DPR Compost Cooperative Network

04/17/2025

Looking for a place to garden this year? The Shared Roots program matches gardeners with unused school gardens. Registration just open. https://osse.dc.gov/page/shared-roots-site-application-now-open

01/31/2025

The DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Communal Farm Leader program trains community members for FREE on a variety of ways to grow food in urban environments in exchange for helping expand weekend access at DPR Communal Farms during the growing season. This program is a great chance to learn how to grow food, from seed to harvest, while helping feed your community. Thanks to the help of the 2024 Communal Farm Leaders, the communal farms grew and gave away over 14K pounds of produce to 100s of community members in need in 2024. We hope to grow even more food this year with your help!

Requirements
From Mid-February to October Farm Leaders will
• Receive a combination of hands-on and virtual training on various topics including building garden beds and soil prep, propagation and planting, pest, disease, and w**d management, food justice, etc.

From April to October Farm leaders will
• Help host weekend open farm hours at a DPR Communal Farm of their choice, where participants will learn how to grow and co-manage a communal production farm. Open farm hours are supervised times where community members can visit a communal farm to volunteer, learn, and/or harvest. *No prior growing knowledge is required. Participants will be taught everything they need to know to help grow at communal farms and co-host weekend open farm hours.

More info at http://bit.ly/4hbVdXE

To apply for the 2025 DPR Communal Farm Leader Program please email [email protected] expressing your interest by Monday, February 10th. If this is your first time joining the farm leader program please include a short summary (1-2 paragraphs) explaining why you’re interested in joining the program, what you hope to learn from the program, and which communal farm your most interested in joining.

04/03/2024

Learn everything needed to start a successful veggie garden this May in a 8-class, 2-week long, online, evening crash course on growing food

05/08/2023

Need a place to garden this summer? Check out the Shared Roots program which matches gardens that need gardeners with gardeners that need gardens.

The member application is open at the below link till May 10th. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SharedRoots2023-SiteMember

Click here to view a map of garden sites available
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1rXIiI41lRuw6ZMmO2JHKA87j1FKpWI4&ll=38.90935005061314%2C-77.00445155&z=12

03/09/2023

Have a garden that needs help? Check out the Shared Roots program. Registration is currently open till March 15th for garden host sites. Volunteer registration coming soon. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SharedRoots2023-SiteCoordinator

09/06/2022

Check out this compost lecture series starting tonight!

6 class lecture series on composting in the city

04/19/2022

The Shared Roots program (a program that matches DC residents looking for a place to garden to unused gardens like closed school gardens over summer, home yards, etc) has just opened its member application. We have over 20 garden sites around the city registered who are looking for gardeners this summer and we're ready to start recruiting gardeners to match to these sites. Here is the link to the application and more info
https://osse.dc.gov/page/shared-roots-site-application-now-open Please contact [email protected] with questions.

09/29/2021

Announcing DMV Food Recovery Week- free events Oct 4-9!

02/16/2021

Description Now more than ever people are understanding the importance of growing our own food. That’s why during this time of social distancing the DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Grower Course has been converted into an online webinar course called the DPR Urban Grower Webinar Course. The DPR Urban...