Compost City ─ Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living

The comprehensive guide to individual- and community-scale composting in the city, using small-space living, limited backyard space, and urban density to your advantage.

Millions of city dwellers want the real dirt on composting. Whether they're staunch environmentalists or urbanites touting green as the new black, folks who compost are the latest force joining backyard chickeners, balcony beekeepers, and community gardeners in helping cities get down to earth.
Packed with research, expert testimonies, and a healthy dose of humor, Compost City gives us essential strategies on composting in small, shared, diversely crowded spaces. Whether you live in a fifth-floor walk-up or a high-rise apartment complex in the suburbs, you probably don't have much more plot of land to tinker with than the little square on the sidewalk. How are you supposed to be green minded when there's no green space in sight? How do you tap the social ecosystem full of like-minded individuals? If you don't garden, who wants your compost? And how do you transport it to them? Help!
From hobbyists in studio apartments to activists on rooftop farms, Compost City serves the millions of curious, adventurous, and/or eco-minded people who care about going green but feel limited by their limited space.

In 2009 REBECCA LOUIE became a certified NYC Master Composter and began a rich life playing with worms. Her company, The Compostess, offers New York City residents home compost consultations and delightful eco-training events for adults, children, and community and professional groups. Her work as The Compostess has been featured in Edible Manhattan, smithsonianmag.com, and more. Both a city girl and a country girl, Rebecca splits her time between her native Queens and the Catskills. Her fiction has appeared in Alimentum: The Literature of Food.