Compost Crowd

What a year we had, Crowd! Together we won four Best of Arizona sustainability awards! 🥇🥇🥇🥇 In 2024 we co-sponsored two watershed cleanups, had a super fun market season, did another successful pumpkin drop event, welcomed our first property management company and several restaurants into the Compost community, were interviewed on three Arizona podcasts, established a partnership with Mill to bring collection service to offices, became founding members of the Arizona Compost Council, and collectively diverted over 100 tons of organic material from the landfill which was delivered to our farm partner to use in their agriculture operation! Wow! You deserve a round of applause! 👏🏻 We are inspired by your commitment to sustainability and your impact on the community. You have our endless gratitude for these efforts! Thank you for an amazing 2024 💚

We won! You voted us the winners for THREE “Best of Arizona” sustainability awards with Green Living Magazine! Brock and I are honored, humbled, and legit stoked that you—the Crowd—decided 🗳️ that we are your favorite in the STATE. 🥇Arizona’s Best Eco-Friendly Service For Your Home 🥇Best Arizona Company Doing Good For The Planet 🥇Arizona’sBest Eco-Friendly Small Business (I was also voted “Arizona’s Green Business Leader”, but I’m having a hard time with the personal attention of that category 🫣) It seems important acknowledge that this state-wide recognition feels like a major indicator of environmental priorities in Northern Arizona! We want you to know that when you choose to compost with our local, family-owned business we ALL WIN! 🌎🌱🪣♻️ When residents, business owners, executive chefs, municipalities, HOAs, property management companies, and event planners choose to compost their organic waste with us it is taken directly to a local agriculture operation (that also just won Arizona’s Best Sustainable Winegrower! 🍇) to support local jobs, return nutrients to the earth and improve growing conditions, avoid methane emissions from the landfill, and move the bar for sustainability efforts collectively. If you are not already part of the Crowd, we’d like to invite you to join your neighbors and we’ll waive your setup fee AND entire first month of service with code BESTOFAZ through October 14th (That’s $0 for an entire month of service!) Sign up for collection service at link in bio @compostcrowd THANK YOU to every one of you who voted for us. Our little environmentalist, small-biz-owners’ hearts couldn’t be more full of gratitude. 💞 Join the Crowd. Save the Planet. #bestofAZ #bestofarizona #bestof2024 #compostingiscool #sedonaarizona #flagstaffarizona #arizonasustainability #greenlivingmagazine #localbusiness #buylocal #supportlocal

What an incredible, historic week in Northern Arizona! We are so stoked and honored to have even been a small part of the 2026 @cocodona250 ! Beyond the big feels for @rachel__entrekin ’s record-breaking win, we’re also so proud of the organizers for making sustainability and waste diversion a major part of their planning. Capturing food scraps at aid stations along the 253-mile course raises the bar for events and races everywhere. We applaud their effort and care, and we look forward to working together to help make this the new normal in Northern AZ and beyond! #cocodona #cocodona250 #sustainableevents #compostingiscool

Heart full 💚 What an Earth Day to remember! The first thing that I feel like I need to say about yesterday’s big Earth Day Ribbon Cutting Baler Reveal + Fundraiser at @sedona_recycles is how nearly every single person who attended was part of the Crowd. It almost felt like a special gift to Brock and I that we got to see and connect with so many Sedona Crowd members unexpectedly on Earth Day. To me, it reads as members of the Crowd are people who really care — about food waste diversion, about recycling, about Earth Day, about their community, and they show up! 🫶🏻 To see the three founders of Sedona Recycles there and together for the first time in over a decade was momentous. Grateful to be there beside our friends at the @cityofsedonaaz Sustainability Team, @chocolatree providing zero-waste refreshments, and the @sedonachamber made it an Earth Day event we won’t soon top! Thank you to everyone who came out and supported this event, us, and Sedona Recycles. Happy Earth Day! 🎀✂️♻️🌎🪣🌱🏜️🍋

Happy Earth Day week! 🌎We are busy little bees 🐝 out in the community! Earth Day Celebration in Flagstaff with the City yesterday, the annual plant sale with the Sedona Village Rotary today, and, as you know, with @SedonaRecycles on Earth Day (Wednesday) for their big ribbon-cutting and fundraiser! Come see us until noon today at the plant sale in the Village of Oak Creek by the library, and get your first month of residential collection service for free when you join the Crowd in honor of Earth Day! (A story that I don’t think I’ve ever put on social media is that when we first started Compost Crowd in January 2018 it was our “get your first month of service free for Earth Day“ promo in April that properly launched the business by signing up our first 40 households! So, it’s a bit nostalgic every year to welcome new members into the Crowd in that same way! 🌎💚🫶🏻🪣🪴💙🥗

Flagstaff, we are so excited to see you at tomorrow’s big Earth Day celebration at Bushmaster Park starting at 11 AM! We were sad when last year‘s event was rained out, so we’re even more excited to be in the community for this big moment! It’s super special being in the sustainability world to have events and celebrations dedicated to Earth Day. It’s a great opportunity to bring attention to the significance of environmental impact and ways that individuals and organizations can continue to increase their sustainability efforts! 🌎🌱♻️💚

