1. Yes, you can bring your food scraps to Long Table Farm. We will compost them on site! Then we use the compost to grow more plants and improve the health of our soil.

2. Hours for drop off are Wednesday-Saturday, dawn to dusk.

3. Composting buckets are available at Town Hall during normal business hours.

4. After you drop off your food only scraps, please cover them with the carbon provided, usually leaves however sometimes wood chips.

FAQ’s

Q1. I don’t live in Lyme, can I still compost with you?

A1. Yes, and it’s still free. Please observe our hours of operation.

Q2. I did not buy a bucket, can I still compost with you?

A2. Yes, and it’s still free. Please bring your food scraps in any vessel you like.

Q3. Are you open in the winter?
A3. Yes, our farm operates year round and so does our composting program.

Q4. Is it really all food? I’ve composted in the past and they said not to bring certain things.

A4. Yes, it’s everything that is food. No packaging please, even if it says it’s compostable.

Q5. Why no packaging?

A5. Some compostable materials don’t actually break down in composting systems. Some of them have plastic liners. The organic certification standards don’t allow them, and we want our compost to be OMRI listed soon.

Also, visually, compostable packaging looks like trash. Someday we hope that manufactures of compostables will share their ingredient’s list with OMRI, so it can be allowed in our compost. We are not there yet as an industry.

Q6. Where can I buy one of those spiffy buckets?

A6. Lyme Town Hall normal business hours. See the first select person.

Learn more about what kids in our town are already doing about food scraps:

Lyme Consolidated Composting