Gifts of Good Dirt
By Liz Brazile, YES! magazine
The majority of people interested in his soil generally have an affinity for growing their own food. He hopes to help others who might not — especially those who are food insecure.
Tag: composting
Your Trash is Your Luxury
By Carol Ramos, Future Perfect
Based on the concept “From Plate to Plate,” the Guandu Institute offers environmental solutions for large restaurants and seeks to inspire restoring the planet’s health. How? By composting organic trash, food preparation excess and leftovers, which go to landfills. Composting doesn’t only help to diminish the volume in landfills but it also produces fertilizer, such a fundamental resource for food production.
Valuing What Really Matters: A Look at Soil Currency
By Randall Coleman, Solutions Journal
Soil is a vital resource that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates contributes about USD $16.5 trillion in ecosystem services annually.
Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program
By Rebecca Nathanson, YES! magazine
The combination of BK Rot’s many aspects—creating green jobs for young people, raising local awareness about composting, and opening up public space—makes it a useful example of creatively addressing large-scale problems, even on a small scale.
How to Build a Compost Tea Brewer and Brew Tea
By Phil Williams, Peak Prosperity
Compost tea is a great way to magnify your compost by breeding the beneficial microorganisms and spraying them on your plants. Plants sprayed with high quality compost tea will be healthier, less affected by pests, and produce better fruits and vegetables.
Chicken Fortress, Hay Igloo
By Eric Krasnauskas, Science Pope
What’s a Hay Igloo? Basically it’s a large compost pile surrounded by hay bales and covered with a tarp.
The Ground Rules
By Shawndra Miller, Shawndra Miller blog
Meet “renegade researcher” Nancy Klehm. She’s on a mission to transform our thinking about waste—and to transform our waste into healthy soil.
The Roots of your Health: the Science of Soil
By Lynda Brown, Sustainable Food Trust
Earlier this year, US soil microbiologist Elaine Ingham, of Soil Foodweb Inc. fame, caused several gasps at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with her controversial lecture, ‘The Roots of your Profits’.
Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land
By Sven Eberlein, A World of Words
It seems pretty obvious that recycling, reusing, and repurposing materials we no longer need makes a lot more sense than burning or burying them, not just from an environmental, but an economic perspective.
Composting Coop Taps into the Unbroken Spirit of Rust Belt Cities
By Daniel Brown, Shareable
Today Cleveland boasts over 200 community gardens. I am proud to say I get to work with a handful of them in a unique way.
Why Bother Composting?
By Phil Williams, Peak Prosperity
Composting can seem pretty complicated. Depending on who you talk to, or what you read, you will find tons of different advice on how to get just the right “brew”.
Leading San Francisco’s Quest To Recycle All Trash by 2020
By Cheryl Katz, Yale Environment 360
San Francisco, the first urban area in the nation to mandate recycling and composting and begin outlawing items like Styrofoam food containers, aims to completely eliminate the trash it sends to landfills by 2020.