Together we can build gardens and use food waste's worth to green the earth.
Verdi Gardens
Our Vision
Our Accomplishments
Our Strategy
At Verdi, our vision is to create self-sustaining gardens that include both community growing spaces and traditional allotments. All practices will utilize regenerative growing practices beyond organic requirements to build soil and produce safe chemical-free food for people.
Our Strategy
Our Accomplishments
Our Strategy
We plan to utilize land dedicated to garden space through community partners. In an effort to enhance the viability and value of green jobs, a lead gardener would be paid through the rents paid for individual allotments. Each site would also include an allotment for the gardener's use and another that the gardener will manage as a communa
We plan to utilize land dedicated to garden space through community partners. In an effort to enhance the viability and value of green jobs, a lead gardener would be paid through the rents paid for individual allotments. Each site would also include an allotment for the gardener's use and another that the gardener will manage as a communal growing area.
The overall design will use permaculture principles to create low-input, beautiful growing spaces.
Our Accomplishments
Our Accomplishments
Our Accomplishments
Our founders are Certified Permaculture Designers with almost 40 years of organic gardening experience combined.
Our latest project is converting a 1/2 acre suburban lot to a productive edible landscape. Another project has provided much of the produce, goat milk and eggs for a family of five for the past 10 years. We're also involved personally in church and school garden projects.
Food Waste Recycling
Our Food Waste Recycling Vision
Our Food Waste Recycling Vision
Our Food Waste Recycling Vision
Food waste makes up over 1/5 of solid waste going to landfills. In the landfill, food waste is not exposed to air, and is therefore broken down in a way that produces methane, a greenhouse gas that may be contributing to climate change.
Verdi is working to establish food waste collection hubs at local schools, churches, recreation centers
Food waste makes up over 1/5 of solid waste going to landfills. In the landfill, food waste is not exposed to air, and is therefore broken down in a way that produces methane, a greenhouse gas that may be contributing to climate change.
Verdi is working to establish food waste collection hubs at local schools, churches, recreation centers and other community sites. Verdi will in turn provide finished compost and support to establish gardens at interested sites.
Our History
Our Food Waste Recycling Vision
Our Food Waste Recycling Vision
After gardening organically for about 25 years, I moved to a location with dry, unproductive soil. Desperate to build better soil to grow food and flowers again, I stumbled upon bokashi. It handled all my food waste and fed my garden soil. The more I learned, the more I realized food waste shouldn't be a problem. It's a resource we're car
After gardening organically for about 25 years, I moved to a location with dry, unproductive soil. Desperate to build better soil to grow food and flowers again, I stumbled upon bokashi. It handled all my food waste and fed my garden soil. The more I learned, the more I realized food waste shouldn't be a problem. It's a resource we're carelessly sending to the landfill. There are lots of strategies to use food waste's worth to green the earth. Let's explore them together!
Our Compost Mission
Our Food Waste Recycling Vision
Our Compost Mission
Verdi's goal is to make food waste recycling standard practice in St. Louis County. We aim to connect people in their local community to the knowledge, materials and space needed to transform food waste into nutrient rich compost to improve local soils. In turn, the improved local soil can provide the community with quality produce and pe
Verdi's goal is to make food waste recycling standard practice in St. Louis County. We aim to connect people in their local community to the knowledge, materials and space needed to transform food waste into nutrient rich compost to improve local soils. In turn, the improved local soil can provide the community with quality produce and people the opportunity to connect around gardening and composting.
Verdi will also create a network of trained compost site managers.
Help Our Cause
Currently, contributions will allow Verdi to start our first Community Garden and Food Waste Collection Site!
