Yesterday, while out on our last bucket slinging session of 2014, we reminisced about the year that was. It was by far our best season of bike-powered community composting ever. We have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s our Compost-y Thank You list in no particular order:
- To the 648 respondents of our science fair compost survey.
- To MLUI for inviting us to live-auction a pie at their Harvest@theCommons.
- To Carter Oosterhouse and Amy Smart for buying this pie.
- To the lovely Ladies of the Washington Street Hennery.
- To Kohl’s Cares for their scholarship.
- To Max, Amelia, William, Katie, Jack, Noah, Elise, Jameson. Traverse City’s other awesome bucket slingers..
- To our generous Sponsors.
- To Dirt Fest and NoMI Small Farm Conference for inviting us to present our Community Sustained Compost project.
- To Grand Traverse County RecycleSmart for honoring us with the 2013 “Take It Back” Recycler Of The Year.
- To TeeSeeTee for designing our Traverse City Dirt Tshirt.
- To So Delicious for their #140Difference grant.
- To BioBag for donating compostable bags and counter top compost pails to help classrooms de-landfill their snack scraps.
- To the 75 backers of our successful Kickstarter campaign.
- To the Friendly Garden Club of Traverse City for including us on their Garden Walk.
- To the now 150+ neighbors who have signed up for a bucket since we started in 2012.
- To our “pile sharers” for sharing their backyard pile with us and their neighbors. We’re currently at 28 and on the way towards our goal of 100.
- To the volunteer crew from AT&T for screening compost from Oryana’s Neighborhood Station on United Way’s Day Of Caring.
- To MYOI for slinging buckets and making compost with us. Youth-driven community compost!
- To the Grand Traverse Mycological Society for installing oyster mushrooms here at C’sC World HQ during the Radical Mycology Tour.
- To BioCycle Magazine for featuring us in their community compost article.
- To our Compost Friendly Businesses.
- To the 15 teachers at 10 different area schools for adopting our worms for the winter.
- To SEEDS/GT County Resource Recovery for loaning us their vermitron (a commercial scale worm bin) so that we could grow all these worms.
- To our always supportive Donors.
- To Brew, Cuppa Joe, and Morsels for supporting our #SaveTheCoffeeGrounds campaign.
- To Oryana for Traverse City’s first and very popular, Neighborhood Compost Station. Who’s next?
- To Chris Cano and Steven Kanner from Gainesville Compost and Kanner Karts for our 3 Big Boy (or Girl!) trailers.
Traverse City is a community full of radness. We’re thankful to be a part of it. Happy Thanksgiving and Compost On!
