North Country Community Composting Coalition
The North Country Community Composting Coalition (N4C) is a group of community-scale composters located in the NY North Country who haul food scraps and/or generate compost. Members of N4C have taken a pledge to work in collaboration with one another in support of a regional circular economy to generate the highest quality compost possible.
N4C Members
- • Adirondack Worm Farm – Glens Falls, NY – 518.615.4696 – Curbside composting, worm-powered vermicast, composting worm systems, and more
- • Blue Line Compost – Bloomingdale, NY – 518.304.3688 – Food scrap collection and compost sales in the Tri-Lakes; bucket swap locations available
- • Loving Earth Compost – Saratoga Springs, NY – 518.306.1103 – food scrap collection; compost sales; naturally grown produce
- • North Country Compost – Canton, NY – 315.250.5629 – Food scrap collection and compost sales in eastern St Lawrence County
- • Placid Earth Compost – Lake Placid, NY – Residential food scrap collection; student run business
- • River Valley Regeneratives – Plattsburgh, NY area – 518.588.2965 – Food scrap collection, compost sales; naturally grown vegetables, starter plants and berries
- • The Cook Farm – Owls Head/Malone, NY – 518.353.6026 – Food scrap collection for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members, as well as drop-off and residential pick-up for the general public
- • Whitten Family Farm – Winthrop, NY – 315.328.5559 – Food scrap collection and compost sales in the Potsdam and Massena region
Watch the following videos, produced by Adsit Media, to learn more about some of the N4C operations::
Looking for composting services outside of the North Country region? Check out this map of NYS compost operators.
The N4C Pledge
1. We commit to doing this work in solidarity to lift each other up, not compete in a market. We will not commodify knowledge shared by good will for our own benefit over the well-being of others, or take knowledge shared and poach other’s markets with it.
2. As our operations grow, we will ensure our employees are beneficiaries of that growth.
3. We will use our organization to pursue socially just and equitable communities. and, in the future, extend solidarity and knowledge to others entering this work so we may grow it together.
4. We commit to ecology and manifesting ecological intent through practice.
5. We will pursue source separation at the highest level, helping to protect soil from toxins and microplastics, and other forms of contamination, and help to build a market baseline that raises the bar, not lower it.
6. We will build a culture of stewardship within our organization, our customers and our community.
To connect with the CfG Team or engage with N4C, please contact ANCA’s Organics Recycling Coordinator Jennifer Perry at jperry@adirondack.org or Compost for Good’s John Culpepper at john@adkaction.org.
