We’ve been following the work of @projectblackgold.sg for a while now, and were thrilled to join these passionate compost makers on one of their Sunday morning activities. Ching Wei, along with the residents of Regent Heights (one of the 3 hoods @projectblackgold.sg has been working with!), brought their vegetable and fruit scraps saved through the week to contribute to the hot compost pile. That morning, they also gathered a hugeee market-rescued jackfruit and a big bag of saw dust saved from a wood working store. We contributed our own bag of scraps from Rainbow Pops making, a whole bunch fallen leaves (one of our fiddle leaf fig is going a little bare) and 3 containers of coffee grounds. The amazing team collectively rescued over 50kg of scraps! It was an educational morning even for co founder M who has done various types of farming and composting work when living in New Zealand for over 5 years. We did a bit of tossing to aerate a week old compost pile (which was hot enough to be steaming and smells amazing like we’re in the forest!), and piling layers upon layers of brown and green material. We got to see the beautiful kai lan the residents grew using a ready batch of compost, learnt about weeds and why they’re not all that bad, and how keeping a compost pantry of random rescued leaves and grass cuttings can help turn green material into brown material - which is great for turning nitrates into carbon and diversifying the sources going into the compost pile, or how getting the community to sit around and cut up scraps together for use can foster that amazing sense of togetherness - even involving children. Team TDG has been brainstorming on the various ways we can ensure our home compostable packaging gets diverted from the landfills and goes back into making nutrient rich soil (also known as black gold, and hence the name of the project!). We do intend to work on a new worm bin (yes, the kind of worms you see in one of our composting posters at the shop - those belong to co founder M’s vermicompost bin at home!) but can’t wait to work out other means once circumstances allow! Who else would be interested to do weekly composting work?