Talent and Phoenix Compost Project
Have you been trying to find a smart solution for dealing with your kitchen scraps? Don’t want to throw them in the garbage? You can now drop off your food scraps at a convenient location near you, and Rogue Produce will transport the material to local farms. Our service keeps the scraps out of the landfill, and brings them to farmers who use them to create soil nourishing compost!
Talent and Phoenix Compost Drop Sites open in November!
For only $10 a month, you can bring your food scraps to the Talent location, at the Oregon Shakespeare Building, 408 Talent Ave, every Tuesday (beginning November 5th).
Or, if you live down the road, we have a Phoenix location at The Oregon Cheese Cave, 312 N Main St, where you can drop your scraps on Thursdays (beginning November 7th).
How it Works
Both locations have a drop site window beginning at 10am, and ending at 1pm. All you need to do is sign up for your desired location, bring your food scraps on the designated day, and drop them in the bins we provide. Rogue Produce and your local farms do the rest!
Rogue Produce has been operating the Community Compost program since 2011, and drop sites like the ones in Talent and Phoenix are working well to reduce waste in our landfills and support local farms. The more we grow this program, the greater the benefit to our local growers, who are working hard to provide sustainably grown food for our community.
Community Compost reduces costs for farms, provides local jobs, connects our community to food growers, and makes operations at Rogue Produce truly, “full circle.”
Please support our program, and sign up for one of our drop sites today. Or, you can sign up for direct home pick up in Ashland or Talent. You can also support us by becoming a Farmer’s Market Member, and ordering produce from our local Online Farmers Market. We provide home delivery every week, year round!
Communities throughout the country are converting food scrap material into compost to reduce the need for artificial fertilizers and to prevent the environmental problems that happen when food scraps go to landfills or into water treatment facilities. In Southern Oregon there is a system in place to get food scraps directly to local farms to be processed into nutrient rich soil amendments. This system not only prevents waste and environmental harm, it also provides a significant benefit to local farms and local soils! Read on to see how you can support our efforts!
How it works
We are currently raising funds in order to fully cover the cost of the food scrap drop off service for the entire Medford Grower’s Market season in 2024. We would love to receive your help in making sure we can fund this service for 2024 and beyond! In a typical pick-up at the Ashland Grower’s Market, we divert 180 gallons (6 large garbage bins) of food scrap material from the landfill and donate this valuable resource to local farms that are working hard to grow the food we all love.
