One man’s trash is another an’s treasure. We’ve all heard this saying before, but John-Paul Maxfield is acting on it. At Waste Farmers, John-Pauls takes city food scraps that were once thrown away, and composts them into top-quality soil amendments for Denver growers.
Transforming City Food Waste into Profit with John-Paul Maxfield of WasteFarmers
By Luke Miller Callahan, originally published by Groaction
March 13, 2012
Tags: Food, Waste
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