Dave Lutz proudly shows off the Backyard Community Garden where he's been planting and landscaping with dozens of other Brooklynites for 20 years. They even do their own composting.

But it's about to get better now that the garden has had its first delivery of nutrient-rich, organic compost, made from horse manure produced in Brooklyn.

Ten bags of the manure were dropped off here by John Quadrozzi, the owner of the only remaining stable in the Prospect Park area, Brooklyn Equine, formerly known as Kensington Stables.

"His manure is filled with nitrogen and other nutrients that we need in this garden badly," said Lutz, who is the acting coordinator of the garden."His manure is filled with nitrogen and other nutrients that we need in this garden badly," said Lutz, who is the acting coordinator of the garden.

Quadrozzi rescued the stables after it fell into bankruptcy almost two years ago. He says the horse manure had been trucked upstate to be composted but over the past year he's experimented with a process to do it right here in Brooklyn.

"The more frequent you turn the material the more rapidly it digests,” Quadrozzi said. “And it also stops us from countering the noxious issues like rodents and flies. Because they just don't create a habitat there. As long as the material is turning. "

The manure gets scooped up at the Equine Center along with hay and wooden shavings from the floor. It's put in bins and brought to the Gowanus Bay Terminal bulk handling facility in Red Hook where it's piled up and turned into compost.

"The heat that's generated from the decomposition, which is a rapid rate because it's manure, breaks down the material and becomes a compost. We're not adding lime or anything like that to accelerate," said Quadrozzi.

Quadrozzi has even trademarked a name for his product: hoof harted, which is also the name of a race horse. He says he's committed to donating the compost. And the Backyard Community Garden was one of the first recipients.

"It will become fresh carbon materials which is the basis of all life," said Lutz.

In the coming weeks, Quadrozzi says he plans to connect with another dozen or so community gardens to deliver compost.

For more information on the project, email be@quadrozzi.com.