Compost is not soil but a soil amendment, which means that you add compost to soil in order to reintroduce nutrients to those microbiomes. Beyond its ability to foster healthy plant growth or green spaces in urban spaces, healthy soil can also sequester carbon and mitigate flooding events. Therefore, incorporation of compost within soil can help reverse some effects of climate change that we currently face today. 

In this episode, “Compost Cycles,” Renée Crowley (Deputy Director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center) tells a story about a local compost program in New York City. Crowley discusses how the creation, collection, processing, and reuse and integration of food-waste is a cyclical process and sustainable application of our food resources. 

All proceeds from this episode will be donated to the Lower East Side Ecology Center, a community-based organization that offers e-waste and composting services, environmental stewardship opportunities, and educational programming to all New Yorkers.