Compost Club is a Nelson charity bringing people together each week to craft living compost and build community resilience. Our free Saturday workshops at Brook Waimārama Community Gardens teach best-practice hot composting, turn maturing heaps, and nourish local soils, with around 10 volunteers taking part. Powered by food scraps collected locally, we transform “waste” into nutrient-rich compost for home and community gardens. We serve households and businesses in Nelson’s CBD, supporting a vibrant, low-waste city centre. Over six years, more than 624 tonnes of kitchen waste have been diverted from landfill through our network, supported by many locals and 120+ regular collection customers.

Innovation underpins this mahi. We embrace methods that make urban composting cleaner, safer and scalable, including trials of locally designed bEartha in-vessel composter adapted for our teaching gardens. With philanthropic support, we will grow our education programmes, train more volunteers boosting capacity so more households and businesses can join our circular, low-waste movement. We are cultivating healthy soils and thriving gardens - one hot heap at a time.