How This Urban Farm Creates 300,000 lbs of Compost by Hand
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this video brought to you by the Local Motives UA-cam channel, we explore how a small community urban farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn produces over 150 tons of compost every year with just hand tools. Through the help of over 2000 volunteers, the Red Hook Community Urban Farm diverts over 300,000 lbs (pounds) of food scraps, food waste, and yard waste from the landfill. This NYC urban farm uses large piles of food waste to create compost. The NYC urban farm not only educates volunteers on how to compost and grow their own food in an urban agriculture environment, but they also put them to work turning compost piles to create the perfect soil for growing organic vegetables and produce. This is an excellent example of how small farms, collective work, and a good idea can make a big impact on climate change.
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I am fine with the farm as long as it does not cost me money.
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What this guy does is modest when compared with the size of the issue, but damn, he’s doing it, and he’s doing it big. This is really inspiring. He is really inspiring. God bless him
Awe man this was such a solid collab Charlie. Great to see this kinda stuff on your channel!
thanks levi :)
Learning how to Compost should be a life skill taught to every child as part of teaching future resiliency.
Smart and motivated young man. Keep it up!!!
Seeing all these people working hard for a better future makes me happy,stay safe everyone working outside
This is great! We compost our food and garden waste into two compost bins that sit over the garden soil. Live in a hot dry climate and the compost we produce is doing wonders for our garden and reducing the requirement to fertilise and water. Being in ground bins also attracts beneficial life into the garden further benefitting our plants.
nice to see projects like this. the world needs more of these
I love the Local Motives boys!!
I really appreciate the positivity and productive-focus of this video. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the normal OCC videos but it would be nice to see some more videos about the positive things happening and the people making a difference. Or even videos on what we can do to help out. Keep it up!
Very proud that this operation is done in Brooklyn!
It would be cool if they start a youtube channel and provide some tips to educate people. Also to let us see how things goes in the community :D
This is what I put around trees that are growing in the garden.
Seems a great example for the whole world and let's start in every city in our country..Might pay in food stamps...
Thanks
Excellent. Great to learn about your project . I've composted fro 20 Yrs. Keep up the good work . 👍
Great story. The media tends to only show negative that happens in the hood. If it bleeds it leads, and it's often based on anti-black, anti-latino themes. Your channel has helped to eliminate the bias, all while also educating people about composting, and how to be more eco-friendly. A friend of mine emailed you all re composting.
I praise God that these men are giving themselves to do what’s right. 🌿🌸🌧🐞🌱☀️🍂🥬🍌🍎🥑🫐🥕🌻
What a wonderful story!!
AWESOME to see this!!! We need more of this news in our lives. Thank you :-)
Great job!!! Point to this when people say millennial's don't know how to work
UA-cam needs to get the algorithms to promote this. Disgusting how only crazy conspiracies get all the attention and not the stuff that actually matters like this
Great video,Fantastic people !!!
My family composts stuff! My mother has a vegetable garden and she uses the compost to grow the vegetables
This is freaking inspiring.
Awesome! Absolutely Inspirational!
“We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it."
--Barack Obama
Wait I can’t remember when I said it
Yet he massively increased US crude oil production 🧐
gnomadix Who’s driving the cars though. COVID was an opportunity to reflect and study how rigged/doomed the global game is but people are itching to carry on destroying the planet while tweeting about it.
I don't think it was Obama that said it. And he sure as hell didn't legistate like that.
@@lawrencetaylor4101 will do my best in 2034
Love this. Great work being done
Love it, thanks for sharing this! I've now subscribed to Local Motives too :)
This is awesome!
Hey, it's Domingo! Congratulations on this great feature Domingo! I'm subscribed to this channel and I recognized your face right away. By the way, this is jasmine from BFM.🤗
Thanks guys. Great motivational video 👌🏾
I encourage everyone to check out their channel if you liked the content of this video, because they have tons of other great videos on their channel.
Nice that you promote channels like this one, Charlie👍
Great wrk guys thank you
Good and great work! Guys! I really appreciate it. Greetings from India
this is magical
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After nyc cut compost funding lots of different community gardens and such are taking food waste to convert into compost, such as bkrot.
I LOVE THIS!!!!!
I love this video! It jist proves what we can do when we all do our part!
beautiful
Awesome
AWESOME! THANK YOU! 😍😍😍
Nice program
Amazing!
INSPIRING!!!!
Love seeing such a positive video about this great local effort!
Incredible, i wish my house would composte but my mom doesnt want it.
Maybe she just doesn’t understand how important it is. Try educating her and show her stuff like this video to show that you can do it without attracting pests and what not!
