Making Compost through Collaboration

With the help of Thomas McQuillan of Baldor Specialty Foods and Sung and Paul from the Bronx Green-Up's Grow Greens class, I was able to fill up a compost bin with 3 huge pails of Baldor's watermelon and cantaloupe rind at the Hunts Point Park and Recreation Center.  Sung and Paul mixed in leave and dead branches to give us an ideal ratio of carbon and nitrogen materials. Now it is up to the microorganisms to break the mixture down into a rich humus material for the plants.  Great team effort!

Baldor's Specialty Food Delivering Buckets of Compost Material

Thomas McQuillan of SparCs - Division of Baldor Specialty Foods

Close-up of Rinds for Compost Bin

Adding Green Nitrogen Rich Material to Bin

Rinds with Leaves

 Empty Buckets

Watermelon Rinds on Top of Leaves

Paul is mixing  leaves, branches, and rinds together

Sung is cutting down the rind into little pieces