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Community composting in Kensington, Melbourne. Messgage us to get involved!

Our Compost Hubs provide places for residents to compost organic food & garden scraps to support local gardening and food growing.

09/11/2024

Looking forward to a Spring garden refresh with the Davis Street Community Garden volunteers this afternoon! Lots of life in the garden, plants to harvest and replace, and a load of well-matured community compost ready to turn into the soil…

Sustainability Victoria City of Melbourne Cultivating Community Kensington Neighbourhood House City Compost Network

06/11/2024

Go support this amazing community garden (and pick up something nice for a present - even if it’s just a present for you!)

Kensington Stockyard Food Garden Xmas Sale
Sunday 1 December 10am to 12pm
Potted plants, vegetable seedlings, produce, local craft
Come and support our volunteer members to celebrate National Community Garden Day and our sixth year of feeding our community.
Enter the historic Newmarket Stockyards from Serong or Bluestone Sts Kensington
Cash or card accepted

03/11/2024

Purple Kohlrabi picking day at Kensington Town Hall Compost! We put down a late crop of kohlrabis and decided today was the day. dressed in matching harvest colours for the grand occasion…

03/11/2024

Purple Kohlrabi picking day at Kensington Town Hall Compost! We put down a late crop of kohlrabis and decided today was the day. dressed in matching harvest colours for the grand occasion…

27/10/2024

Our third weekly harvest of broad beans and these plants are still going strong. We planted out 3 foodwall tubs and they are super productive!

Sustainability Victoria City of Melbourne Kensington Neighbourhood House City Compost Network Cultivating Community Costa Georgiadis Official

19/10/2024

We are growing a garden for wildlife behind Kensington Town Hall - the garden already attracts butterflies, lacewings, hoverflies, geckos, and more! Thanks to TreeProject (www.treeproject.org.au) for donating a range of locally indigenous plant species to add to our habitat space, including:
- Acacias
- Banksias
- Native Indigo
- Kangaroo Apples

This will be our last Wildlife Gardening planting session for 2024 before it gets too hot to plant out new seedlings. All welcome to come along... you are also free to take seedlings for your own wildlife-friendly plantings at home! We can help you choose a suitable plant for you situation.

Join us for mulching, weeding, preparing soil, propagating and planting native vegetation, and creating a suitable habitat to attract and support beneficial species: https://www.facebook.com/share/1AYmBxXXRM/

Please bring your own gardening gloves, drink bottle, and wear comfortable clothing for sun and/or rain protection.

Sustainability Victoria City of Melbourne Cultivating Community Kensington Neighbourhood House City Compost Network

17/10/2024

The sensory garden group at Kensington Neighborhood Centre say: “Thanks Kensington Compost Hub for the compost that's getting our lettuce seedlings off to a good start.”

Our absolute pleasure to support local gardeners and growers!

Sustainability Victoria City of Melbourne Cultivating Community Kensington Neighbourhood House City Compost Network

06/10/2024

Delivering finished community compost to our “Stationeers” - volunteers who plant and maintain green spaces around Kensington Station for the benefit of everyone in the neighbourhood. Great to collaborate with such a welcoming and inclusive group of people improving our common spaces

Sustainability Victoria City of Melbourne Kensington Neighbourhood House City Compost Network

12/09/2024

This is the way

The Melbourne-based architects whose focus on sustainability and landscape continuity means they hope to never produce a new building.

02/09/2024

Busy day yesterday at our monthly Wildlife Gardening Working Bee - mulching and planting and coffee in the Spring sunshine.

We have put out a variety of indigenous habitat plants: grasses, ground covers, and climbing plants along the fence line. Great work and massive thanks to our community volunteers for working to make a difference, and to create habitat for biodiversity in our urban environment!

12/08/2024

21/07/2024

The ancestors of kangaroos once lived in the trees – but their evolutionary history is murky. Here’s everything we know so far.

21/07/2024

A lovely mild Winter’s morning to enjoy . Nice change after the cold rain and gusty wind… thankfully nothing appears to have blown away yesterday! We have finished compost batches to screen, and new batches to turn.

LOcal Community Compost ALliance (LOCCAL) Sustainability Victoria City of Melbourne Kensington Neighbourhood House City Compost Network Cultivating Community Costa Georgiadis Official

08/07/2024

Never say something cannot be done

Who would have thought that almost any innovation was possible, back in the day?

This is Camden. If they can do it, so can your town

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Rear, Kensington Town Hall, 30-34 Bellair Street
Melbourne, VIC
3031

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Some gratuitous slowmo #compost amendments today for #ICAW2024 #30DayCompostContentChallenge Mixed food and garden waste has been contributed by community composters - adding fine browns to ensure a good C:N ratio (just going by feel), and a splash of water to ensure good moisture levels to promote active microbial colonisation #KensingtonCompost #CommunityComposting #EarthDayEveryDay @loccal_aus that’s hot

Some of the compost we make can go straight onto soil as nutrient-enriched mulch, but for growing in containers and raised beds, a lot the larger pieces of wood or bark left over from hot composting are too chunky. Especially important when raising seeds... We have rigged up a dedicated screening bay designed to sift out large stuff to send it back through the composting process. The screen is portable and also can used on any other crate or even a ute bed if needed. We have tried ultra-fine 11mm mesh in the past, which is very time consuming to push a full cubic metre of compost through. Using a manual process, 20mm apertures seem like about the right balance for quick sieving and getting a reasonable grade of medium for planting in. This year will be setting up a screening trommel to try and speed the process up even more! #ICAW2024 #compost #naturesClimateChampion #Kensington3031 #KensingtonVic #KensingtonCompost #CommunityComposting #EarthDayEveryDay #CircularEconomy #betterSoilBetterLifeBetterFuture #30DayCompostContentChallenge Soil Sisters Singleton LOcal Community Compost ALliance (LOCCAL) City Compost Network City of Melbourne International Compost Awareness Week

Screening a batch of finished compost at Kensington Town Hall Compost Hub

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Kensington Closed Loop Project

The Compost Hub consists of compost bays, located at the back of the Kensington Town Hall building. Along with the Stockyard Community Garden and through the support of the community, we seek to create a closed-loop food system.

The City of Melbourne has provided a compost hub in response to community demand to process organic waste locally and thus reduce the amount of household food waste going into landfill.

Many residents do not compost at home due to a lack of space, lack of skills and/or living in medium to high density housing without access to home gardens. Compost bays have been installed at the back of the Kensington Town Hall to be easily accessible to the wider community 24/7.

Other benefits include: decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and producing a product containing valuable nutrients for vegetable plots and plant growth for residential or community gardens.