Final Week for Food Scraps Composting at Farmers’ Markets

This is the final week for you to bring scraps to a farmers’ market drop-off site.

The sites will accept pumpkins, pumpkin innards from your carved jack-o-lanterns, coffee grounds, eggshells, and other husks, peelings, and so on from fruits and vegetables.

Where You Can Drop-off Scraps on Tuesday, October 28, 2025

From 4:00pm to 7:00pm, you can drop off food scraps at the Madison Eastside Farmers’ Market. The market can be found within McPike Park at 202 S. Ingersoll St.

From 2:00pm to 6:00pm you can drop off food scraps for free at the South Madison Farmers’ Market. You’ll find this market at the corner of S. Park Street and W. Wingra Drive near the Madison Labor Temple.

Where You Can Drop-off Scraps on Saturday, November 1, 2025

From 7am to 12:00pm you can drop off food scraps at the Westside Community Market. The market is located in the parking lots of 505 S. Rosa Rd. This is the Research Park area where Mineral Point Rd and S. Whitney Way intersect. 

Update on the Food Scraps Goal: It’s Going to Be Close! 

Our goal for 2025 is to collect 40,000 pounds of food scraps, which is roughly the weight of a small herd of bison.

As of the publication of this release, we have collected approximately 38,600 pounds of scraps for composting.

This means we are 1,400 pounds short of the goal. That’s less than one bison and we have one week to go.

We are so close. We can do this. 

Just round up your scraps and bring them to one of our sites so they can join the herd.

More Food Scraps Information

More information about food scraps, from prevention to composting, can be found on the City of Madison food scraps website.