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A community-powered compost pick-up program in Providence, RI! Our crew will pick up your compost biweekly and bring it to our community garden.

You can also sign up to drop off your food scraps at one of our community drop off sites.

10/04/2023

So very excited about this!

03/31/2023

You can support Harvest Cycle Compost by donating this weekend through to Groundwork Rhode Island!

https://www.401gives.org/organizations/groundwork-rhode-island

I’m ready to support Groundwork Rhode Island on March 31, 2023 during 401Gives. Learn more about Groundwork Rhode Island and all the other organizations participating in 401Gives.

02/01/2023

We officially broke ground last month on the upcoming West End Compost Hub! This site will not only serve as a hub for compost processing and distribution, but also a gathering place for environmental justice and urban stewardship education.

Many thanks to Sky Sabin Productions LLC for this amazing video. This project was made possible by 11th Hour Racing and many others! Stay tuned for more updates.

01/18/2023

On a related note Groundwork Rhode Island is hiring for our urban tree program - share widely! https://groundworkri.org/urban-tree-program-manager/

GWRI is seeking a new, full-time Urban Tree Program Manager to join our team. This position is currently funded through a U.S. Forest Service Landscape Scale Restoration Grant for two years. We hope to keep the position indefinitely with future fundraising. The Urban Tree Program Manager will be res...

11/07/2022

We had so much fun smashing pumpkins and making compost with community members of all ages at the Washington Park Library last week! Can't wait to see how the compost is doing and give it a turn with the PVD Young Makers.

10/19/2022

We love partnering with the Community Libraries of Providence! You can now drop off food scraps at the Wanskuck Library, as well as Mt. Pleasant Community Library, Washington Park Library, and —coming soon— Rochambeau Library!

Sign up at http://harvestcycle.org/

Latest updates and statistic charts

10/17/2022

We'll be tabling at PUBLIC's Gather in the Garden event on Thursday, October 20, 2022 from 5:30-9:00. We'll be offering the first month free for anyone who signs up for a subscription at the event, so come and bring your friends! You can learn more and get tickets at the PUBLIC's page below.

10/17/2022

This is the first of our new quarterly newsletter series! Here you will find all of the new projects Harvest Cycle is working on, updated diversion metrics, volunteer opportunities and much more.

10/03/2022

We're hiring a bike hauler! Come join our awesome team of compost enthusiasts. Applications are due Thursday, 10/6 at 8pm.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQ4Pu26CXdeZkAJDYN8_hmNktROIozteGPaSYwlWtQHTDqsQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

09/16/2022

New Drop-Off Alert! To continue our effort to create access to more food scrap drop-off sites, we have launched our Wanskuck Library site. Sponsored in part by Bootstrap Compost, built by Building Futures, and hosted by the Community Libraries of Providence: thank you to our community partners for dedicating the time and materials to make this happen. 💚💚💚

09/07/2022

¡Ayúdenos a planificar el futuro de Providence! 🗣️🏙️

La semana pasada lanzamos una encuesta comunitaria para informar el proceso de actualización del Plan Integral.

¡Queremos entender mejor lo que aprecia de nuestra Ciudad y lo que quiere ver mejorado! Además, ¿cómo le gustaría participar en este proceso? 🤔

Comparta su perspectiva ahora en: surveymonkey.com/r/PVDCompPlan

We have a volunteer event coming up this weekend! If you are interested in participating, please email us at tmyles@grou...

08/15/2022

We have a volunteer event coming up this weekend! If you are interested in participating, please email us at [email protected].

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West End Compost Hub update! Over the past month, the site of the future West End Compost Hub has undergone environmental remediation. The site, which is leased to us by West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation, was a brownfield, and the soil was contaminated with lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH). Before we could build the compost hub, we needed to cleanup this site, which has been vacant for decades and had various industrial uses before that, contributing to the contamination. We secured funding from the RI Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank to do this clean up, and after years of planning, the clean up is finally complete! The remediation contractors started by removing trash and small vegetation from the site. They then ripped up and removed the old asphalt. Most of the hazardous contamination was in the northwest corner of the site, so they dig that up. There were higher levels of leachable lead in that section of soil than initially anticipated, so they mixed that soil with a binding agent to stabilize the lead before moving it to a disposal facility. Quite a bit of urban fill -- brick, cement, wood, metal, etc. -- was found as they dug, and it was disposed of along with the contaminated soil and asphalt. A total of approximately 600 cubic yards of soil was removed from the site. The contractors then leveled the ground, and it is now a ready and waiting blank slate for composting infrastructure. Part of the remediation includes a cap, which will be installed when the rest of the construction happens. We are currently putting the final finishing touches on the designs for the compost hub, and will put the project out to bid in the next few weeks. If all goes according to plan, construction will begin in the spring!

West End Compost Hub update!

We officially broke ground last month on the upcoming West End Compost Hub! This site will not only serve as a hub for compost processing and distribution, but also a gathering place for environmental justice and urban stewardship education. Many thanks to Sky Sabin Productions LLC for this amazing video. This project was made possible by 11th Hour Racing and many others! Stay tuned for more updates.