Thanks to you, we recovered nearly half a ton! So that happened. Pumpkins for the People 2016 was a resounding success thanks to our awesome members! Together we rescued more than 800 pounds of pumpkins this post-Halloween season. Thanks to our members, and our friends at Freshfarm, Martha’s Table, Maryland Food Bank, Miriam’s…
The (not-so) secret power of worm castings Compost Cab members have the unique opportunity to get finished compost and worm castings delivered to their door as part of our innovative soil give-back program. Our lucky members are happy to use the local, organic compost as a soil amendment in their garden beds. Members…
What We’re Reading This Weekend (8.26.16) Another summer weekend is coming up. Keep composting and check out the latest weekend reading list below: What does ‘easy to recycle’ mean? If you can’t throw it in the curbside recycling bin, is it really ‘easy?’ How to reduce food waste and summer…
A Mission: Small Business grant would allow us to accelerate our efforts to make Urban Composting Made Easy a reality in cities around the country. Our model directly connects food waste and food production in communities. There was never a question on the food production side of the equation: we…
Our core missions, making it easy for people to compost, and making it easier for urban agriculture to thrive, make deep integration into the community fundamental to what we do. Let’s start with our home market of Washington, DC. For starters, we collect food scraps from hundreds of homes each…
“What if we could take our garbage and grow food in it?” That’s the question I asked my 7-year old daughter and 6-year old son two years ago. Then I watched their eyes light up, and I knew we were onto something. Compost Cab is in the magic business. We…
This spring, we participated in a competition called Mission: Small Business, sponsored by Chase and Living Social. We made the first cut, but were not among the dozen companies chosen from among more than 70,000 entries. But just going through the application process proved to be an extremely valuable experience….
If you usually find yourself bursting down into that an occupied song and dance schedule every time your preferred song comes on the radio or your body’s Spotify playlist, then Musical. Ly could also be a service worthy of bringing in when you’re considering shooting your body’s functionality abilities and…