Tempe Community Action Agency has worked with Lauren and Let’s Go Compost at our Escalante Community Garden space in Tempe, AZ. Lauren has brought free composting education to the community through her presence and partnership at the community garden, and has been an excellent advocate for composting and waste reduction, and eliminating barriers to getting started- even in low income or multiunit housing. She has also brought more visibility and awareness of our garden into the community through her own community advocacy. Lauren is an absolute pleasure to work with and we have benefitted from working with her and Let’s Go Compost.
Let's go compost is an amazing nonprofit. Our school was given a gardening tower, seeds, worms, curriculum, gloves and shovels. My afterschool gardening class was a success. I was able to teach the students the basics of gardening, the importance of plants and how gardening can be both fun and beneficial to the environment. The students had fun exploring the worms and explained how to create a worm bin for composting. It was so hands on for the kids and they enjoyed it. We also talked about how worm castings can be used in the soil to boost plant growth. Worms are great for enriching garden soil and worm compost can be added directly to the vertical garden. Thank you lets go Compost!!! We will be using all the materials for years to come. Also, forgot to mention they gave us picture books to use in the classroom about composting.
Great experience for the students at our school. This program is easy, well organized and teacher friendly with great teaching resources for our students to set up a successful compost program!
My school was gifted a garden tower, garden soil, seeds, educational books on composting, and live worms to start a compost program at our school. The garden club is so excited to see the worms and collect the compostable materials from the cafeteria to give to the worms and add to the soil. Let's Go Compost has really changed the attitude towards worms as friends and not foes! We've also enjoyed seeing how much we've diverted from landfills and put back into our gardens, which then have grown food that we've donated to a local food bank (full circle good!) Lauren Click is so helpful to talk to and has picked out the best resources to teach classes about the benefits of worms and usefulness of things we might not think twice about tossing in a trash bin.
Let's Go Compost donated a Box of Life, a worm composting bin, to my classroom and gifted me a certificate for worms from the AZ Worm Farm. The kindergarten and first grade students I work with have absolutely enjoyed the experience of learning about worms and compost and how to use food waste in a productive way. Lauren, the founder, also found funds to give my classroom books about worms and composting which the students love. I love this program and all the good the company is doing to help make our world a better place.
Let's go compost provided a gardening tower, worms, seeds, and books to introduce the concepts of composting and gardening to my 3rd and 4th grade students. The students love feeding their food scraps to the worms, caring for their plants and seeing the plants grow and blossom. They provided me support through lessons and virtual Q & A sessions, to help me in teaching my students these important skills and lessons. This experience has been far more successful than any other gardening/composting efforts I have tried previously at my school. Thank you so much!
At Collier Business Academy, our Second Graders embarked on an incredible journey through Gardening Exploration, learning not just about growing plants, but also how to do it sustainably through composting. As part of our Project-Based Learning (PBL) students took on the roles of Growers and Farmer's Market Business Owners, discovering how to cultivate vegetables in the Healthiest way possible. What better way to enrich our garden than by diving into the world of composting? Students explored the magic of worm composting, learning all about red wigglers-ultimate decomposers! They were thrilled to feed these squirmy helpers leftover food scraps, understanding firsthand how worms transform waste into nutrient-rich compost. Let's Go Compost generously equipped us with garden tower which will be unlocking for growth and exploration this year.
Our young "decomposers" worked tirelessly throughout the hot summer, cleaning the garden, and keeping our plants healthy and productive. But this year, we are raising the bar! With the help of 8th graders and kindergartners joining the composting program, we are excited to expand our garden and composting efforts even further. As cooler weather approaches in AZ, we can't wait to dive back into hands-on gardening activities with Let's Go Compost leading the way.
At Collier Business Academy, we are grateful for the support and resources this amazing program provides. From worm bins to garden towers, everything we need to succeed is at our fingertips. With the passion and teamwork of our 2nd, 8th Grade, and Kindergartner decomposers, we know this will be our best year yet! Let's GO Compost is not just a program-it's a movement. and we're ready to grow together!
I was introduced to Let's Go Compost at a gardening training for teachers. We set up a home for worms and learned about vermicomposting. I never knew how much I'd care for these worms and the students were even more engaged and interested in the composting process. Let's Go Compost has since provided more worms, a grow tower, books on vermicomposting, and most recently, shovels, rakes, and tarps to work with in the school garden. The students have been engaged and always ask when they get to feed the worms or get their materials ready and also when they get to go out and work in the garden. They have enjoyed going through the process of the life cycle in feeding and growing new worms, that we have been able to add to the school's garden beds. The excitement in taking care of these small creatures has grown over the months and we could not be more grateful! The continued support of Let's Go Compost has been of great use to our classroom.
