FOOD SCRAP CONTRIBUTOR

If you are a residents of Mount Alexander Shire in Victoria, register your interest here to have your food scraps collected by one of our ‘Community Composters’.

DONATE

While YIMBY runs on many people and microbes gifting their time and skills to make our community thrive above and below the ground, we do need some money to keep going. Any donations are greatly appreciated.

TIME/SKILLS TO SHARE?

We are always in need of community members’ time and skills as our networks expand. Please see list for ideas of how you can help.

GYMBY

Gymby -Forget the gym, come help turn our compost piles and join the hottest climate action in town. If you are 18-30ish years old this is for you.

Donate leaves

Locally gathered leaves are important source of carbon for our compost.

CONTAINER DEPOSIT SCHEME

Turn your bottles into straw for our composters by donating to YIMBY through the Container Deposit Scheme (CDS)

BECOME A COMPOSTER

If you live in Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria and are keen to make beauiful hot compost with your neighbours food scraps, register your interest here

YIMBY are making compost on Dja Dja Wurrung land. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

the YIMBY Story

Click here for more hot tips on hot composting in our column The Compost Conversation from Midland Express newspaper.

Yes in My Backyard – YIMBY – Growing community, soil and resilience on Dja Dja Wurrung country.

Yes in My Backyard (YIMBY) is a scaleable trial of community compost hubs, linking people keen to compost, with those who aren’t, in neighbourhood clusters. The project will support neighbourhood resilience and reduce the amount of organics reaching landfill.

Goals

Reduce carbon emissions of organics in landfill
Share resources and resourcefulness
Connect people in community - build community resilience
Contribute to local food production through improving our soils

YIMBY FUTURE VISION

YIMBY is the preferred option of most households in 2030, dramatically reducing the operating costs of the FOGO model of kerbside collection that can still be booked, but is now a collection of small scale, locally owned enterprises.

Households still contribute to ‘waste collections’ through the rates system. Instead of funding large scale, non-locally owned ‘services’ to collect ‘waste’, the rates collected provide support to YIMBY in the form of community workers, neighbourhood connectors, expert composting support, food growing skills development, community garden and composting infrastructure. The jobs funded through this model are high quality and locally connected jobs, they are highly desirable and skilled.

The needs of the community will be determined through hyper local ‘assemblies’ that are supported to make decisions by their community ‘connectors’ who are skilled at bringing people together and problem solving. Not everybody is excited about composting, but everybody has a role to play in the YIMBY model, each household and person is valued for their unique contribution to the whole.

Vision: A world where we are connected in community, minimising and sharing resources and taking responsibility for ‘our own backyard’. A world where people and place are thriving.

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A little compost wisdom for your day from Rumi 💚

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Last Tuesday night, this group of dedicated people met to talk all things compost in the Mount Alexander Shire. This is the YIMBY 'Big-picture Reference Group', and they met to look ahead to see how the YIMBY compost initiative can survive and thrive

Here's the first in our series on animal manure and how it can be an important part of your compost. Horse manure is the most readily available compost manure in our region. And this means it's a great place to live if you are a backyard composter! R

When you start out making compost, you'll probably have a lot of questions. We can help! YIMBY compost has a website packed full of resources, including these Frequently Asked Questions for when you first get going. Have a look at our website for mo

YIMBY stands for Yes In My Back Yard. It's about sharing the making of high-quality compost using the food scraps of the community - our community. Locals collect buckets of food scraps from other local houses and then take them home to make compost.

We collect data from every bucket of food scraps and our volunteers help in that process. By collecting data we can work out the impact the YIMBY Compost program is having. And to date we've made over 42,000 kg of compost from your food scraps! What'

We love our compost buckets! The good folk at @warralmaldon kindly donate them. You too could have your very own bucket, and each week, one of our volunteers would collect it from you, and take your food scraps and turn them into compost. If you'd li

We are looking for people to be a part of our compost community! Is it you? Would you like to collect food scraps from your neigbours and then make them into compost in your back yard? YIMBY will give you training and all the hands on help you need.

When if comes to compost, manure is a great addition. While some might be a bit wary to add in animal poo, it is an excellent fertiliser for our plants. The trick is to get the amounts right and to mix it in with straw. It's all about the nitrogen an

Such a lovely get together Wednesday night with some of our YIMBY compost volunteers. Thank you to everyone who came along to share a plate of food. We'd love to see some new faces in our team, so if you're keen to be a part of a local compost servic

This Sunday afternoon, 13 October, come and check out the documentary on compost, and a tonne of other great documentaries at the 'LOCALS Redux' - a screening of 6 minute local documentaries. This is being put on by @cdocfest and held at the @theatre

Team YImby have recently been on MainFM’s ‘Dig It’ Radio Program

YIMBY on the Radio - Take a Listen