Starting a Community Garden Booklet

It's that time of year to start planning for your garden!  We've complied all the information you could ever need, whether this is your first time gardening or you want to make the most of your existing garden.  Click here to view the booklet.

Gardening in Syracuse Workshop a Big Success

This past Saturday, February 13th, 125 of you attended the Gardening in Syracuse Workshop hosted by Canopy and Syracuse Grows!  Presentations included Managing Soil Physical Conditions, Soil Toxicity and the Health Risks and Successful Vegetable Gardening.

Click here to view the soil toxicity handout and here for the Dirt on your Dirt presentation.

For more information on soil quality, texture and how they can affect your garden, visit our resources page and click on "Soil Health."

NOFA-NY List of Seed Sources

Attention Gardeners! 

Planting season is fast approaching- now's the time to start thinking about seed preparation and acquisition. 

Click here to view NOFA-NY's extensive list of seed sources across the country. 

OCRRA Now Producing Reusable Food Waste Compost

News 10 Now, January 31, 2010 by Terry Ettinger

In Onondaga County, about 13-14% of the waste stream (both commercial and municipal) is food waste; that's about 45,000 tons.  Currently, OCRRA is composting 1,000 cubic yards of resuable compost per year from food waste, mitigating the amount of food in landfills that emit harmful greenhouse gases as they decompose.  By 2015, OCRRA hopes to produce over 10,000 tons of commercially generated food waste.  The compost is safe to use after only 30-45 days thanks to generators that pump heat through pipes to the compost piles so the internal temperature reaches 155 degrees.

Click here to read the full news story and watch the video.