Urban compost. Kept local.

Turning urban waste streams (rescue-bunny bedding + cafe waste) into living soil through neighborhood compost hubs.

Workshops + Events
How to + sources

The Velveteen Bean is decentralized composting; keeping nutrients, microbes, and responsibility close to home instead of trucking waste away. Skip the emissions of the green bin, starve the landfill.

Hi, I’m Maggie, I’m a composter producer, micro-hauler, and show and teach the magic of waste-to-renewal through story, installations, art, and education.

What you can do

  • Join or host a neighborhood compost hub

  • Learn the TVB flexible method that works at any scale

  • Get hands-on support through workshops and site visits

Why local?
Local compost cuts hauling, builds real, living soil, and turns waste into shared joy and responsibility.

Not about perfection. About participation.

Why Velveteen Bean Method?

  • Provides a carbon-heavy base of consistent size (pine bedding), hard to find in urban places.

  • Microbes, bunny manure goodness

  • Quick nitrogen (coffee grounds) to get any pile balanced, usually hot.

  • AYO (add your own) kitchen scraps, etc.

Every free item like the composting worms, compost inoculant, seeds, plants, mushroom blocks, pile building, workshop, and bucket of compost is made possible through shared effort, spreading the word, trade-in-labor, skills, time, materials, and funds.

Contribute

“We’re in a hinge moment, not a hopeless one. Compost is a future where decay is generative, where resourcefulness is joy, and where hope grows in a warm (or worm) pile.

Join me.

Everything we need is already here, so I try my best work with what exists from local waste streams, reduce local emissions, and avoid creating new waste when reuse is richer (and funner!)

My ethos is simple: build community, not consumption.

Why It Matters:
Every contribution helps this work stay alive and supports free events, give-aways, and instruction.

A portion of what I receive goes to back to the rescue bunnies at Rabbit Ears Rescue!

  • Tell me more about what you’re looking for!

    What are you looking to learn, gain or help with? Some examples…collect bulk coffee grounds from your local cafe, pick up bunny bedding, partner with local business to get their compost goods. Help deliver, build worm bins, tend piles, or support at events… what’s your idea?

    Or simply come have fun. Meet cool people, learn compost! I have poor leadership structure! help!

  • You can help simply by telling others.

    • Share, repost a post or flyer in person or instagram

    • Connect me with a café, school, or garden

    • Introduce interesting collaborators or compost crazies.

  • Includes speaking and events.

    Setting up a compost system, slow-pace garden design, strategy for improving your soil, or adding an educational, artful, or compost-y to your garden or event. Creative consulting.

    • $60/hour (including commute time)

    • Sliding scale not only available but encouraged. If you can pay more, you help others pay less. See “Green Bottle” below for guidance.

    • Funded projects, schools, and businesses use the commercial rate.

Hi, I’m Maggie. I get overwhelmed by group texts and climate grief, so I started this scrappy project.You can hear more about how it happened on The Moth
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Questions?