December #2025

As we close out 2025, we want to pause and say thank you.

This year marked an important chapter as we began building the infrastructure for UFO Palm Springs, the Urban Farm of Palm Springs. At the heart of this work is a straightforward truth: community composting is the foundation of everything we are growing.

Through local partnerships and hands-on operations, we composted:

Every pound of compost produced stayed local. All of it is now being used to build soil, test crops, and understand what can and will work in desert urban farm conditions.

This is not theoretical work. This is field testing, soil building, and learning by doing.

In addition to compost operations, we delivered hands-on composting and soil education workshops at schools and community events, supporting learning through on-the-ground infrastructure.

This work would not exist without partners who believed in keeping resources local.

We are deeply grateful to partners like La Cafe Jefa, Nature’s Store, Canyon Creek Mushrooms, and a local orange juice farmer from the farmers market, who generously allowed us to collect their food scraps at no cost.

We want to be transparent. There are real legal and operational complexities surrounding organic-waste hauling and compensation. We absorbed those costs because we believe in building systems that work first, then scaling them responsibly. No, we never charge our partners for collecting their materials for our operations.

This is community composting in practice.

This work represents the other side of Prema’s Permaculture & Composting.

Food waste becomes compost.
Compost becomes soil.
Soil becomes food, education, and economic opportunity.

Community-scale composting can do more than reduce waste. When intentionally supported, it can serve as the foundation for urban farms, gardens, workforce development, and local resilience.

Cities can invest in these systems, earn diversion and procurement credits, and support local operators who turn compost into living infrastructure.

To our supporters, partners, lifelong learners, advisors, and community members, thank you for trusting this work, supporting it, and growing alongside us.

2025 was about building the base.
2026 will be about strengthening, expanding, and sharing what we are learning.

With gratitude,
Prema Walker
Prema’s Permaculture & Composting
UFO Palm Springs, Urban Farm of Palm Springs

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