Farm to Plate’s Food Cycle Community of Practice has developed a resource for farmers looking to expand on-farm composting in collaboration with their local community. The guide, Partnering Farms with Communities - a regulatory and start-up guide for on-farm food scrap composting, aims...
Highfields Center for Composting is your partner in community composting. Our mission is to close the loop on community-based, sustainable food and agricultural systems, thus addressing soil health, water quality, solid waste, farm viability, and climate change. We research, educate, and provide...
Almost half the materials Americans discard—food scraps, yard trimmings, and soiled paper—are compostable. Municipal and county governments increasingly recognize the importance of composting. In fact, more than 250 communities have now instituted residential food scrap collection programs, up from...
Making great compost is an art. One of the key management techniques is how and when to turn your pile. This video shows you how, why, and when to turn your compost pile in order to make great compost and meet organic standards and PFRP.
Making great compost is an art. One of the key management techniques is monitoring your pile’s temperature and moisture, as well as visual and olfactory observations. This video shows you how, why, and when to monitor your compost pile in order to make great compost and meet organic standards...
Making great compost is an art. Learning how to accurately develop your own compost recipe using Highfields’ Recipe Calculator will provide you with an advanced tool in your production, research, or compost services. Also, our “Compost Recipe Development” video shows you how to create your own...
Making great compost is an art. Learning how to accurately develop your own compost recipe using Highfields’ Recipe Calculator will provide you with an advanced tool in your production, research, or compost services. This video shows you how to create your own analytically based composting recipe...
You can your wean your chickens off grain and produce more nutritious eggs by feeding your chickens on food scraps and compost. This video talks you through the things to think about in order to feed food scraps to your chickens effectively.
The Northeast Kingdom Residential Food Scrap Drop-Off pilot was a collaborative effort between Highfields Center for Composting (HCC) and the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District (NEKWMD). The purpose of this pilot project was to provide residents within the NEKWMD an easy, convenient method...
There are four primary monitoring practices that you should employ to one degree or another. These are: pile temperature, pile moisture content, pile odor, and a visual inspection of the site and piles. You’ll want to first read “Monitoring Compost Piles”. Then, print out the Composting...
