YIMBY Compost in West End

YIMBY (yes in my backyard) is a hyper-local community composting system here in Castlemaine. Volunteers collect their neighbour’s organic food waste each week and process it into rich, high-quality compost that’s used to grow food in their backyards. 

The West End currently have 11 Community Compost Hubs, and around 90 households contributing their food scraps. We also have a young GYMby team; 18-30 year olds who help composters with the physical demands of turning dozens of cubic meters of compost each year! There are so many ways to contribute to YIMBY.

If you’d like to contribute your food scraps, become a community composter, lend your biceps to YIMBY GYMby, help in other ways or access composting resources, sign up on the YIMBY website or email hello@yimbycompost.com.

All our Composters and GYMby’s receive training and expertise in the YIMBY hot compost method so you don’t have to be an expert to get involved. Across the West End, neighbours are mentoring and supporting neighbours on their composting adventures.

It’s about composting, and so much more!

Diverting nitrogen-rich scraps the YIMBU way closes the loop on recycling food organics and reduces methane emissions coming from waste transportation and rotting organics in landfill. It’s a way to act on climate change, nourish our soils, grow our community and strengthen our resilience.