Modern Farmer

MARCH 15, 2024

Rentsch does this work for Soil Cycle , a compost-based nonprofit. Not only do Soil Cycle’s staff pick up the food scraps, but a few times a year, its customers can pick up the end result: compost for their home gardens. “I ” A few times a year, Soil Cycle is able to give the actual compost back to the customers. “We’re

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Compost is of high value in agriculture and horticulture for improving soil structure and water retention property of the soil and for supplying plant

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ATTRA

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Compost Reimbursement Program is a grant program that reimburses Washington farmers who purchase compost from eligible commercial facilities in the state. Participating farms are eligible for 50% reimbursement on qualifying costs including compost purchases and associated transportation, equipment, and labor costs.

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Food Tank

MARCH 26, 2024

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently announced budget cuts that include the elimination of funding for community composting programs. The New York City Compost Project is a partnership between the City of New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and community organizations. In 2022 alone, the organization diverted almost 2.7

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Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

For example, there is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) with more than 80,000 head of cattle and an associated compost operation in proximity to some of the produce production areas studied. [ What a surprise ]. The investigation’s findings “STEC [Shiga toxin-producing E.

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Food Tank

JULY 17, 2024

Table2Farms is working to expand the scale of composting projects across the United States to reduce methane emissions, regenerate soil, and inspire organizations and individuals alike to compost. T he organization believes that the first step in achieving this vision is to support composting projects that already exist.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 17, 2024

Northeast Roundup: NJ Manure Link events set; sponsors wanted for summer Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance field days.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too. For takeout, she uses compostable containers and wooden silverware. Some workers are taking matters into their own hands.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 4, 2023

Washington will distribute $1 million to encourage the practice.

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Civil Eats

MAY 14, 2024

The mayor's budget cuts will eliminate a 30-year-old program that achieved much more than reducing food waste.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Program helps repurpose waste, reduce methane emissions.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 27, 2024

Attend this fall field day to learn about the benefits of biochar and compost as soil carbon amendments. Whitefeather Organics will provide a tour of their farm where they're currently using a biochar reactor, and Bucket Ruckus compost service, serving the City of Stevens Point, will share information about their composting process.

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American Farmland

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

HealthySoilsWeek2024 #healthysoils cc: @CDFAnews @GemperleFarms #compost #biochar Learn how a circular economy can build healthy soil, reduce waste and increase climate resilience in California.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. The compost created from ground-up walnut prunings and cover crop mowings.

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Caff

JUNE 3, 2022

Spreadwing Farm, located in the Capay Valley, utilizes compost in their vegetable crops to improve the quality of the soil and provide plant available nutrients. Learn more about the benefits, tradeoffs, and challenges Liz Schroeder of Spreadwing Farm has seen with compost application. Read the case study here.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 11, 2023

Deconstructing Moche history, society and culture through compost and struggle meals. Finding lost apples in New England. Now to market them. Taking new passion fruit varieties to market in Australia. No sign of markets. Reviewing the state of agroecology in Africa. Does “economic diversification” count as marketing?

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Jayson Lusk

MARCH 6, 2023

Given the lack of harmonization and potential public confusion around terms used to describe the bioeconomy, a survey was designed to to determine consumer knowledge, beliefs, and preferences for the following 10 terms: biobased, biodegradable, bioeconomy, bioplastics, biopolymer, circular economy, compostable, organic, plant-based, and recyclable.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Soil health refers to the ability of soil to function as a living ecosystem that supports plants, animals, and humans. Healthy soil is crucial for agriculture,

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RR2CS

MARCH 29, 2022

Topic: Biochar, Compost, and Agroforestry – Three Keystones of Soil and Climate Resilience for Alberta Date: May 4th at 1:00PM Presenter: Rob Lavoie of AirTerra Cost: FREE Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that is made by burning organic material from agricultural and food wastes. Want to prepare for the webinar?

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CalCAN

MAY 29, 2024

We invited several local experts and state Assemblymember Damon Connelly to learn from each other and discuss how to support family dairy farms The post North Coast Dairies Reduce Methane, Produce Compost & Improve Soil Health appeared first on CalCAN.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

During her internship with USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Albany, California, Huang focused on the policy aspects of recent state legislation regarding composting and food packaging. “I I connected with the overall end goal to reduce waste,” she said. “I

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ATTRA

MAY 6, 2024

International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is the largest and most comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry, celebrated May 5-11, 2024. The goal of ICAW is to work together to raise public awareness on why we all should be composting our organics and using compost to create healthier soil.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

USDA offers tips for composting manure to help farmers come up smelling like roses.

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

On an unseasonably sunny day in March, at a community garden in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, Dan Gross and Shaq Benn moved piles of wood chips and hosed down shoulder-high windrows of compost. Tucked underneath elevated train tracks, Know Waste Lands is the home base of the compost-hauling nonprofit BK Rot.

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ATTRA

JULY 2, 2024

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, under the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production, is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants to host a Composting and Food Waste Reduction pilot project. The agency expects to award a total of approximately $7.8

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ATTRA

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is launching a Compost Reimbursement Program to encourage on-farm compost use. Producers must first apply to and be approved for the program, ensuring that their business and compost source are eligible. Related ATTRA publication: How to Add Compost on Your Small Farm

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. Ammonium nitrogen can be lost quickly through ammonia volatilization if manure or compost is not incorporated into the soil shortly after application. Swine Manure : Typically has 20-35% of total nitrogen as ammonium nitrogen.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Virginia farmer Nicky Schauder, of Permaculture Gardens in Virginia, received a two-year Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Producer Grant to support testing aerated compost tea as a fertility source for organic farming. Project results are available online from Southern SARE.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Compost as a last resort We love compost. But, ideally, you are composting the parts of your food that can’t be used for something else. Roe says that research has suggested that, for some people, reducing food waste upstream and composting the scraps can be complementary attributes of a conscious consumer.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

These collaborations have provided snapshots of how practices like compost, cover crops, livestock integration and reduced tillage (to name a few) can impact soil health on a given farm in a given region.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The study reports that compared with landfilling food, composting generates 38 percent to 84 percent less methane. Key factors for success may include clarity of the law, investment in composting infrastructure, and policy enforcement. It was surprising to find that several of these laws do not seem to be working. .”

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Caff

AUGUST 7, 2023

In this episode we delve into all things on-farm composting, from its production to its use and relevant agricultural policies. We hear from Abel Ruiz at CRECE Farming Collective in Santa Ana about their use of various composting methods at a small scale.

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Ohio State University

MAY 14, 2024

AEDE Professor Elena Irwin spoke on the panel, describing “doughnut economics” – providing for humanity’s needs within finite planetary boundaries and resources – with fellow panelists from Advanced Drainage Systems, Compost Clubhouse, and Rumpke Waste & Recycling. “We

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

Last year, the city of Chicago launched a composting program that allows residents to drop off food scraps at 15 locations around the city, where they’re collected and turned into compost for soil. When I look out at the state of the food system, I see so much that’s going well. Just take food waste, for example.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Another interesting part of the food waste discussion at the national level is that municipal composting programs are becoming more common. However, compost doesn’t count toward the SDG food waste reduction goals. Compost, if managed properly through the integration of oxygen, will not create such high levels of methane.

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