Aotearoa Composters Network is a big beautiful movement of over 100 compost hubs, clubs and compost consultants that connect to share their knowledge and resources across Aotearoa.
Below are just some of the examples of the organisations and individuals that make up Aotearoa Composters Network.
To see more of the network check out the Takiwa Composting Map here.
Below are just some of the examples of the organisations and individuals that make up Aotearoa Composters Network.
To see more of the network check out the Takiwa Composting Map here.
Nationwide
Blue Borage Nationwide Biodynamic Compost Consultant. Circular Gardens & Exquisite Compost . We help people, businesses and communities make exquisite compost. Are you ready to transform your space? Blue Borage offers in person and online courses, consulting services, and coaching packages to optimise your composting and property maintenance. |
The Carbon Cycle Co Nationwide Our team have been passionate compost makers for decades. Through trial and error, we learned that commercially available composters had so many short-comings that they had little chance of gaining wide acceptance from communities so that they would not only start composting but also keep composting. |
Te Tai Tokerau | Northland
Compost Connection Whangarei Whangarei Compost Connection is EcoSolutions’ residential composting programme. The four sites collect event and market waste, as well as foodscraps from Taimahi members, a Marae and some kindergartens paper towels. The hubs serve as local learning spaces for schools, groups, and individuals while contributing to local community gardens, increasing food production and food resilience while reducing the amount of organic matter going to landfill. |
Sustainable Kaipara kaipara The Compost project: Sending organic waste to landfill is bad for the environment, yet that same waste can be a valuable resource! Until now, there have been no options in Kaipara to support businesses and families to separate and compost their organic waste. We collect food scraps from households in the Mangawhai urban area weekly, and process them in our compost. This service is the first of it’s kind in Kaipara, and we plan to grow and replicate the service throughout the district. |
Kaitaia Kaicycle and Community Compost Connection Te tai tokerau Compost Connection is EcoSolutions’ residential composting programme. We collect paper towels from kindergartens, and compostable waste from local businesses, as well as running the recycling at our local market and events. We process food scraps and carbon with green waste from our Garden Centre that would otherwise go to Landfill to create compost for Community Gardens and Food Forests. |
Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
Growspace Urban Market Garden (MUMG) Tāmaki Makaurau Grow Space works to create welcoming, inclusive and regenerative neighbourhoods in Tāmaki Makaurau. MUMG is a collaboration of six organisations - Belong Aotearoa, Catalyse, Crave Cafe, Kind Cafe, New Zealand Red Cross, and Kai Collective to teach, learn and grow produce with migrant and refugee women in an enterprise model that supplies hyper-local food to local cafes. 
Growing Point Tāmaki Makaurau Growing Point is a research, innovation and teaching hub who have grown from the Dignan Street Community Garden in Point Chevalier. Guided by a committee of volunteers from DSCG, Growing Point has been designing, developing and delivering education and training that catalyses change across the food system. Growing Point are part of the mycelium that connects the ecosystem of composters across Aotearoa. 
Ecomatters | Hope Garden Tāmaki Makaurau Located on New Lynn’s Riverbank Road at the edge of the Whau River is a thriving garden dedicated to growing food and providing opportunities to learn and share skills. Set among homes and local businesses at the end of a cul de sac, the site is being transformed into a flourishing green space that will support biodiversity, soil regeneration and learning opportunities on many levels. Taranaki |
DEANZ: Doughnut Economics Advocates New Zealand Tāmaki MakaUrau 
The Compost Co. Waiheke Resources Trust Waiheke | Tikapa moana The Compost Co. is a comercial hot composting hub on Waiheke providing food scraps processing facilities to restaurants, vineyards and zero waste events on Waiheke. The project began in February 2018 and has grown into a sustainable social enterprise that can process over 30 tonnes of food scraps per year. 
Compost Collective Tāmaki Makaurau The Compost Collective is here to help Aucklanders on their composting journey, and to eliminate food scraps and garden waste from ending up in landfill in Tāmaki Makaurau, and instead being returned to nourish the land locally. They offer workshops throughout the year to Tāmaki residents as well as Auckland COuncil subsidised composting systems to help you get on your way. |
Growspace Morningside Urban Compost Kitchen (MUCK) Tāmaki Makaurau MUCK works alongside regenerative practitioners to develop a neighbourhood scale compost hub. Recycling nutrients locally in a social enterprise, offering a neighbourhood composting service which provides local businesses and residents with a solution to transform their organic resources into living compost to support community growing initiatives. 
Brotherwood Tāmaki Makaurau Professional arboricultural and ecological design solutions. The Brotherwood team is passionate about recycling all organic resources procured through tree care operations. Resources from tree services are turned into mulches, compost, biochar, and used to grow gourmet mushrooms like Shiitake, enoki, oysters, burgundy wine caps. The biomass generated is also used in the establishment of food forests. 
NZ Ethnic Women’s Trust Community Garden Puketāpapa/Mt Roskill The aim of the Community Garden project is to promote the cultural richness of food, plants and gardening to the migrant and refugee community. Knowledge and skills of farming is taught to the community, as well as having it be a space of learning and cultural exchange through food. By utilising these skills, migrant and refugee communities can engage in meaningful labour which is an important contribution to their health and wellbeing. |
Waikato
Hayes Common Kirikiriroa | Hamilton |
Common Compost Kirikiriroa | Hamilton |
Te Whanganui-a-Tara |Wellington
Kaicycle Pōneke | Wellington Urban farming and localised composting in the heart of Newtown, Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington Kaicycle Composting takes compostable scraps from homes, offices and small businesses and recycles them into living compost. We offer a bicycle-powered compost collection that operates in Wellington City and the surrounding suburbs. |
ecoNew Upper Hutt | Pōneke After completing Climate Reality, Kiss the Ground, and Soil Food Web training, ecoNEW launched a street community garden in Riverstone, Upper Hutt in 2020 to promote regenerative gardening and engage with locals. Since then, they've supported home gardens using regenerative principles and are now helping a farmlet transition from traditional to regenerative farming. |
Te Matau-a-Māui | Hawkes Bay
Whakatū | Nelson
Community Compost Whākatu | Nelson Ethical Food-Waste Collections & Composting Solutions. We are proud to offer a premium composting service for your business, home, staff room, work kitchen or event. We can help you responsibility divert up to 75% of your waste stream! Offering 3 sizes of fresh and clean buckets, every week, for all food scraps.With hand-towels, packaging and serviceware options.We are aiming to be 100% ZERO EMISSIONS in 2022. The home of Ben and bEartha! |
Ōtākou | Otago
Grow Wānaka Central otago Community Garden, Education Hub and Composting Centre Grow Wānaka is a circular model community garden, education hub and composting centre. We are passionate about community resilience, food security and waste minimisation, with the garden at the centre of it all as a welcoming place for people to come and learn, connect, share and grow. |
Pōpopo Wormporium, Ōtepoti | Dunedin |
The Glendhu Station Composting Hub WĀNAKA Located on Glendhu Station, the purpose-built composting site processes food waste from a handful of local cafés and restaurants, using hot composting and windrow systems. The hub currently diverts roughly 30 tonnes of food waste annually and is in the initial phase of producing nutrient-rich compost used to support native planting and soil restoration projects on farm. |
Join the Network
To add your composting hub to the Network or to get involved email [email protected]