By Kaitlyn Pacheco
When Kenneth Moss was 6 years old, he grew his first tomato at the Filbert Street Community Garden. Now, a decade later, the Benjamin Franklin High student, pictured right, gives back to the soil with the Baltimore Compost Collective, a local service that collects food scraps from South Baltimore neighborhoods to create compost that fertilizes the Curtis Bay community garden.
The process is simple: Every Sunday, the collective’s 77 customers—scattered across Federal Hill, Riverside Park, Curtis Bay, and Locust Point—leave their food scraps in a bucket outside their home, which is picked up and replaced by Moss and fellow youth composters.
