Compost
BOKASHI COMPOST
P.E.A.C.E. COMMUNITY GARDEN BOKASHI COMPOST EXCHANGE PROGRAM....A TRANSFORMATIVE COMMUNITY ACTION PROPOSAL.
P.E.A.C.E. Community Garden Bokashi Compost Exchange Programʼs goal is to create a collaboration of garden community and earth.
A way to reduce our urban waste and recycle this waste into vibrant soil for our food and flower gardens.
Our aim is to educate the community through demonstrations and workshops, encourage residents and local shop owners to participate in Bokashi Composting, and finally utilize the compost in local gardens, yards, city parks, as well as to bio-remediate existing toxic sites in and around Jersey City.
This is a transformative community action resulting in an exquisitely healthy community, land, and food.
The countless number of community, private, and park gardens that are emerging are a sign that the citizens of Jersey City are earnest about the importance of locally grown food and brilliant flower and rain gardens.
What makes gardens glow is fertile and nutritious soil. Compost provides these features by changing and renewing the existing make up into a healthier composition.
The P.E.A.C.E. Garden Bokashi Compost Exchange initiative has been acknowledged by the EPA as a demonstration site. Sustainable Jersey City, Big Sky Project(P.E.A.C.E. Garden), St. Paulʼs, and mentorship from the great Shig Matsukawa at El Sol Brillante Garden, are working together towards creating efficient waste reduction in the Jersey City community.
The Bokashi Compost system is escalating as the compost system of choice for urban areas. Bokashi system allows a household to compost not only vegetable and fruit waste but also bones, oils, and any food waste!
This can be done inside the home. With all of the correct applications the system does not have any smell and detracts rodents.
Currently, P.E.A.C.E. Community Garden uses Bokashi Compost to enrich and nourish the soil for the best quality food! The soil must be alive and healthy to grow exquisite food. When we eat food grown with such soil integrity... we create exquisite health.
The P.E.A.C.E. Garden Compost Exchange allows fellow community members who practice Bokashi style compost to drop off their compost for the P.E.A.C.E. Garden to utilize in exchange for more empty buckets and the starter mix to continue composting.
Last 2015 season, we received over 30 buckets of compost from the community. This abundance of compost happily fed the P.E.A.C.E. Garden soil as well as the new Historic Harsimus Cemetary garden.
The Exchange Program currently has over a dozen participants and is growing.
For more details and information about The Bokashi compost system please visit www.recyclefoodwaste.org
Please contact Pricilla Renta at stpauljerseycity@gmail.com or the Church Phone number 201-963-5518 for more info on how to join the Bokashi Compost Exchange Program at P.E.A.C.E.
The Power of a Garden Community
Coming soon! Stay tuned for thoughts on the power of a garden community!
How can a community garden change lives and quite possibly the world?
How can every community have the capability to grow, create peace, and empower themselves through community gardening?
Stay tuned!!!!!
The Sharing Place Food Pantry
Read on for more information about our new proposal currently in the works.......
THE SHARING PLACE FOOD PANTRY AT ST. PAUL'S & P.E.A.C.E. COMMUNITY GARDEN: Healthy Gardening
Initiative.....
The Sharing Place is best known for distributing food to hundreds of households the last two Saturday mornings of each month.
They distribute more than 7 tons of food each month. They also partner with a number of organizations and agencies, serving as a bridge to a continuum of human services, and human aspirations.
The Sharing Place at St Paul's Lutheran Church celebrates the partnership with the P.E.A.C.E. Garden. P.E.A.C.E. Garden donates all excess harvest to the Sharing Place every last Saturday of the month during the growing season.
Mindful of the full-cycle of food justice, from garden to table, and sustainability of human ecology,the garden gleanings directly benefit many of the Sharing Place participants.
P.E.A.C.E. Garden serves as an inspiration for many more who want to connect with gardening--either at their homes, or connecting with others at community gardens.
The Sharing Place and P.E.A.C.E. Community Garden are currently proposing, The Healthy Garden Initiative, a new collaboration to provide garden starter kits to support and educate the needy on how to self-sufficiently grow their own healthy food.
This collaboration and initiative would eventually build strong, educated, self-sufficient, and sustainable communities.
To discuss ways and help promote access-to-healthy-gardening initiative.
Contact Jim Nelson JimNelson.SharingPlace@gmail.com
or Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch
For more information on The Sharing Place go to: www.sharingplacejc.org
Our Programs
Check out little Stanley to the left working hard in the garden! P.E.A.C.E. Garden reaches out to a diverse community. Check out the programs and upcoming programs below!