No worries. You can start composting when you move out. I'm sure you have already heard of these perks of composting but I will just list some that might convince parents to get on board. If they pay for private garbage service, it will obviously reduce the volume and cost they are incurring on that. Another perk: garbage won't be smelly anymore and less trips outside to take the garbage out! There are affordable apartment services that take your scraps and do the work for you. If your parents garden, composting produces a consistent stream of topsoil for that. Also, it's fun and I think strengthens people's relationship with food. You can see better which foods you are constantly needing to compost because they go bad quickly or you buy too much of before you ever have time to eat all of it. This helps your purchasing decisions and schedule of food prep. For us, raspberries go bad quickliest and so we will plan a morning of pancakes or oatmeal so we have a good opportunity to eat them before they go bad.
Maybe try and convince them to try a vermicomposting bin. That's a decent starter way of doing it.
If you are friendly with your neighbors, maybe you can see if they are interested!
if you grow vegetables, you can just dig a hole and throw the stuff in.
Can you do a "Is lego actually eco friendly" I've heard a lot about how they are now using sustainable packaging and how they're moving from plastic bricks to plant based bricks.
Good job!
They should have a community garden right beside this space with worm farming and a farmers market. I love this concept as I have a small business selling compost and worms locally. My channel here is also based on this concept. 😀
nice looking c ompost piles, but maybe you need to add some water as you build the piles/ turn them over..
Great video
There's a school Rudolf Steiner,. In organic farming, and school, pretty inspiration
I don't know it, from inside, but visit it.
Inspired
Hi guys! i know many people will ignore this comment, but for those who didn't, hear me out :) if u love the environment, please use Ecosia as your search engine. For every 45 searches u make, a tree will be planted somewhere. if you think this is fake, u can always look at their channel in youtube. Also stay safe guys :)
Hey is there any reasoning behind best win method of composting?
I have the opportunity to run a city composting facility, but im fighting against an ever decreasing budget and a city council that just doesn't get it.
With the impending phosphorus shortage, the future of artificial fertilizer looks shaky. Recycling more organic matter is gonna become real important in the next few decades.
This is the next big environmental/resource depletion issue. We have so many that most of the focus is on 2-3 at a time. I think we will hear more about it in 10 years.
There's a substantial amount of ag added phosphorus locked up in the soil that is not plant availble due to the "wrecked-up" biology of convention ag farm/range land. The complex bacterial & fungal components of the product derived from Johnson-Su Bioreactors can help release the phosphorus along with deliberate covercropping. Traditional compost is more a band aid. Short duration compost like the 15/18 day Berkeley Hot Compost Method (now famous with all the permies) even more so. It's more like hyped up mulch.
That’s why I’m starting to support more biodynamic farmers like The Barefoot Farmer!
@@flatsville1Buddy never gardened in his life. 😂
this is a cool vid.
nice!
This project is worth more than any "climate action" ever taken. Forget the CO2 - grow the ecosphere.
That's amazing that you can keep rats away. Chicago has a big problem with rats, and we are always having to deal with them in our community garden!
I have some questions:
If there are no machines, then what is the solar panel for, just for lighting?
Hi Guys, where do you get the shovel?
Wow
How can this idea be scaled up to other neighborhoods?
How do they get the food scraps? Are there organic compost bins? Or do they sort them from normal trash? It would be wonderful to make more of this initiatives!!
I work with a community garden in NYC that has food scrap drop-offs a couple of times a week, and the majority of what we collect goes to facilities like this! The other percentage of food scraps are processed into compost at the community garden. We can also get compost delivered to us from these facilities when we need it to feed our plants. Win-win-win!
What brown material are you using please answer.
I wish we have this in my country in Eastern Europe. We don't have policies that mobilize people into making compost out of the city's waste (and so the society is enabling the destructive environmental practices right now and they don't pay attention to the way some communities in America are treating organic waste already. per policy makers are dramatically lagging behind here in this part of Europe).
*Throwing food in the trash"
* Laughs in owning chickens *
I moved out a month ago and my dorm doesn't have compost bins and a piece of me dies every time i have to throw away something that could decompose to the same bin as everything else :(
Ohhh this seems like a great project! I guess machines (powered by renewable energy) cann still be useful for large scale composting sites, but these smaller community sites where people can volunteer and experience the process certainly have a great educational potential! And are probably more flexibel too.
Very interesting, thank you!
The concept and community is fantastic! However, if they want to educate others, they have much to learn themselves:
- Eggshell is not cellulose.
- Cellulose is carbon material like wood and plant stalks etc.
