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.,
Food Tank
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system. The certified B-Corp brewery composts all organic waste and is working to reclaim runoff for crop irrigation. In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
JULY 10, 2023
It’s a cheaper and more climate-friendly alternative to trucking in compost from Vermont. Some Front Range farmers pay to truck in compost from Vermont. Instead of adding synthetic fertilizers or importing compost, Breiter is using Hedstrom’s mycelium to turn forest slash into organic soil that he can work into his degraded land.
ATTRA
APRIL 30, 2024
This biodigester project comes after years of biofuel research and experimentation by Steiman at the college. The liquid portion of the digestate is staged to be used as a nutrient source for the farm’s crop fields and compost piles. The digestate goes through a liquid removal process and can then be used for bedding in the barn.
Modern Farmer
JULY 14, 2023
The shells are used in cosmetics, as bedding for livestock and in biofuels. There are sheep grazing between the trees, cover crops of grasses and legumes, spot irrigation and increased composting. “The outer almond hull, which is over 50 percent of the weight of the almond, is sold as cattle feed,” he says. And guess what it replaces?
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