Home-made compost can be used to feed your home-grown vegetables
Compost
- Compost, mulch and wood chips are often available to Princeton Residents at the Joseph H. Maher Ecological Facility at 3107 Princeton Pike (Monday through Friday 7:30 am to 2:30 pm).
- Making compost. Instructions (310KB pdf) for building a compost bin from old pallets. Also includes tips on how to use it to make compost.
Leaves
Compost them on your lot, or have them collected.
Brush
Piles of mall branches and twigs are collected a few times per year from curbside. There are limits on the size of wood that will be picked up. For more details see the collection schedules for the Township and the Borough.
Princeton residents can drop off brush, leaves and grass clippings at the Joseph H. Maher Ecological Facility, 3107 Princeton Pike (Monday through Friday 7:30 am to 2:30 pm).
Vegetable gardening
- Lawn to Food teaches teaches residents the steps to turning their lawn into vegetable gardens. Provides expertise, kits, plants and seeds.
- Princeton School Gardens Cooperative (PSGC) fosters garden- and food-based education in the classroom, cafeteria and community. The group has created gardens at every Princeton public school.
More
Here’s a list of articles on house and yard (some of them contributed by guest authors) elsewhere on this site.