-Carbon doesn't start the thermophillic process. A mixture of nitrogen, water and oxygen mixed with this carbon get the process started.
- Composting food waste is great, but over the last couple decades it has become a hidden hazard. Fruit grown in other countries may be sprayed with chemicals that are persistent and remain in the fruit skins, then compost, then soil, then taken up by new plants, then ingested by people (forever chemicals).
- There is absolutely no difference in compost quality when done by hand or by machine, as long as both methods are done properly.
Great video, I will try to contact them to talk about Windyday Concept. I've had an idea how we can move to a 100% renewable world, but living in Switzerland which is the home of the Global Corporate HQ, they have been fighting what I've been trying for years.
Worker coop factories in all cities to make our own batteries, solar panels, wind & tide turbines, with local farms using ideas like this. I want to develop the People's EV but also trucks, buses, tractors, etc. And no self-driving, it would be local drivers having local jobs. With 5,000 EV's with a battery of 50 kWh, that would give a city a virtual battery of 250 MWh, which would make 100% Green energy possible. We can develop air ships for transportation, installation and maintenance of wind turbines. All we have to do to start this is community support.
Hey did I miss it? or they didnt say how they get leftovers, what are logistics?
You didn't miss it! Sometimes we choose to omit info for the sake of video length & flow. They get most of their material from residents in the area either through scheduled drop off sites or direct drop off at the farm. At the time, the NYC Compost Project & Brooklyn Botanical Garden were facilitating these drop off locations and transportation.
nice video!!! 🏆🏆🏆
Check out Local Motives! They've got a lot of videos similar to this on their channel!
300 000 lbs is approx 150 tons. Here is one tone sold for 500 CZK, i.e. 20 USD. So they produce 75 000 CZK, i.e. 3000 USD. It is too few to pay an employee...
Does this require the addition of any carbon source? And where does that supply come from?
Paper products provide carbon- cardboard, paper towels and napkins, etc. I bet they put notice about what they can take and where they get it in their info pages.
the onus of the climate change solution is on global industry and production chains, but this is still massive for the organized efforts of a community by one man. i agree with him, and id add that the true value of the project is its demonstration. they are doing this rat-free in brooklyn. no excuses!
just imagine if every city had one or two of these operations in every neighborhood with collection bins at every corner.
AT first glance it seems a good Idea but with a Closer look composting produces a lot of green housse gases....
Wow, is great that they are doing that. Soon I’ll start making compost at home so I can treat my own organic residues. Btw Charlie. I sent you and email with the topic: nuestro clima cambiante. Could you check it out please, mate?
Eggs and cellulose hmmmm but anyways great video collab
Do you add worms
You need to start a weight loss camp with a personal trainer.
What if you pushed air through the compost pile through the bottom?
Johnson su bioreactor. He builds a no turn compost that aerates itself
People pay to work out,this is a much better way to get exercise.
Has anyone calculated the amount of calories that goes into the labor they perform, how much food they need to eat to replenish those calories, and then how much fossil fuels are used to process, deliver that food?
Not sure why we dont have a separate organic waste trash bin like in Germany
I call bull on the no rats unless someone is there 24 7
surely there is a better way of turning the compost
Yea, like a backhoe or a skid steer
Does it requires oxygen
But it would be even better if they put the biological waste in a biomasse power plant. Then the same process is happening but on top of that (literally) you prevent the methane from getting in the atmosphere and burn it. So u can use the methane to generate electricity and in the end you have CO2 neutral electricity.
Processing it this way PREVENTS it from creating methane. That's why it so important to turn the piles, it's a different decomposition process when it has regular access to air (as opposed to sealed in a garbage bag).
I really wish they did this before pandemic started, cause no one is wearing mask then.
This was actually filmed in October of 2018, so it was before the pandemic! The elbow handshakes were still preferred for avoiding composty-hand contact :)
@@LocalMotives ohh that's nice .. thank you for letting me know 😊. Keep up the good work 👍
who said people form nyc were evil?
someone, probably
but not me
5:27 Machines don’t have families they have to leave, machines don’t complain about working 24/7 365, people need water food electricity, gas medicine health insurance dental insurance retirement benefits paid vacation smoke breaks family emergencies etc etc etc etc, machine needs electricity and one operator to do thousands of men worth of work. TLDR; we need to automate things that we can automate to free up time for other more important tasks that we cannot. Compost piles should be automated, no question.
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I wanna di this
no fossil fuels to make those solar panels either
I wish my town had compost options. But for now I continue to blend my scraps and compost right in the plant’s bucket. 💜🪴
Amazing!!