Community Compost

04/09/2026

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11/04/2025

Check it out!

At the Ashland Growers Market today! Promoting signups for winter compost service and these important upcoming events! NOV 13, sips for Sustainability for SOCAN! Nov 15th, Benefit concert to raise $$ for ACCESS! Then Nov 16th for a movie event: "The Eternal Song"!
Check out the Southern Oregon Food Solutions website on the Events page.

09/19/2025

This coming Wednesday SEPTEMBER 24TH at Ashland Library. See you there!

09/02/2025

It's compost drop-off day at the Tuesday Rogue Valley Growers & Crafters Market! 🍐

Swing by ScienceWorks every Tuesday between 8:30am and 1:30pm and bring your food scraps to fill the bins.

These “black gold” scraps are donated to local farms where they're used to enrich the soil. It’s good for the climate, too! When food waste is dumped in landfills and sealed off from oxygen, methane, aka “natural gas” is created.

Let’s do our part to keep food scraps out of the garbage!

A special thanks to:
🌟 Ashland Food Co-op for sponsoring

🌟 Community Compost for delivering scraps to farms

🌟 Flavia Franco of Southern Oregon Food Solutions for greeting people and tending to the bins

🌟 ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum for hosting the Growers Market

🌟 The Rogue Valley Growers Market for organizing this wonderful community gathering!!!

08/16/2025

Please check out this article. Food waste is really an important issue. And check out the take aways that I think are important. I like that a guy who has done enough research on the issue to write a 300 page book can say: “It does give me a lot of comfort that incredibly smart people are working on this, it’s hard to not be optimistic when you see people dedicating their lives to fixing these problems,” Grunwald said.

Take Aways:
This article is thought provoking. What solutions resonated with me? Two things: that farmers figure out how to grow more food on smaller spaces. Not factory farm models, but lessons taken from Japan, where they make the most of the acres they have. To do that, they need very rich soil, not more chemicals. So yes, composting can play a big role. The other thing is we need to waste less food, and to do that we need more public engagement and public awareness. If we hit obstacles on reducing dependence on fossil fuels, we can still make progress in the fight against climate change if we focus on food.

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth

04/11/2025

04/10/2025

Another day of National Food Waste Prevention Week and another little something to learn!

Food Waste Prevention Week is in full swing and y’all are rocking it! 🎸 Before tossing that past-date food, baby formula excluded, trust your senses—smell, look, and taste to see if it’s still good. Confused by date labels? You might be throwing out perfectly good food! Click the link in our bio to learn more. Let’s keep the rhythm going and reduce food waste together!

04/09/2025

This is a good time to focus on how food is managed in our households.

I planned my dinner menu with The Guest-imator. Estimate how much food you need https://savethefood.com/guestimator

04/09/2025

This is a good time to focus on how food is managed in the household!

I planned my dinner menu with The Guest-imator. Estimate how much food you need https://savethefood.com/guestimator

04/08/2025