Volunteer at the Compost Compound!

The Conservancy’s Sustainability team invites you to support us with gardening work and landscape maintenance at the 95th Street Compost Compound.

The compost that is currently in progress at our site is created right here in Riverside Park! We utilize machinery for the composting work, and when the compost is ready it will be applied to soil in the Park, thus retaining nutrients from the debris that enters the site and ‘closing the loop’.

For existing volunteers: please sign up through the Grassroots Volunteer Portal. Instructions for how to get to the Compound are on the portal.

For new volunteers: please email [email protected] for information about how to get involved.

About the 95th Street Compost Compound

Our state-of-the-art Compost Compound is the processing center for debris and materials produced in the process of maintaining Riverside Park’s landscape. Conservancy staff use the Compost Compound to drop off woody debris, leaves, weeds, and invasive plants that they have removed from other areas of the Park. We then process these materials on-site by composting. The compost is then incorporated back into the Park’s soil. By retaining all of the weeds, twigs, and branches and composting them, we are  ‘closing the loop.’ The Compost Compound successfully diverts hundreds of cubic yards of plant material from ending up in a landfill and reduces the need for carting – thereby reducing emissions involved in transporting the material off site.