City To Farm
City to Farm collects food scraps across north Auckland for composting on local farms. Since 2019 we have diverted over 350 tonnes of food scraps from landfill helping businesses and schools participate in climate change solutions.
What We Do
City to Farm collects all types of food scraps in specially sealed wheelie bins.
We meet with businesses to survey the food scraps generated. Collection can start right away.
Building soil carbon with biochar is a carbon sink. We still need to turn off the fossil fuel tap but creating topsoil out of clay improves drought resistance, water infiltration, lessens soil erosion, and buffers cropping against extreme weather events associated with climate change. Participating businesses become genuine mitigators of climate change.
How It Works
We drop off buckets or wheelie bins, you fill them up, we collect them - Simple!
City to Farm provides a range of collection containers from buckets to wheelie bins. C2F trains your staff to layer the food with Zing, a food-safe compost starter that also controls odours.
City to Farm collects the bins or buckets weekly and replaces them with clean containers and more Zing. All you need to do is find a secure, shady place to store bins or buckets for easy collection.
Why We Do It
How we grow our food and dispose of our food waste are among the biggest contributors to climate change.
By demonstrating how food can be grown organically using food scraps by composted directly on rural properties we demonstrate how to lessen agriculture’s impact on the wider environment.
City to Farm wants to make climate mitigation accessible so that anyone is able to be part of the solution!
City to Farm needs more rural properties. Is yours suitable? Find out more.
About City to Farm
Who Is Onboard
Have a read of some local’s stories who are already a part of the City to Farm network
"It’s a convenient, efficient, simple system that isn’t demanding of staff time, it’s no extra effort, we just have another bin. The cost is minimal and we have already diverted 5 tonnes of food scraps from landfill which is great considering we are a small business” - Nigel, Co-Owner and Chef at Two Spoons
Evelyn Page
Ryman Healthcare
Retirement Village
Two Spoons
Cafe & Eatery
Browns Bay Brewing
Deep Creek
Brews & Eats
Northcross
Intermediate
School