Chestnut Ridge

We're excited to announce that The Cooperative Community Fund of Weaver Street Market has awarded us a $300 grant to fund a new vermiposting project at The Farm at Chestnut Ridge.

As a center serving over 27,000 meals each year, we have ample opportunities to model practices that offer ways to live sustainably and thoughtfully!

The construction and implementation of a vermiposting project is part of our mission to teach and model responsible care for the environment. To that end, the bins will be visibly located in our center’s garden which is cared for by community volunteers, campers, and students. Students from Orange, Durham, Person, Chatham, Caswell, Alamance, and Wake counties, in particular, will benefit from the addition of vermiposting as they spend time at Chestnut Ridge on school field trips. Vermiposting tangibly makes good use of our food scraps and enhances the quality of the garden’s soil, demonstrating a practice which offers hope for a sustainable future. In a world where children and youth are especially sensitive to weighty messages of environmental destruction and degradation, practices like gardening, composting and vermiposting offer a much appreciated and needed voice of hope and empowerment.

The grant will be awarded at Weaver Street's Annual Meeting on October 18th at the Carrboro Century Center.

To assist with the vermiposting project, or to schedule a sustainability related field trip for your students, please contact Nick Jeffries at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Many thanks to Weaver Street Market for sharing our commitment to the environment and our community!