by Content | Apr 6, 2015 | Rot Stars
Milo, son, and Ayun, mom, happened to wander by the Compost Outpost one summer day in 2013, and by the following season they were regular volunteers at Earth Matter’s Friday work days. They brought with them smiles to light up a cloudy midnight sky! Milo immediately...
by Content | Apr 2, 2015 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
These are the type of spores that we incorporated in Mushroom Village last autumn. This image was created by user Ann B. (Ann F. Berger) at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images. You can contact this user here. By Bill Koehnlein We revere them; we’re...
by Content | Apr 2, 2015 | Previous Featured Article
Last fall, a team from the organization Just Food joined us at Earth Matter’s Compost Learning Center on Governors Island to lay down a “mushroom bed”, or spawn bed. We spoke to Just Food’s Jorge Cubas about what it means to create a mushroom bed, and what can be...
by Content | Apr 2, 2015 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
By Bill Koehnlein The statistics are in and it turns out that this past February has been the coldest one New York City has seen since 1934, and the fourth coldest on record. Even penguins couldn’t take it anymore and sought shelter wherever they could find it. So it...
by Content | Apr 2, 2015 | Rot Stars
The first time Emmie Campbell, a high school sophomore, showed up at Earth Matter’s Center was on a Friday volunteer day, near the end of summer 2013, introduced to us by her mom, Lori Nelson. Lori has an intimacy with GI as a core member of one of our Island Partners...
