Earth Matter NY

Compost Learning Center & Soil Start Farm

Open Weekends

Saturday	12:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Sunday	12:00 PM — 4:00 PM

Hours

Earth Mat­ter, the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island’s offi­cial com­post part­ner, process­es all of the food scraps and land­scape debris gen­er­at­ed on Gov­er­nors Island along with some Man­hat­tan res­i­den­tial col­lec­tions at their site. Much of this com­post is used here on Gov­er­nors Island. Vis­i­tors can vis­it on week­ends to learn about com­post­ing and maybe even meet some chickens.

Urban com­post­ing has dual pur­pos­es: divert­ing organ­ic waste from the land­fill and amend­ing exist­ing soil. The Soil Start Farm demon­strates how gar­den­ers can use read­i­ly avail­able mate­ri­als to cre­ate com­post to grow plants in urban soil conditions. 

Click here to sign up to vol­un­teer with Earth Mat­ter on Gov­er­nors Island.

Earth Mat­ter’s Com­post Learn­ing Cen­ter & Soil Start Farm is in a new loca­tion this year, locat­ed on the cor­ner of Craig Road South and Yeaton Road, next to the Com­mis­sary Building.

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