composting – El Sol Brillante

Bokashi Gardening Workshop hosted by the LES Ecology Center

Bokashi expert Shig Matsukawa teaching a group of about 10 people about bokashi in Down to Earth Garden

The Lower East Side Ecology Center will be hosting a bokashi gardening workshop on October 14th from 1-3 PM. If you’d like to participate, you can sign up here! Non-participating … Read more

Additional $500 Grant Received for our Composting Project

A bucket of food waste treated with bokashi, and another bucket showing the resulting worm compost

El Sol Brillante receives $500 grant for composting efforts

El Sol Receives $7500 Grant for Composting

A close-up of our Bokashi rotator - a metal keg placed sideways on a platform which causes the keg to rotate continuously

For 2023, LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) was selected to receive a $7500 grant for Down to Earth Garden/El Sol Brillante. The grant is from the Manhattan Composting Initiative for fiscal … Read more