Greetings composting households! We are so excited to welcome you to the 2023 Backyard Compost Challenge. Over the course of this 10-week challenge you’ll get to know your composting cohort and how to best compost for your home. In this first blog post you’ll also get to know a bit about us and last year’s Compost Champions, who have some …

Thank you to those who participated in Sunday’s SLOP TALK meet-up for youth compost leaders! 79% of our participating households include children, and we’ve heard from many of you that these kids are often the ones taking the lead on family composting initiatives.

Ten whole weeks of collecting and weighing scraps, reporting data, filling up compost bins, and helping keep food out of the Rockbridge landfill.

A grant from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has enabled Boxerwood to install and maintain two large-volume, high-rate Earth Cube composters at Natural Bridge Elementary School (NBES).

Thank you to those who participated in Sunday’s SLOP TALK meet-up for youth compost leaders! 79% of our participating households include children, and we’ve heard from many of you that these kids are often the ones taking the lead on family composting initiatives.

What’s the key to having fun and success with your composting? Keeping those kitchen chefs happy — and we don’t mean the ones in your house. There’s a lot of life happening in your Earth Machine. This week we’re sharing words of wisdom from local compost guru and guest blogger, Phyllis Fevrier.

Compost is fantastic for enriching soil, but it generates other possibilities too – like heating houses. Crazy, right? This week we’re sharing some believe-it-or not accounts of compost-as-technology.

We’ve reached the halfway point! To commemorate this momentous occasion I reached out to some of the households with the greatest and least amount of total diverted food scraps. How do factors like household size or dietary preference influence the amount of scraps headed to the compost each week? Well, here’s the inside scoop!

In last week’s blog post we provided some links to our composting and landfill FAQs, as well as compost expert

we are completing Week #3 of the Backyard Compost Challenge and going strong. We run the gamut from 0 lbs to nearly 30 lbs of food waste per household diverted each week.