Vertical Gardening - Here Soon

We will have the first shipment of Vertical Gardens arriving soon. You can grow herbs and produce indoors taking up little space and grow your produce vertically! It is a stackable design so you can grow as high as you like placed on the floor or hung from the roof or any other location of your choice.

Along with the floor and hanging Vertical Garden system we will be getting in new Vertical Gardens for your walls. You can install these innovative gardening systems on any wall and transform the wall into a 'living' wall. Then you grow your produce indoors and pick and eat when you like. A drip feed watering system is included.

We'll update the blog with news of when they arrive in our downtown Nelson store as well as our online store.

Composting Guide

An excellent Composting Guide, http://www.greencalgary.org/resources/composting/ with instructions on how to make various compost bins easily and inexpensively.

ECO STORE IS NOW OPEN!

The Earth Matters ECO Store officially opened for business on Saturday, December 5, 2009. We are located 410B Hall Street in downtown Nelson, BC, behind the New Grand Hotel. We are excited about this new venture and the many ways it can serve the community.
The ECO Store carries four practical, innovative and earth-friendly product categories: an all-natural, all-purpose cleaning concentrate – bottled and branded locally, a variety of indoor and outdoor composting solutions, vertical and indoor gardening systems, and water cooler and filtration options for the home and office.  
   

Earth Rescue

From 1998 to 2006 Earth Matters ran the Fruit Tree Project, which connected Nelson and area fruit tree owners who couldn't harvest all their fruit with community members who could use the fruit. In 2007, Harvest Rescue continues the work of that project but has expanded to include gleaning from backyard gardens and local farms.

This year, between July and November, Harvest Rescue will coordinate volunteers to pick fruits and vegetables that would otherwise end up as compost or bear bait, and distribute them among social service agencies in our region. Later in the summer Harvest Rescue will host community food preservation workshops.

We are a volunteer driven project. Our goal is to increase access for everyone to fresh, locally grown food, as well as reduce waste, the potential for bear-human conflict and our reliance on food requiring long-haul transportation. We hope this project will encourage local food sourcing and greater community support for our local farmers.

Harvest Rescue is a joint project of Earth Matters and the Nelson Food Cupboard Society. In 2007 it is overseen directly by the www.foodcupboard.org and funded by a Columbia Basin Trust youth grant.

For more information for Pickers and Fruit Tree/Garden Owners click here. There are also updated resources available for download here.