Support Star City Compost and Our Origin Story
The Harvest Collective is ready to bring food waste recycling to the Roanoke Valley. Since 2019, there has been an imminent prospect that we would develop a business plan to establish Roanoke’s first food waste collection program and composting facility. Over the course of these years, we have gone through multiple iterations of what this business could be. Meanwhile, our organization has also explored avenues of community gardening and perennial food forestry, all within the context that this community gardening movement could reach a larger audience by integrating food waste recycling as an option for Roanokers. Now, at the end of 2022, w e are almost ready to launch Star City Compost – as Roanoke’s first compost facility and food waste recycling option in the Spring of 2023. We’ve established a good operations and site plan for a compost facility, we’ve signed a 5 year lease to the property, we’ve saved $20K to support the project, we’ve got a good core team t