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Huge Grant Announcement!

Thanks to the City’s Eco Office, FEED MKE Pilot Project and the USDA Compost and Food Waste Reduction Award, Kompost Kids is adding Bokashi composting to our MKE community compost site.  Join our #BokashiBunch so you can #BokashiWithKompostKids!  We need 20 local households to pilot test community Bokashi composting in MKE. So we accurately assess capacity and grow the program, we’re asking pilot challenge

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Building MKE Bokashi Community in 2025

In 2025, we’re piloting a very old (but new to Milwaukee community gardens) form of composting: Bokashi. In short, Bokashi composting ferments organics very quickly. After that, gardeners can trench the fermented/partially decomposed organics into the soil. After roughly a month of curing, that nutrient rich soil is ready for planting. Follow us and join in the fun! Sign up here to volunteer AND learn at the same time. Starting

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New Location – Garden District!

YIPPEEE!!!! We’ve moved, cleaned up the landscaping (ahem) “leftovers,” and are ready to build compost bins at our new site. Come join Saturday, November 7th 10AM – 1PM. The new spot is on the corner of S. 6th Street & W. Waterford Ave. in Milwaukee’s Garden District. Mask up and see our new home. Want to help build? With COVID-19 and #SaferAtHome we are

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Riverwest Compost Bins – Closed Indefinitely

UPDATE October 2020: With input from the gardeners and land stewards of the Milwaukee Friends Meeting location, the Kompost Kids volunteers made the decision to close the Riverwest compost bins indefinitely. Despite being closed over the summer, folks kept adding to the pile – which made it really hard on the volunteers to safely finish off the process. Community compost bins only work when

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Bay View Kompost Site Help!

  As of March 15th, 2020, the Bay View Kompost site is closed and we cannot accept any of your food scraps (or anything else) until we find a new home. We hope our community is staying well and finding some outdoor earth-loving time in this uncertainty. We are also craving some normalcy for when we can emerge together — so acknowledge how strange

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2020 Bash Planning!

Green Team Meet-Up for a Zero-Waste Bash! Kompost Kids needs a few dedicated Trash Heroes to help shape our sustainability team for the 2020 Bay View Bash. Want to learn more? Come meet Green Team Co-Lead, Renee, before the full Bash planning meeting later that night. *1st beer on her :)* Join this Facebook Event to reserve your spot today. MORE INFO: –Check out

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2019 Press Release Bay View Bash Trash

For Immediate Release Kompost Kids’ 10th Year Composting the Bay View Bash Trash Volunteers Make Strides Towards Near-Zero Waste Festival Milwaukee, WI – Those dumpster divers are at it again! Kompost Kids trash heroes and waste audit return to the Bay View Bash (Saturday, September 21, 2019; 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM on Kinnickinnic Ave. between Potter and Clement). In 2018, over 100 volunteers racked

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Bay View Bash Quick Info!

Lots of fun information about the Bay View Bash coming up September 21 – the link to our main page is here [or www.kompostkids.org/bvb], and these are the quick links: 2019 Press Release Donate to Support Trash Heroes Here Funded Green Team Volunteer Info Individual Volunteer Sign-Up (No Teams) MKE No Waste MKENoWaste Stats and Infographics Win our #MKENoWaste Contest Near Zero-Waste Education Opportunity Volunteers

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