Star City Compost

Star City Compost Star City Compost is Roanoke, VA's first and only commercial food waste recycling program making quality compost for local farms, landscapers, and gardeners.

07/29/2026

🌿✨ For World Conservation Day, FestivalPark Grounds Manager Danielle wandered over to the beautiful community garden at Star City Compost, where Davey shared a little of the magic that's growing there.

More than a garden, it's a place where neighbors grow together, learn together, and share the harvest. From juicy strawberries to potatoes, peppers, and peas, every corner is rooted in community and care for the Earth. 🌻🍓

After three years of love, this little patch of earth has truly come alive, and it feels like the kind of magic we believe in at FestivalPark. 💚 Happy World Conservation Day! May we all plant a little more kindness, grow a little more together, and leave the earth better than we found it. 🌎✌️

Learn more about Star City Compost here:
https://www.starcitycompost.com

Boy was it hot at the Championships held at Elmwood Park in Roanoke the past couple of days. Abby was begging for the k...
07/17/2026

Boy was it hot at the Championships held at Elmwood Park in Roanoke the past couple of days. Abby was begging for the kids to spray her with their water guns. We got through the first two days of the event, diverting nearly 300 lbs of recycling and 150 lbs of compostables from the landfill. Now onto a weekend of races at explore park.

We’d love to be Roanoke city’s go to partner for making Elmwood Park, a staple of green events in our region. Imagine us at every concert and every major event at Elmwood working with food trucks to use compostable wares and beer vendors for recyclable or reusable (even better) cups. We’ve shown our dedication with 8 years of management for ’s “Go Fest” and the Blue Ridge Half Marathon. We are very capable of handling sustainable waste management for these large events. I think this is a quick and easy way for Roanoke city to start taking more steps towards educating about composting and recycling at all of its events by having signage about recycling and composting sy all of these events.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. We’re knocking these big concrete projects off our to do list! Compostin...
07/15/2026

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. We’re knocking these big concrete projects off our to do list!

Composting regulations in the state of VA require the space where compost is first handled and processed to be on top of a concrete pad. We expanded our concrete pad yesterday to:

1. Allow for safer and smoother access for our tractor going in and out of the aerated static pile compost bunkers
2. To provide smoother delivery of our compost totes to the mixing bay
3. Prevent any compost water from flowing out of the front of the bunkers

While we were at it, we also poured a small concrete pad around our wellhead to serve as the foundation for our soon to be built well house and I topped off the “Heritage Point” monument with a layer of concrete. There’s still a couple of big projects to finish this month and two festivals coming up. Let’s do this!!

We’re so excited to work with to help divert all of their organics from the landfill. Our company can not only help fol...
06/01/2026

We’re so excited to work with to help divert all of their organics from the landfill. Our company can not only help folks keep food waste out of the landfill, but we can also provide an alternative to throwaway plastic cups in the break room and keep all of the bathrooms paper towels from going into the landfill.

Special thanks to Rosie Maloney for leading the composting effort at Novonesis.

05/29/2026

Thank you FloydFest. We are so excited to compost your waste this summer. ❤️

And to see My Morning Jacket!!!

03/27/2026

Join us tomorrow 3/28 for a tree planting from 9 am - 12 pm at the 2 acre food forest The Harvest Collective has worked for years to establish at Outback Orchards. We will be planting 3 jujubes, 2 peaches, 2 Asian persimmons and 2 Asian pears.

I’ll also do a tour of the space and talk about our plans to grow more food there this year as a part of our harvest sharing time bank.

Big thanks to who has been a dream come true in making this project real.

We hope to see you soon!

This is a picture of a new rainwater irrigation system set up for our aerated static compost bunkers. Another small vict...
03/23/2026

This is a picture of a new rainwater irrigation system set up for our aerated static compost bunkers. Another small victory towards making amazing compost with efficient operations!

Most people don’t realize how critical water is to effective decomposition. In our set-up we pump leachate back into the piles, but in times of drought the system dries up. So now we will be able to pump rain water from 825 G of cistern storage back into the compost piles.

It’s taken years to dial in these systems. The knowledge we possess at SCC will help get many more community scale static aerated composting systems to come into existence.

03/21/2026

If you’ve ever wondered why we do this, it’s been done with the foresight that this would be inevitable.

These two sisters are enjoying their opportunity to put some food security into the ground by planting two sister compan...
03/11/2026

These two sisters are enjoying their opportunity to put some food security into the ground by planting two sister companion plants.

The edible tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke will turn into a very tall sunflower like plant with little to no effort besides putting them in the ground. Plant some American groundnut next to them and the vine will grow up the sunflower creating an edible, forget it about it hedge. As long as the groundhogs don’t eat, the young sunchoke shoots will have good success.

We love planting things in edge and marginal spaces that will produce food, reduce management, and create a little bit of beauty.

We’re hosting workdays on our garden/farm projects on Tuesday, Thuraday and Saturday 9:30-1 pm. There’s no time better than now to be involved with a group dedicated to our own food soveregnty.

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Roanoke, MD
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