Compost Collective Leeds is at it again, spinning straw into gold— or rather, food scraps into fertile soil!

Compost Collective Leeds, set up with communities, is a city-wide community composting project that is transforming the way communities work together to put food waste to good use. With the support of FoodWise Leeds, there are now 8 thriving community composting schemes city-wide and a few more sprouting up soon! Here’s more about the latest successes.

Compost Collective Hunslet & Riverside is a community composting scheme have filled their first compost bin, and are thrilled to be starting their second. You can join the scheme if you live locally by contacting Friends of Hunslet Moor on their facebook group. Meanwhile, Compost Collective Gipton, based at the Old Fire Station in Gipton, are enjoying their very first batch of soil. This is really exciting as their is a community garden and lots of use for free good quality soil.

The two newest sites are at Feel Good Factor in Chapeltown and and Drury Fields in Horsforth and both are remarkable.

You can read more about the successes of community composting in Horsforth by clicking this link or check out this little film about Horsforth Compost Collective building a compost bin by clicking this link. Or watch this film about Feel Good Factor’s Compost Collective Chapeltown in this link.

If you would like support to set up a community composting scheme, or are interested in joining one of the already thriving schemes, we can fit you in!

If you’d like to dig deep and donate towards the costs of future compost schemes, you can support us by donating to our Just Giving / Pay-It-Forward Campaign, or get in touch with Annie Whitehead for more details: annie.whitehead@zestleeds.org.uk/

Or why not speak to us in person?

Join us Sunday 24 November 1-4 pm at Killingbeck Community Orchard on Collin Road LS13 6AQ or pop along to Feel Good Factor LS7 4BP on Louis Street in Chapeltown Wednesday 27 November 11.30am.

🌱 Thanks for reading! We’ll leave you with a picture of the newest compost collective member and their rather fabulous canine friends.