{"id":17233,"date":"2020-03-16T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/the-case-for-government-support-of-community-composting-feat-queens-botanical-garden\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:11:18","slug":"the-case-for-government-support-of-community-composting","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/the-case-for-government-support-of-community-composting","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Government Support of Community Composting (feat. 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This is Part 2 of ILSR\u2019s discussion with them; to catch the first part, head over to our Building Local Power Podcast.&hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/the-case-for-government-support-of-community-composting\/\" aria-label=\"The Case for Government Support of Community Composting (feat. Queens Botanical Garden)\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n","authors_tax":[614]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome back to the Composting for Community podcast! On this episode, guest host Brenda Platt talks with Elsa Higby and Aleks Jagiello of the <a href=\"https:\/\/queensbotanical.org\/farmandcompost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Compost Project Hosted by Queens Botanical Garden<\/a>. This is Part 2 of ILSR\u2019s discussion with them; to catch the first part, head over to our <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/nyc-composting-blp-episode-93\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Local Power Podcast<\/a>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elsa and Aleks talk about:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The growth of the composting program at Queens Botanical Garden<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What equipment they have found most helpful<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How the site is managed\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NYC\u2019s support of community composting<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These drop-offs become kind of like community hubs. 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