltimore. Like if somebody has never been to Baltimore, what would you want them to know?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">If someone has not been to Baltimore, I want them to know that we are going to be this small scale composting program that\u2019s going to lead Baltimore to large scale composting. We are working for a mandatory recycling for Baltimore City and we\u2019re asking for curbside composting. A couple of facts, of Baltimore City municipal trash, 80% of it can be recycled. About 30% is food scraps and the other 50% can be recycled. So if we did that, we would only need a five gallon bucket for our waste. Baltimore is loaded with a lot of people who have tenacity. I\u2019m able to deal with issues that probably would break some other communities, but at Curtis Bay we\u2019re working together with the community to have a community run and operated garden that provides fresh produce for residents. And also we provide an opportunity for youth in that neighborhood to learn small scale composting entrepreneurial ship skills and also a opportunity to get life skills and development and just for them to be supported to become the new leaders to lead Baltimore towards zero waste.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Awesome. It sounds very exciting. A very positive spin on the current way we manage our waste. A positive alternative. So for folks that maybe have heard these sort of rumors about Baltimore or all these negative things about Baltimore, what would you want them to know? What are the, maybe some of the real challenges that some of the youth that are growing up in Baltimore are, but also some of the opportunities that exist?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Yes. I think you just hit the nail on the head, Linda, when you talked about, I think that youth are lacking opportunities. I think at the garden we provide them the opportunity to learn a skill. And a lot of our young people are lacking support. I find that young people can do anything that they want to or accomplish any of their goals if they\u2019re supported by adults that can help lead the way. So I think we\u2019re doing a great job at the Baltimore Compost Collective. Not only we diverting or rescuing food from going into the incinerators and landfills, but we\u2019re rescuing young people by giving them the opportunity to earn a living wage, to learn small scale composting and get an opportunity to give back to their neighborhood and an environmental way. My youth composter currently Mr. Kenneth Moss. Big shout out to Mr. Kenneth Moss from Ben Franklin High School and all of my youth composters from Ben Franklin High School. I get so excited when I talk about my youth. Kenny is a track star at Ben Franklin High School. He\u2019s a youth composter for the Baltimore Compost Collective. He\u2019s a BMORE Beautiful block captain. And so not only he\u2019s managing two jobs while he goes to school, but he helps take care of his blocks. So anytime they have any litter or any dumping Kenny cleans that up and reports it to 3-1-1 so that it can be maintained. Along with that, he got an opportunity to be a youth fellow at the mayor\u2019s office through Zeke Cohen\u2019s office where he just completed his mayor\u2019s fellow internship this summer. He started his own business, Kenny Captures, got to give a plug, just a kid with a camera. So please, support him. Look for him on Facebook. And like I say, we had a young man not only one of my first youth composters I had a son of a Dreamer and I had a Level 5 student. This young man never left Baltimore City and the Baltimore Compost Collective gave him an opportunity to leave Baltimore and go to Atlanta to a conference to speak about environmental justice work that he\u2019s been doing. And he\u2019s one of the pioneers for this youth composting, youth led food scrap collection service. He had never got on a plane. His mom worked in the airport for four years. As he went down the runway to enter the plane, he started to cry and he said, Mr. Hayes, I never left my mother and I\u2019ve never left Baltimore before. And I said, you know, Ramon, your mom, your mom is so proud of you, you be brave for her and do this and just to give him an opportunity to leave, not only Baltimore, but he never left South Baltimore. So to give him an opportunity to expand his horizons and see that as possible, he looked at the board and he said, Mr. Hayes, I can go to Denver. I can go to Los Angeles. And I said, yes, all of these are opportunities for you and who know that we could do these based on some food scraps, rescuing food scraps could also rescue young people, can give out the squeegee kids of Baltimore, opportunity for workforce development. So let\u2019s open up large scale composting and I can provide opportunities for youth.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Great. And just so that folks who aren\u2019t familiar with the term level five, what does that refer to?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">A special education student. One who now can do a small scale compost and there\u2019s a compost that are trained me on composting. So I learned what I learned from Ramon. Ramon was one of first teachers when it came to compost. So never put any type of, you know I would never say that his him being a special education student stopped him. The hands-on learning help enhance his, his learning. So having the opportunity to work with his hands, he could actually explain how to go about how to compost. So he has those skills. He\u2019s now working as assistant manager with a food franchise. Has his own apartment. When he started with me, didn\u2019t have a Maryland state ID, social security card, birth certificate. We worked with him, got his birth certificate, social security. The program shut down for about four months and we had to restart. So we lost our first composters doing that organization that had held the compost for two years, closed down after 41 years. And I was able to stick it out for four months. But the young people were the great thing that the bad thing was that they lost the edge off, the great thing through the program, they were job ready. So immediately after the opportunity close with the Baltimore Compost Collective, they were ready. They were employable. So I think we\u2019re doing a great job of making sure that young people are job ready.