Star City Compost

28/10/2024

24/10/2024

In total, The Harvest Collective and Star City Compost led the green team in diverting 120 Lbs of aluminum, 800 lbs of cardboard and plastic recycling and 500 lbs of compostable material from Roanoke GO Outside Festival this past weekend.

We wish a big thank you to all the people who helped out on green team this past weekend. We’ve been doing this work for 6 straight go fest.

We are available to help divert waste from other festivals and large gatherings if you are interested in the service.

10/10/2024

Star City Compost and Hollins University have kept 14 tons of food waste out of the landfill!

Between March 18 and September 19, 2024, Hollins University has recycled 28,637.6 pounds (14.0 metric tons) of food scraps with Star City Compost, resulting in a net decrease in GHG emissions of 56.51 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MTCO 2eq ), equal to the consumption of 6,386 gallons of gasoline.

We’re grateful to the Hollins University, Meriwether Godsey and the staff there who have helped in this effort!

19/09/2024

We are proud to announce the first restaurant in Roanoke who is choosing to sort and compost their food waste with Star City Compost. Everyone go out and support who are proving themselves to be great stewards of our ecological resources.

16/09/2024

The art mural on our food waste drop-off shed at the Local Environmental Agriculture Project - LEAP Hub is complete. The art was done by Heather Lynn Reynolds. We’re grateful to help bring some beauty to the world by partnering with talented artists.

14/09/2024

We’ve got Star City Compost T-Shirts! We’re offering a free t-shirt to anyone who promotes our business and gets one sign-up for curbside service or 2 sign-ups for drop-off service. Here’s Frances with her free T-Shirt after getting her mom to sign up.

You can also just buy a shirt for $20 through this link and I’ll deliver or mail it to you:

https://swipesimple.com/links/lnk_24f8e8278d6e317b7b03e0feb9d10012

12/09/2024

Davey will be teaching a compost workshop this evening at the Carilion Morningside Urban Farm - 907 Morgan Ave SE - from 6:45-7:30 pm. come at 6 for yoga with Emilee Hall.

Have a great day!

03/09/2024

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http://gardenvarietyharvests.com/tickets

30/08/2024

Some photos of our food waste processing. 😉

23/08/2024

Hi folks- click to learn some important lessons about plastics in our lives and how we all should be supporting laws that create extended producer responsibility. Thanks for your work Sustainable Roanoke!

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Sustainable Roanoke is a grassroots environmental group with a mission to educate, inspire, and empower the community to achieve a sustainable lifestyle by sharing knowledge, increasing awareness, pooling resources, and promoting social equity. Since its […]

19/08/2024

Working in compost stinks. From freelance journalist Ralph Berrier Jr., learn about Star City Compost, a new company that takes food waste from Roanoke residents and businesses and converts it into clean compost that will soon be available for sale.

Story link in comments. Free to read.

16/08/2024

We got jokes.

14/08/2024

There was a great article written about us in the Roanoke Rambler today. Give it a read and learn a little more about our company.

If you haven’t yet, sign up for service or suggest us to friends. Food waste shouldn’t be thrown away! It should be turned into compost for local farmers and gardeners.

24/07/2024

We had Blue Ridge PBS out today to film an educational video about compost and decomposers today. We also got Star City Compost T-shirts in stock today. And I met a praying mantis friend.

10/07/2024

We had another great visit with ’s Explorer’s camp. Today we learned about harvesting plant medicine from the garden. Our superstar kids were introduced to the superstar plants calendula, blue vervain, chamomile, passionflower, and yarrow. I’m grateful to introduce the next generation to some of these great plant medicines.

09/07/2024

We’ve got a new gate over our rain garden. Michael special made the sunrise over the gate with an arch from an Osage orange branch.

04/07/2024

Check out the new Star City Compost and Harvest collective newsletter.

Star City Compost and The Harvest Collective are two businesses working under the same leadership to provide opportunities for people to garner a more direct relationship with our local ecology. The intention is to build cooperatively owned structures that provide food, fight climate change, and enh...

03/07/2024

It is my genuine belief that access to work on land to grow food and create medicine is a human right. Over the course of the past 5 centuries, we have seen a barbaric stealing of this right away from people worldwide. Before mass industrialization and urbanization, if you were to ask any person from any culture, worldwide, they would agree that access to land is synonymous with access to create your own food, livelihood, and hack out an existence for your family. Still many people live this way across our globe and I honor their humility as a paramount solution to climate change and privatization of critical resources.

This awareness, combined with the pressing need to do something besides begging the government for action, led to the creation of The Harvest Collective. Over the course of my many years pursuing this dream it has always been community centered and ecologically driven. My desire is to create a container for people to enter into so that we can, together, can design, play, work, and collaborate in creating ecological resources controlled by the community who put the work in. Through these efforts, we are generating a culture resilient to a potential collapse due to political instability, inflation, corporate greed, climate change, and/or mass human migrations from other unstable regions. Regardless of whether you believe a collapse is imminent or not, taking the steps to humble ourselves to the earth and potential to work in community makes us healthier, safer, and happier.

In a society predicated on transactional and monetized relationships, pharmaceutical companies, energy companies, big banks, and the politicians beholden to them hold more influence over your beliefs than the very nature of your being in relation to your natural environment. It is clear to me that we need to figure out how ecological abundance can be shared by the general community without making money the barrier to entry nor the complete basis of our exchange. I truly believe that becoming “free” requires a release of these paradigms and a rebirth into the appreciation of all the natural world has to offer if we tend properly to it.

I do not believe we are capable of transcending money, nor the structures of a society meant to benefit the most wealthy. The Harvest Collective is a container within general society that can support itself financially, so that more people in our community can garner access to work with land and to enjoy the literal fruits of their labor without money being a barrier to entry.

With 3 ½ more years left on a lease on hand, many plants and planting areas already established, a burgeoning business to support our access to land in Star City Compost, and a number of years experience spent learning lessons organizing this type of community, The Harvest Collective is poised to deliver on this promise. We have created and drafted a system of grassroots democratic governance through our LLC operating agreement. With time put in, you too have access to propose projects and help steer the ship of this community should you desire to. We do not exist to force ideas through the power of bureaucracy, but rather to empower and embolden all of our creativity to create more abundance, fertility, and nourishment from the land.

Come learn more about how you can be involved in our organization, as well as learn about the timebank for food and plant medicine program we are going to open up this fall, at our upcoming social and quarterly meeting on July 14, 2- 6:30 PM at the compost facility property - 2051 Blue Hills Dr NE.