Let's go compost is a wonderful organization. The students I work with have learned so much about composting and love to help out in our school garden. All the donations we have received to help with the composting is truly appreciated by my students. My students love to see how the plants that were planted in the garden tower are growing and feel very proud of themselves when they get to harvest. I am very exited to get more classrooms involved in the composting at our school. I started with one classroom and starting January four more classrooms will be joining us. Now that let's go compost donated a composting kit I can have those classrooms join us and hopefully more classrooms will want to help too. Thank you Let's go Compost.
I can not say enough great things about Lets Go Compost. They have been unwavering in their support for our school garden program. They have donated multiple books on vermicomposting and waste management, gifted us worm towers and seeds, and helped garner community volunteers for volunteer days. Working in Arizona public ed can feel hopeless at times, but is reassuring and uplifting to know that NPs like Lets Go Compost exist. They are facilitating the most important instruction in these public institutions-how to steward the Earth and its inhabitants. Thank you LGC!
Let Go Compost truly went above and beyond with their generous donation of a garden tower, complete with all the necessary supplies, to our Special Needs classroom. This thoughtful contribution has opened up wonderful opportunities for hands-on learning and skill-building for our students. It's clear that Let Go Compost values community engagement and sustainability, and their support has made a meaningful impact in our classroom. Thank you for making a difference in our students' lives and empowering them to connect with nature in such a unique way!
Let's Go Compost donated a worm composting tower to my special education preschool classroom to help eliminate the food waste in our classroom. The kids in my classroom love feeding the worms their leftover snacks that would normally go in the trash and become waste. Let's Go Compost also brought books for the kids about composting. They also help on our Garden Service Days by painting our courtyard, pulling weeds and planting seeds. I'm very thankful for all their help in my classroom eliminating waste and in our school garden.
It all started with a Zoom meeting with an educational volunteer at LetsGoCompost! My daughter who is doing her Undergraduate Studies at Arizona State University mentioned that this organization was working with schools to introduce and implement Composting. As a 5th grade Science teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio during the 2023-24 school year, this perked my interest, and I needed advice from experts. LetsGoCompost gifted me with the best lesson plans that I could start with my classrooms! I started researching the various ways I could start a compost bin, which would make the lessons more meaningful. What followed was such a surprise! Lauren Click, the CEO of LetsGoCompost contacted me out of the blue and said they would fund the whole composting program at Woodland Elementary, where I teach!!! They sent us the Red Wigglers, the Worm Tower and all the accessories needed to start off the work of these amazing decomposers! They have constantly supported me with their advice throughout this endeavor. Students have been so enriched with the well laid lesson plans by LetsGoCompost and have enjoyed watching their new wiggler friends do their magic!!! We converted this into an End of the Year Problem Based Lesson (PBL), and students presented their projects at the end of April. The main goal of this project was for student groups to create “companies/businesses” that can help the school cafeteria control food waste. LetsGoCompost even visited us virtually through a recorded video answering our students’ questions regarding their organization during this PBL. We are hoping that this program is taken to a bigger level in the years to come at Woodland Elementary! The Woodland Raised Bed Compost Garden was designed as an Eagle Scout project. Students planted Ohio Native Pollinators including Milkweed. This year we harvested tomatoes in our Compost Garden and are waiting for our Watermelons to get bigger! We even planted Fall Native flowers and are waiting for them to bloom! We are in the process of brainstorming ideas to continue Sustainable lessons in the classrooms and beyond. The worms will be back into the 3rd grade classroom that I am teaching this year, and the kids are so excited. I will be using LetsGoCompost's 3rd grade lesson plan that they have created and covers so much of our science curriculum. This hands-on experience is so much more meaningful to kids and helps them retain this information so much better than traditional methods of teaching. We are forever grateful to this wonderful organization for having encouraged and supported us in our Waste Management lessons at school and looking forward to future collaborations with them. Sustainability is an essential part of a school’s curriculum and LetsGoCompost has helped us teachers spearhead this with success!
I am a high school garden club sponsor and I've been working with Let's Go Compost since this Spring. They are an incredible resource for K-12 composting education. If you want your money to go toward an effective environmental cause, this is a great place to start. They are extremely organized and efficient. Lauren Click, the founder, knows how to get stuff done. I've been amazed with the resources and support Let's Go Compost has provided to my school. I also appreciate the limited scope and local focus, which allows them to really delve into solving problems and being effective in their sphere.
My kids and I had a wonderful time volunteering with Let's Go Compost in cleaning up a community garden. None of us has a green thumb but we still were welcomed and actually felt productive! There was something for even my 7-year old to do. We would definitely volunteer again in the future. The people were fun, the work was fulfilling, and we got great exercise in the process.
Great organization that really does a lot of good for the community! I highly recommend volunteering and donating to this nonprofit as they are amazing and I’ve seen firsthand the good they are doing. I was able to volunteer and assist in planting a community garden in one of the parks and I can say it definitely made a difference and was a truly rewarding experience!