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Definitely. And just to clarify, how long has the Baltimore Compost Collective been around?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Three years. When I started we had five customers. We walked around door to door through Federal Hill, Riverside, and Locust Point educating people on the benefits of composting. And I just want to thank those three communities for just supporting the Baltimore Compost Collective and being the pioneers to lead Baltimore towards zero waste.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Awesome. Super exciting. So, some research that ILSR did last year or so, we found that there are 50 or so community gardens in Baltimore and that there are some over 5,000 vacant lots in Baltimore that have not yet been served by an existing adopt a lot program. Keeping those couple of facts in mind, what do you think the potential for community composting in Baltimore is?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">I think it\u2019s a great potential to have compost sites at all of those, or at the majority. They can be turned into urban gardens, urban farms, and have composting site staff. We\u2019re able to divert 400 pounds, and if every community garden or open space that can be used for composting, and we can set up three bin systems there, then we have a potential of diverting tons from going into the landfills and the incinerator. So we have opportunity with all the space that we have to turn a negative into a positive and create community gardens where our residents can learn farm to table, healthy living, healthy eating, and actually learn the benefits of composting because those neighborhoods are affected. 55 million people suffer from health issues due to us burning trash. The asthma, we had the third largest asthma rate in the country. So if we stop burning trash, we can help eliminate some of those problems. And with all the space that we had, we had the space, we just have to use it. So I\u2019m all for development without displacement and using those areas that were once maybe full of crime, now they can be turned into community gardens, just like the Filbert Street Garden was once a dumping site on an abandoned lot. And now it\u2019s one of the most thriving parts of that neighborhood. The most positive part of that neighborhood. Like I say in all of my interviews, it\u2019s like stepping into the garden of Eden coming from West Baltimore, Sandtown, I am so blessed to work there. To be greeted by ducks and chickens when I walk into the gate and just as sustainable and give a young people opportunity.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">It is a beautiful spot and I think when we\u2019re talking about you know, the Baltimore Compost Collective, it is acting as a model of what could be happening on other vacant lots. The Baltimore Compost Collective and Filbert Street community garden paired together. I\u2019d be remiss if we didn\u2019t mention that one of the inspirations for the Baltimore Compost Collective was BK ROT up in Brooklyn, New York. All those guys are super inspiring. So they have employed a number of youth. I think they\u2019ve been around since 2013 or so. And we very much draw inspiration from them because they are leading the way in teaching the full cycle of the food system. Where does food go when we don\u2019t eat it? If it doesn\u2019t get wasted, we can compost it and then that compost goes into feeding the garden. And so shout out to BK ROT. You should definitely check them out if you haven\u2019t before. Marvin, what advice would you give a composter that\u2019s just getting started. What do you wish that you would have known when you were getting started?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Wow. I would just say just stick to it. Compost. You cannot learn in one training session. It\u2019s going to come from flipping those piles, troubleshooting those piles. Remember that you\u2019re doing something great for the community, that you\u2019re diverting that waste and turning it into a beautiful soil enhancer as Linda said. I\u2019ll campaign at the Baltimore Compost Collective, compost learn so you don\u2019t have to burn, starve the incinerators, feed the soil, feed the community. So if you can make healthy, enhancer, you\u2019ll have healthy food, healthy vegetables, and just stay with it. You know it can, it\u2019s very labor intensive, but it\u2019s so rewarding when you get that black gold at the end of four months and you\u2019re able to give it. And so many people are excited about it. I\u2019ve never been so excited about a black gold in my life or didn\u2019t know that exist or never really, it\u2019s an art to me to make it and my recipes and trying different things. It\u2019s amazing to be able to give back. I can make one of the earth\u2019s elements. So that\u2019s amazing to me and I\u2019m able to teach that to other people. So.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">And you don\u2019t need a gym membership?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">No. You do not. You do not need a gym membership. You just need a spade shovel, a chopper, and a, and a compost shovel.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Yeah. And a composting system helps.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Yes. Yes. Six bins or more. Yes.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Alright. What are some of your goals for the coming year that you might want to share with folks?