A hauling company
with a community organization behind it.
NYC S.C.R.A.P.S. collects food scraps from small businesses in Brooklyn and Manhattan and takes them to a community compost site in South Brooklyn. It is run by Earth Stewards Enterprises LLC, and it exists because of the organization that came first.
Earth Stewards Enterprises is a woman-owned business.
Earth Stewards NYC
Two organizations, one purpose, and a deliberate line between them.
Earth Stewards NYC is a volunteer community working on land stewardship in South Brooklyn. It runs hands-on environmental education in schools and community spaces, and it works through urban farming, composting, volunteerism and land restoration to turn vacant lots, private lawns and underused ground into something that feeds people.
Its volunteers work the community compost site your buckets go to. Every pound we collect is weighed at your door, hauled there, and turned into compost that goes back out to community and school gardens, street tree beds, and parks across the city.
The organization also needs numbers: tonnage by neighborhood, participant counts, service dates. Those figures are what workforce development and education grants are won with, and they come straight out of the weights recorded on your stops. Your food scraps do two jobs at once.
“I dream of neighborhoods in South Brooklyn and communities across the country where land stewardship is a shared responsibility, where urban spaces are transformed into thriving, biodiverse ecosystems that nourish both people and the planet.”
Earth Stewards Enterprises LLC is the business. It takes payment, runs the van, and answers to its customers. The volunteer stewardship work and the education programs run alongside it, and the compost site is where the two meet.
The partners
Two people, and the reason the hauling and the stewardship sit under one roof.
Jade founded Earth Stewards NYC and is dedicated to stewardship, holding Super Steward, Pathkeeper, Master Composter and Urban Gardening credentials from NYC Parks, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Natural Areas Conservancy and the NYC Compost Project.
She is a passionate educator working with children and adults, holding space for holistic learning, creative expression and climate conversation through the Climate Cafés she hosts.
Her work is about redefining how urban land gets used: vacant lots, private lawns and underused ground turned into sources of nourishment and regeneration, through individual and collective action, policy advocacy, and getting people’s hands in the soil.
Sam is a business strategist and operator, recognized by City & State New York in its Tomorrow’s Leaders class of 2026 and spotlighted by the Association for a Better New York.
He grew up in Rockaway Park in a family of small businesses, doing routes around the city for family HVAC, produce and candy businesses. He scaled an ice cream brand into Whole Foods and Sprouts nationwide, and ran food relief programs across the city. He is a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alum, founder of Full Value Potential, a strategic development practice in New York, an advisor at Urban Strategies, a civic-minded government affairs consulting firm, a member of NY LCV Emerging Leaders Steering Committee, a member of ABNY YP Associates, and a member of Building Congress.
Why we say Earth steward
We do not call them drivers. An Earth steward is anyone doing the work of caring for the Earth in the place they live, and on any given week that is the same handful of people doing very different things. Collecting food scraps and returning them to the soil. Watering and weeding a street tree bed. Turning a pile at the compost site. Planting a tree. Teaching a class of eight-year-olds what a worm does. Growing food in a community garden.
Those are not separate programs that happen to share a name. They are one loop. Scraps from a kitchen become compost that goes into a tree bed in Marine Park, and the person who picked up the bucket may well be the person who spreads it. So the title follows the work.
When an Earth steward is at your door on your service day, that is what they are in the middle of.
The name
Sustainable Circular Resource And Processing Systems
Circular is the operative word. A bucket goes out clean, comes back full, gets weighed, and what was in it comes back to the city as soil. About 25 lbs at a time, on a fixed route, at a price you can see before you call anyone.
EARTH STEWARDS ENTERPRISES