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Goats, Chickens and Compost: Volunteering with Earth Matter on Governors Island

September 15, 2015

Earth Matter Chickens on Governors Island eat food scraps

I came for the chickens, bunnies, and baby goats. I stayed for the thirty-two thousand pounds of food scraps. The Earth Matter Compost Learning Center on Governors Island is an eco-educational oasis in the middle of New York Harbor. Through animal care, compost windrow builds, and now the [Read more...]

Save New York City Oysters

February 9, 2015

Oyster happy hour in New York City is the happiest hour of them all, but did you know that oysters are oysome beyond their tastetacular, aphrodesiacal, delight-by-the-bite decadence? Like all bivalves, oysters filter the water they live in with superhero efficiency. (I think of them as the [Read more...]