Urban Community Composting with the Denver Compost Collective

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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Home & Garden, Science, Nature, Leisure, Education, How To

5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by the Denver Compost Collective to discuss the concept of urban composting and utilizing compost as a tool for building community. How can we leverage our mutual understanding of the importance of soil health and local, healthy food to build inroads with our neighbors? And more importantly, how can their model be replicated across urban spaces globally? The Denver Compost Collective provides a weekly compost collection service for apartment dwellers. Their community farm partners regularly receive their compost and add it to their soils, which supports the soil greatly: improving its structure, adding fertility for crops, retaining water, and reintroducing critically important microbes back into the earth. This supports the farm’s efforts to grow healthy, natural food for their communities right in Denver. Check out the Denver Compost Collective on Instagram (@DenverCompostCollective) & Facebook, and visit their website for more information: http://www.denvercompostcollective.com Support this podcast by visiting www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac or sign up for our newsletter at www.poorproles.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Porpo's Almanac.
0:17.7	This is Andy, and today we are following up last week's episode on the Fundamentals of
0:21.8	Compost to dig deeper into the bigger framework of compost with the folks over at the Denver
0:27.0	Compost Collective. The Denver Compost Collective provides a weekly compost collection service
0:32.5	for apartment dwellers in the city of Denver, but it's about much more than saving organic matter from the
0:39.5	landfills. The collective is framed in building community and working towards healthy, local
0:45.0	food systems. The community farm partners regularly receive compost directly from the Denver
0:51.3	Compost Collective, supporting the farm's efforts to grow local, healthy,
0:55.9	natural foods right in their communities. This model is unique and one that could be replicated
1:01.8	in many cities across the country, and that's what this conversation is about. How do we take
1:07.2	something as simple as compost to build community? And much like the fungi that feed the plants,
1:13.2	how can compost help us build roots that help prepare us for a future that will require us to be more resilient?
1:21.2	Take a listen to this episode.
1:23.3	I'm sure you'll be inspired.
1:25.0	And if you'd like to get involved with the Denver Compost Collective, their information
1:28.9	is in the show notes.
1:35.0	Hey, guys, thanks so much for joining us.
1:37.5	This will be a fun interview because I'm joined by the whole team over at the Denver Compost
1:42.2	Collective.
1:43.3	Did I say that right?
1:43.8	Was Denver Compost Collective? Correct. It that right? Was Denver Compost Collective?
1:45.0	Correct.
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