When I asked Compost for Good cofounder John Culpepper “why compost?” he gave me the simplest answer—he pointed to his granddaughter, Rowan. A blonde toddler on her mother’s lap, Rowan chomped on a cucumber bigger than her arm. Rowan’s mother, Compost for Good cofounder Katie Culpepper, helped her daughter navigate the vegetable while elaborating on John’s answer.
“Composting is at the intersection of so many things,” she said. “We all eat, and we’re all part of the food system whether we acknowledge it or not. Composting is one way to empower yourself within that system. The environmental movement is always framed around this question of how humans can do less bad, but we’re asking: what if we have the capacity to do more than that, to actually do good, by regenerating the food systems in our communities now, so that
