Even though the garden is closed due to Covid-19 and compost is unlikely to reopen anytime soon, here is a list of alternatives in NYC to drop off your food scraps.

• Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (about 15 min bike ride from the garden). Here is their google maps link.

• Astoria Pug - Astoria, Queens.

• These sites allow you to drop off your food scraps at a designated time and date, either for free or for a small fee.

  • Domino Park (Williamsburg)

  • North Brooklyn Compost Project (Greenpoint & Williamsburg)

  • BK Rot (Bushwick)

  • NurtureBK (Prospect Lefferts Garden & Flatbush)

  • Naturebased NY (Gowanus)

• Microhaulers: Microhaulers will pick up your food scraps at your home for a fee. They often rely on no- or low-emission vehicles for transportation, such as bikes.

  BK Rot is NYC’s first bike-powered composting service and doubles as an environmental training program for young people of color.

  • Reclaimed Organics (Manhattan- South of 86th Street)

  • BK Rot (Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bedford-Stuyvesant)

  • Vokashi (NYC + Westchester)

  • @AstoriaPug (Astoria)

  • BK Green Cart (North Central Brooklyn)

https://wp.nyu.edu/sustainability-nyusustainablog/2020/06/23/community-composting-options-in-new-york-city/