Decentralized Home + Urban Compost.
Tangible, beneficial, shared, hyper-local climate action. Join me.
The Velveteen Bean is a (free/open sourced/decentralized) highly adaptable and scaleable method of composting for anyone who wants to compost in an urban or suburban space.
Want to contribute to just a part of the composting process and share in the goods? It’s Mutual-aid compost!
Join-a-pile; you can host/ tend/collect depending on your capacity.
Yes, everybody, any space. The urban salvaged base is rescue-bunny bedding (Velveteen)+ cafe bulk coffee grounds(Bean).
From there, the sky is the limit to creating your own living, local compost.
Skip the emissions of the green bin, starve the landfill.
This provides:
Carbon-heavy base of consistent size, hard to find in urban places.
Microbes, bunny manure goodness
Quick nitrogen to get any pile balanced, usually hot.
AYO (add your own) kitchen scraps, etc.
I showcase and teach the magic of waste-to-renewal through story, installations, art, and education.
Every free item like the composting worms, compost inoculant, seeds, plants, mushroom blocks, pile building, workshop, and bucket of compost is made possible through shared effort spreading the word, trade-in-labor, skills, time, materials, and funds.
“We’re in a hinge moment, not a hopeless one. Compost isn’t just a waste solution; it’s a joyful climate practice that anyone can do. Compost is a future where decay is generative, where resourcefulness is joy, and where hope grows in a warm (or worm) pile.
Join me.
Everything we need is already here, so I try my best work with what exists from local waste streams, reduce local emissions and avoid creating new waste when reuse is richer (and funner!)
My ethos is simple: build community, not consumption.
Why It Matters:
Every contribution helps this work stay alive and supports free events, give-aways, and instruction.
A portion of what I receive goes to back to the rescue bunnies at Rabbit Ears Rescue!
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Tell me more about what you’re looking for!
What are you looking to learn, gain or help with? Some examples…collect bulk coffee grounds from your local cafe, pick up bunny bedding, partner with local business to get their compost goods. Help deliver, build worm bins, tend piles, or support at events… what’s your idea?Or simply come have fun. Meet cool people, learn compost! I have poor leadership structure! help!
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You can help simply by telling others.
Share, repost a post or flyer in person or instagram
Connect me with a café, school, or garden
Introduce interesting collaborators or compost crazies.
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Includes speaking and events.
Setting up a compost system, slow-pace garden design, strategy for improving your soil, or adding an educational, artful, or compost-y to your garden or event. Creative consulting.
$60/hour (including commute time)
Sliding scale not only available but encouraged. If you can pay more, you help others pay less. See “Green Bottle” below for guidance.
Funded projects, schools, and businesses use the commercial rate.
Hi, I’m Maggie. I get overwhelmed by group texts and climate grief, so I started this scrappy project.You can hear more about how it happened on The Moth
