C O M P O S T

Looking for a place to compost? You can also join Greene Acres as a composting member -- no meetings, no open hours, no obligations, you just get a place to bring your compost. If you help out by maintaining the bins and turning the compost, you can take a bit home for your own use. A compost membership is $5, which we use to pay for keys, signs, outreach and hardware. If you don't want your own key, you can bring compost by for free anytime the garden is open.

Compost Guidelines: Only add kitchen waste to the metal bins near the gate. Yard waste should go in the big open bins. Add your scraps and cover them with a layer of sawdust. Make sure you replace the lid--it keeps the rats out.

M E M B E R S H I P

Greene Acres is part of the New York Restoration Project, and we are a Greenthumb garden, which means that we are open to the public at least 10 hours a week during the spring, fall and summer. Everyone is welcome to stop in, drop off compost or sit and read under a tree when the garden is open. Children are always welcome, but they must be supervised.

Greene Acres is an organic garden -- we don't use chemical pesticides or fertilizer anywhere in the garden.

You must be a member of Greene Acres to have your own plot, but lots of people are members just so they can get into the garden whenever they want. Members are required to help maintain common areas, attend most monthly meetings, and open the garden from time to time. Membership costs $10 a year, but before you can join the garden you must complete six hours of garden work over at least two days during public hours. Once you have spent some time working in the garden you can join at any garden meeting. Once you are a member you can get on the waiting list for your own bed -- so far we have had enough beds for every active garden member who wants one, but if you don't have your own bed or don't have time to care for a whole bed yourself, 2/3 of the garden is set aside as common space that everyone can tend.

Taken from Greene Acres Community Garden Bylaws

Prospective garden members must complete 15 hours of garden work during open hours (if you cannot make open hours, contact a garden member to arrange another time to work). There is usually a list of things that need to be done, from picking up trash and pulling weeds, to filling the water barrels or watering the trees. Larger landscaping chores are also listed. Let the garden monitor know that you are working towards membership and have him/her write down your hours on the calendar in the shed.