Community Composting Education

During the summer months of 2011, the Earth Matters ECO Centre was offering valuable, accessible composting education to the community of Nelson.  We were  “on location” at the weekly Wednesday Baker Street Markets and Saturday Cottonwood Park Farmer’s Markets, and monthly Friday night Marketfests.  We had a booth where people could find out about how to start composting in their household or find out how to fix their existing compost system. Learn more…

Earth Matter ECO Centre

The Earth Matters ECO Centre was an exciting  social enterprise that was  developed to address important social, environmental and economic goals in our community. Learn more…

Community Composting

Community Composting (C3) was an expansion of our two year Urban Composting Project.  The social enterprise endeavor was funded by Enterprising Non-Profits. The goal was for the  business will provide compost pick up services to all Nelson residents as well as providing the finished compost for sale. Earth Matters looked into a mechanized facility being  constructed to aerate the piles and increase the rate of microbial activity, taking only 4 weeks to transform from food waste to usable soil. The business aimed to employ youth and persons with disabilities where ever possible. Learn more…