Black Gold

First Batch of Compost Will Be Distributed to Subscribers Early!

To show our immense appreciation for our loyal Orlando subscribers in the time of the COVID19 pandemic, we thought it was time to give back, and move everyone’s distribution date up early. Due the shutdown, more people are at home cooking and gardening, and it just makes sense. This doesn’t mean that our subscribers WON’T receive their regularly scheduled share 6-months from their subscription date either. Everyone who selected to “receive” their share of compost will still be delivered an additional 20 lbs 6 months from the date they hit “subscribe.” All we ask is to please empty the bucket, and put it back on your porch for us to collect during a normal pickup day, so we can keep reusing them. (Fun Fact: The 3.5-gallon compost buckets are old cream cheese icing buckets from Publix!)

Four hundred pounds of compost is going out this week and next to our subscribers who selected to receive their shares, and 400 pounds are going to Fleet Farming as a donation to their urban gardening efforts. A total of 800 pounds of O-Town Black Gold will be recycled into the community to improve our soil’s health! That’s right…Thanks to your banana peels, flower trimmings, and coffee grounds we have finished the composting process on our first batch of compost! We encourage you to use it in your vegetable gardens, as a potting mix, or just sprinkle it through your lawn to improve the seeding process.

Isn’t #CommunityComposting a beautiful thing?

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O-Town Compost Extends Its Reach Into College Park! (32804)!!!

“Let the food waste come.” - Charlie Pioli, Founder of O-Town Compost (with a battle-worn yet determined look on his face)

We’re excited to welcome the residents of zip code 32804 to our expanded service area! The College Park area is an example of how a number of people in the community came together to request food waste collection service, and O-Town Compost listened. It’s much more efficient, environmentally and economically, for O-Town Compost to run a route in an area with a greater client population.

We are hoping to be able to stretch farther in the next year, as we gain traction around Orlando. I have a feeling West Orlando (Winter Gardens, Windermere, Ocoee, etc) will be smelling O-Town Black Gold sometime during 2020.

Compost On Orlando!

College Park joins the community composting movement.

College Park joins the community composting movement.

Find Us at The Audubon Community Market!

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a booth at the Audubon Park Community Market on most Mondays! Our primary objective is to bring marketing awareness to our easy-to-use residential food waste pickup service, which takes Orlando’s food waste and converts it into rich compost for local farmers to grow more fresh food in.

At our booth, we will be soliciting two types of soil amendments for local area gardeners and urban farmers. This isn’t your granddad’s mushroom compost. Our two products are:

  • O-Town Black Gold - Our screened compost in 20 pound quantities for $10 apiece. This compost is high in organic matter and a direct result of people’s food waste being turned into a valuable humus to grow more food in

  • Revival Gardening’s Premium Worm Castings - A premium product that your plants will love! Sprinkle just a little on top of the soil around the plant, like a fertilizer, and watch it grow

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