Want to produce more finished compost for your community garden and improve your garden’s soil? Join Earth Matter/NYC Compost Project and GreenThumb as they tour the Earth Matter composting system on Governor’s Island and learn advanced composting techniques, such as forced aeration and browns recipe from fellow gardeners and compost experts.  They will discuss ways to shorten the nutrient cycle and turn waste into black gold. These techniques will enable you to take your composting system to the next level.

Earth Matter accepts and processes food scraps as part of the NYC Compost Project Local Organics Recovery Program, funded by the NYC Department of Sanitation.

Note: Please allow extra time for travel. In order to make it in time, you will need to take the ferry to Governor’s Island by 11 a.m.

Please RSVP.