REMINDER: Join us next Wednesday on Earth Day at Sedona Recycles! 🌍♻️ 04/22/2026 Time: 11 am - 2pm Where: 2280 Shelby Drive At our Earth Day celebration, you can learn about sustainability from local organizations and enjoy some refreshments. We will be there to answer your recycling questions, share information about tours happening throughout the day, and showcase the reusable gifts available for donors. @compostcrowd will be on-site to talk about the importance of diverting kitchen scraps from the landfill—helping reduce methane emissions and return valuable nutrients back to the soil to support local agriculture. The @cityofsedonaaz Sustainability team will have their spin wheel game, highlighting local environmental initiatives and ways to get involved. And @chocolatree will be generously providing their famous ginger lemonade, served in reusable glasses. We can't wait to spend this Earth Day showcasing sustainanabily in Sedona! #earthday2026 #sedonarecycles #Sedonacares #balerreveal

@compostcrowd makes composting easy peasyyyy you throw your food scraps in a bucket (that they provide!!) and leave it on your porch on collection day + in the spring, you get compost BACK you can use for your garden 🧑‍🌾🥰 so you can make good choices for the planet while doing none of the work & ps this is literally not an ad, I’m just obsessed and we’ve been proud members of the crowd for a year 🌎

BIG NEWS: You’re Invited to Earth Day at Sedona Recycles! 🌍♻️ We’re officially opening our doors and we want you there to help us celebrate. Join us this Earth Day Wednesday, April 22, 2026 from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM in the parking lot of Sedona Recycles. All three of the Sedona Recycles founders – Kate Blevins, Sandy Moiarty, and Rayna Griffin– will be attending. We will have a formal ribbon cutting with the Sedona Chamber of Commerce from 12:00 to 12:30 PM. Then stick around for facility tours and see the new baler, local sustainability vendors, and refreshments provided by @chocolatree ! Attendees who donate at the event will even receive some fun Sedona Recycles–branded gifts. RSVP: Head over to the link in our bio and RSVP 🔗 Travel: Parking is limited—please carpool if you can! 🚴 Questions? Reach out via email or DM us on Instagram/Facebook for specific accommodations. We can’t wait to celebrate our shared commitment to a greener Sedona with you! 💚 #earthday2026 #sedonacares #sedonarecycles #recyclingevent

There’s quite a few new faces around here so we wanted to do a quick reminder post about our service area. 🗺️ 🛻 🪣 🌱 We do residential, commercial, and office collection in: 📍Flagaff city limits 📍Kachina Village - Mountainaire 📍Forest Highlands 📍Fort Valley 📍West Sedona 📍Village of Oak Creek 📍Uptown 📍Chapel Area 📍Red Rock Loop Road If you live in these areas of Northern AZ - we come to your neighborhood and would love to have you in the Crowd. Thinks of you if 🌎 you care about sustainability and the planet ♻️ you want to minimize waste and maximizing your environmental efforts (at home or at work!) 😖 it hurts you to put your kitchen scraps in a garbage bag destined for the landfill 😬you’ve tried composting at home and it didn’t work out or you simply don’t have time because: life Join the Crowd! Composting is 🆒 Link in bio or compostcrowd.com/residential #compostingiscool #flagstaffarizona #sedona #sedonaarizona composting localsustainability environmentalimpact

Sometimes it’s easy to feel powerless to influence positive change. What we love about composting is that it’s an extremely simple behavior shift that has a massive impact on the planet, our community, the atmosphere, soil quality, water use, and more. Keeping organic matter like kitchen scraps out of the landfill and returning them to the earth is one of the most powerful things a household, business, restaurant, events can do to increase their environmental responsibility in a meaningful way. Compost Crowd exists to make that habit as accessible as possible in Sedona and Flagstaff. You don’t have to build and maintain your own compositing project, you just have to put your banana peels in a @compostcrowd bin, and we do the rest 🫶🏻 We’ve got you. Join the Crowd ➡️ compostcrowd.com/residential or link in bio 🪣🌱. #compostingiscool #flagstaffaz #sedonaaz #compostable #foodscraps

We were honored to be recognized by the @flagstaffchamber with nominations for an ATHENA Award and the Flagstaff Green Business category. Though we didn’t win, it was an inspiring event meeting the remarkable women contributing to the community in a meaningful way. A big congratulations to @sarahmilios , @jkeeneaz and Caitlin Burd — the 2026 ATHENA awardees! To our beloved Crowd, never forget that these nominations are yours. We do this work WITH you and when Compost Crowd is being elevated in this way it is YOUR daily habit and commitment to food waste diversion and environmental sustainability that is being recognized. Thank you for contributing to making this the norm in northern Arizona at home, at work, in your restaurant kitchen, your flower shop, retreat center, school cafeteria, and events. 💚 big love!