Have you been passed by a trailer of compost recently while riding your bike?
Compost for Brooklyn, founded in March 2010 in New York, is a group that transformed a vacant lot into a community composting project and a refuge for native plants and community members. Every week, neighbors come to the garden to visit, and drop off their veggie scraps and other organic waste. In the summer of 2011 alone they received over 8,600 pounds of food scraps from individuals, local schools and businesses from the area. The garden grows native plants that provide food and shelter for birds and insects. The group also does education about urban soil and the environment.
Compost for Brooklyn partnered with Ditmas Park CSA and built a CSA / Compost Bike Trailer, which uses a bicycle as a delivery and cargo carrying transportation device to both deliver CSA shares and to collect compost from CSA members.
Want to build one? A detailed set of free construction documents are available online. All materials used to make the bike trailer are easily and inexpensively accessible at local hardware stores.
Image Source:
www.instructables.com/id/CSA-and-Compost-Bicycle-Trailer/
Links:
http://compostforbrooklyn.org/about/
http://www.instructables.com/id/CSA-and-Compost-Bicycle-Trailer/