Earth Matter NY

Earth Matter NY piloted the Lavender Field located on Governors Island at the South Battery. The Lavender Field aims to provide a healing space for the earth and ourselves, utilizing compost created on Governors Island from resident food scraps generated in NYC. The field provides ongoing volunteer opportunities to learn how to tend lavender and participate in healing practices such as yoga and meditation.

We also are piloting the collection of oyster shell from the new restaurant on Governors Island, Island Oyster. We endeavor to collect and cure shells for our island partner, the Billion Oyster Project (BOP) Shell Collection Program. This oyster shell recovery initiative reinforces Earth Matter’s mission of raising New Yorkers’ awareness on urban ecology, circular economy, and the importance of individual responsibilities for taking care of our planet.

The Lavender Field and the Island Oyster shell collection program aim to become part of Earth Matter’s ongoing educational dialogue with citizens about the concept of zero waste and the closed loop of organic materials, where all organic waste is simply a link among other interconnected ecological processes.