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Okay. so goals, we want to do a community drop off for our gardeners at the Filbert Street Garden. So we\u2019re working on that. We have been blessed by NRDC and the Office of Sustainability, so we\u2019re going to be expanding our composting unit. They\u2019re gonna provide a concrete pad for us. So we\u2019re going to be researching what system to deal with the amount of waste that I\u2019m receiving on a on a weekly basis. So I\u2019m looking forward to building that new system and learning more about compost and be able to share what a community scale composting can look like. And several, and we\u2019ll have several systems to be a model for other gardens. And I have a composting unit sign also. My goal for this year would be more educating. I want to be able to educate Baltimore City youth on the benefits of composting. I think that we have to reach that age group through K through 12. They are our leaders and I need to teach them about anti incineration and that composting is the alternative to trash incinerators so they can be here. So I\u2019m like, I tell everybody, I hope that will be my legacy. I know we will never get to 100% zero waste, but if we get to 80 or 90, or if I just start Baltimore City to start there, a large scale composting site and hire some youth, hire some ex offender, hire the squeegee boys, give them an opportunity to be the entrepreneurs that they are and give them opportunity for workforce development.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">That sounds like a very inspiring vision. Can you, can you tell folks what is a squeegee boy?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Oh so squeegee boys are young men who want to be entrepreneurs and they want to make an income for their selves and they go around and they clean people\u2019s windows throughout Baltimore City. Some of them have done some negative things and, but it\u2019s not all of them. So you can send me all of the, all of the positive you know, they have great entrepreneurial leadership skills. So I think if we take on their positives and give them an opportunity, once again, they\u2019re just young man looking for an opportunity. They don\u2019t mean to hurt anybody. They don\u2019t mean to harass anybody. But unfortunately here Baltimore City, we don\u2019t have a lot of opportunities for the youth. So open this large-scale composting, and let me run it and hire all the youth of Baltimore City. Please give me all your ex-offenders who are doing amazing composting and the institutions and doing amazing. They\u2019re master gardeners. So if you give them out and once they come back and they can transition into the workforce and making a living, they won\u2019t have to go back to negative. We will not have a retention rate over at the jail. We will have a recidivism rate where they\u2019re coming in being prominent positive members of our community. So that\u2019s what I would like to see happen. So that\u2019s a little bit of a squeegee boy. Squeegee boy, he\u2019s just a guy that goes around with a squeegee and a little bit of Windex and wash your windows for you for a small fee. And they are the entrepreneurs, but they just need support and opportunities.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">I think those, that\u2019s a very good perspective that if we can funnel people\u2019s energy and intention into something positive, especially something that you know, benefits the environment during this climate crisis that we\u2019re facing at the same time that we\u2019re helping people meet their own needs, I think that\u2019s a win-win for everybody.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">I think exposure is so important. Three years ago, could I tell you that I would be a master composter would I tell you at a Sandtown Winchester that I would have vermiculture that would be composting my food. My food scraps with worms with a hundred red wigglers, two totes and a little bit of soul and two inches of food scrap. It\u2019s come from exposure and come from support. I think I think if you provide support for anybody they will flourish. And I\u2019ve been so supported the collective truly is a collective. Without my partners\u2014 another quote it\u2019s hard for a good man to be King. You must surround yourself with good people. So any advice for anybody that wants to do composting, get a great team, get people that\u2019s going to support. I\u2019m so blessed to have the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, United Workers, the Filbert Street Garden, Baltimore City, the Office of Sustainability, NRDC, Pure Raw Juice, my residents in Federal Hill, Curtis Bay, Brooklyn, Locust Point, Riverside. You guys are why the compost collective is, is, is successful. So surround yourself by good people. Create a team, help somebody else out. When you\u2019re starting out, it can be overwhelming, trying to find space to put your food scraps or to process them. So just, have patience. And be willing to learn and you know, you\u2019ll, you\u2019ll make some amazing black gold soil enhancer.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">That\u2019s great advice for everybody. As a, as a closing, how can folks learn more about the Baltimore Compost Collective?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">You can go to Baltimore Compost Collective dot org. Please go to our gallery section where you\u2019ll see all of the amazing workshops that I\u2019ve been having, the opportunity, me and myself and my youth composter, Mr. Kenny Moss, to educate Baltimore City about the benefits of compost. Please go to our news section. We have a new article in In These Times. Asthma compost can be a alternative to lower the asthma rate. So please read that article. Excellent article. Thank you, In These Times. Thank you so much.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Awesome. well thank you Marvin so much for joining us and thank you all for listening.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Marvin Hayes<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Thank you. Thank you. Compost; a rind is a terrible thing to waste.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 45.7986px;\">Linda Bilsens Brolis<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 982.465px;\">Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Composting for Community podcast from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. This episode is produced by myself and Hibba Meraay. We\u2019ll be back again next month with a new episode. Our theme music is, I Dunno, from Grapes. 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