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Residential Food Scrap Drop-Off: Quick-Start Guide
A Guide to Home Composting
4 x 6 What to Compost Sheet
Close the Loop! Compost.
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...
Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting
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...
VIDEO: Compost Recipe Development
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...
VIDEO: Food Scraps for Chicken Feed
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.
Guide to Home Composting
Why should I compost? Food scraps make up one third of a typical household’s trash. When food scraps are sent to the landfill, they take up space in our limited landfills and contribute to increased production of methane and toxic leachate. If all the food scraps in Vermont were composted instead...
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