Our recipe
Thanks to the ~85 organisations and ~50 residents around Pōneke who have signed up to our food scrap collection/drop-off services, we end up with heaps of compost to go around! Half of our compost we donate to local community gardens, marae and schools. The other half we sell to home gardeners or use on our urban farm in Newtown to grow kai.
Our compost is made with a balanced mixture of food scraps, donated arborist mulch and coffee chaff. We minimise potential for contamination by persistent chemicals and microplastics by not accepting or composting any ‘compostable plastic’ products which can leak residues, and by not accepting grass clippings which may be contaminated with agrochemicals.
Over a 4 to 6 month process, our team of staff and volunteers manually turn your food scraps into beautiful biodiverse compost that is teaming with beneficial bacteria, fungi and creepy crawlies. We then bag up our compost in reused grain bags courtesy of the Garage Project (so no new plastic!) which can be returned to us for further reuse.
As an additional safeguard, we have recently started testing our compost and consulting with soil biology experts to ensure we produce high quality compost that has optimal levels of carbon and nitrogen, micro-nutrients, and a balanced microbiome. We think our compost is the best on the block!
Buy our compost
Thanks for your interest in purchasing some of our living compost.
Please fill in our compost order request form below to tell us your preferred collection time, compost amount and any other requirements. Then we'll email back to confirm your order and collection and provide payment instructions (by bank transfer).
30% discount for subscribers to our food scrap collection/drop-off service.
Important things to note:
Pick up from Hospital Rd involves carrying 40 L (approx. 20 kg) bags of compost a distance of approx. 40 meters. Let us know via the form below if this will be a barrier for you.
Parking at Kaicycle Urban Farm is very limited. We have one car park in our entrance way which can be used for compost collections. All street parking is for the Hospital.
Our compost is unsifted. We try to remove large chunks of wood, fruit stickers etc, but you may find some of these in your compost.
Please return the compost bags (reused grain sacks from The Garage Project) for further reuse - please leave them in the same place you picked up the compost from.
Receive compost donations
We donate compost to local food growing projects in the community, such as community gardens, schools, marae and healthcare providers.
Please fill in the form below to tell us your preferred collection location and time, compost amount and any other requirements. Then we'll email back to confirm your order and collection.
Important things to note:
You will need to load up the compost yourselves from our maturation piles, so we advise bringing a pickup truck or trailer and a few helping hands - we can help if someone is on site. If you only need a small amount (<160L) we may be able to bag up the compost for you.
Parking at Kaicycle Urban Farm is very limited. We have one car park in our entrance way which can be used for compost collections. All street parking is for the Hospital.
Our compost is unsifted. We try to remove large chunks of wood, fruit stickers etc, but you may find some of these in your compost.
Please return the compost bags (reused grain sacks from The Garage Project) for further reuse - please leave them in the same place you picked up the compost from.
We hope our compost goes on to produce some delicious homegrown veggies and native perennials. Let us know how you get on - we love to see photos of your mahi māra! <3
