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A Little Scrappy. A Lot of Heart.

Scrappy Soil Composting Collective was started by Ryan McGuire and Olivia Boucher, two Granville neighbors, community cheerleaders, and parents who are raising their kids to care for their community, protect the planet, and believe in their power to shape the future.

For Ryan and Olivia, caring isn’t something you just talk about. Caring means taking action. It means showing their kids that when they see something that could be better, they don’t have to wait for someone else to fix it. They can be the ones who step forward, bring people together, and lead the way toward positive change.

Big change doesn’t require a big beginning. Sometimes it starts with one person deciding to take action, a neighbor willing to join in, and grows into an entire community realizing how much good we can accomplish when we act together.

That’s exactly how Scrappy Soil began.

Small Buckets. Big Impact.
A parent and child holding a freshly harvested plant

Small Buckets. Big Impact.

Every day, perfectly good food scraps from our community get tossed into the trash and hauled away to a landfill. We started asking ourselves: What can we do to help fix this gap in recycling right here in Granville?

The answer was pretty simple: make composting easier and more accessible for our neighbors. Not by asking everyone to build a compost pile, buy a pitchfork, study carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, or become a person who gets unusually excited about worms. Instead, we could make composting simple, clean, local, and easy enough for everyone in our community to recycle their food waste.

That became Scrappy Soil.

We give you a bucket. You fill it with food scraps. Every other week, we pick it up from your doorstep and swap it for a clean one. Your scraps stay out of the landfill and get a second life as local compost.

One household and one five-gallon bucket might not feel like much. But hundreds of Granville households doing it together? Now we’re getting somewhere. Just 1,500 neighbors composting their food scraps could help keep more than 500,000 pounds of food waste out of landfills each year.

We’re raising our kids right here in Granville, and we want to show them that they have the power to take action and make a real, positive impact on their community, their planet, and their future.

You don’t have to solve an enormous problem all at once. Find something you can make better. Start small. Invite your neighbors. And get to work.

Sometimes that work just happens to involve a bucket full of banana peels.

With love,
Olivia, Kai, Logan, Ryan, Susan & Bella

Want to Get Involved?

We’re always excited to connect with fellow Granvillians who share our love for this community and our planet. Building and maintaining a community-wide composting program takes a lot of hands, ideas, and support.

Whether you’re a neighbor, local business, organization, educator, or just someone who wants to get a little scrappy with us, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we have an opportunity to make Granville a role model for other communities looking to build a more sustainable future.

Have an idea? Want to help? Let’s get scrappy.

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