It's Time For the Fall Compost Giveback! 🌱🌶🥕🥑

We’re doing the giveback a little differently this season.

O-Town Compost subscribers now have the option to go to the shop in their customer profile, and order their 20lbs share of O-Town Black Gold finished compost! Once ordered, you will be receiving it on the next regularly scheduled pickup date. Please don’t forget to put out the empty bucket after you’ve used your compost!

Subscribers have until 10/15 to order their free share of compost for the Fall until our next giveback in March 2022.

Follow the instructions below to order your share of free compost. Happy planting 😉

Step 1. Login to customer portal

Step 2. Select the ‘Shop’ tab on the menu at the top

Step 3. Order the free item titled “Compost Giveback - Fall 2021”

Compost Giveback - Just in Time For Spring Planting

It’s that time of year again when the dirty bearded hipster version of Santa Claus drops 20-pound buckets of O-Town Black Gold on each of his subscribers’ door steps. Just in time for people to get their Spring planting on!

This March giveback, we are set to return 2,300 pounds of compost to our amazing customers, and 1,760 pounds to Fleet Farming for those who opted to donate their share. In these last six months since our last giveback, we’ve turned close to 23 tons of food scraps into beautiful rich compost to improve Central Florida’s sandy soils.

It still boggles our mind how this…

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Slinging Buckets and Composting Orlando's Food Waste

O-Town Compost’s Charlie Pioli, gives you a look into Orlando’s community composting business with his big plans for the future. It’s never been so easy to recycle your food scraps into soil amendment while supporting the local food system at the same time! Join our movement!

How to Build a Worm Bin with O-Town Compost

Worm bins can be a simple yet effect way to recycle food scraps into premium plant fertilizer (worm castings), or just to keep a constant supply of fishing bait on hand. Regardless, watch our video to learn how to set up your own bin. Or, for between $50-80, we can come out and do it for you, and get you started with enough Florida Red Wigglers to get you going. Email us at info@o-towncompost.com.

As a plant fertilizer, worm castings “contain all the essential nutrients that plants need in addition to enriching the soil in which the plants are grown. Not only can this fertilizer be used on nearly any type of plant, it can also be used directly on plants without burning them and can even deter unwanted insects. Worm castings can be applied as top dressing, side dressing, or worked into the soil.” - Gardening Know How

Charlie Pioli of O-Town Compost shows us how to build a worm bin and shares some other useful tips for composting at home. If you live in the Orlando, FL are...

Now Accepting Meat, Fish, and Dairy

For those who wonder what we accept, remember this slogan:

“If it grows, it goes.”

Basically, if it grew out of the ground, we will accept it in our compost program. The website’s FAQ page does a pretty good job at answers any questions you may have, but always feel free to contact us at info@o-towncompost.com.

Things We Do Compost:

• Fruits and veggies

• Coffee grounds, filters, and tea bags

• Paper towels, napkins, and paper plates

• Egg shells

• Pasta and grains

• Meat and bones

• Cheese and other dairy products

Things We Do Not Compost:

• Fruit stickers (please remove from produce before composting)

• Pet waste including excrement or food

• Paper cups

• Kleenex or facial tissues

• Any type of plastics including most bio-degradable plastics

• Pesticide infused products for killing rodents or cockroaches

The law according to O-Town Compost.