Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. However, unlike synthetic fertilizers that provide readily available nitrogen, the nitrogen in organic fertilizers is released gradually through biological processes.

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Agriculture for Life

JUNE 30, 2020

Unlike many of my composting experiments, this is a traditional compost pile of alternating layers of carboniferous and nitrogenous materials. This simple compost pile can be set up anywhere in about an hour using local materials. Come back a few months later and harvest your compost! Get that nitrogen in there!

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

On an unseasonably sunny day in March, at a community garden in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, Dan Gross and Shaq Benn moved piles of wood chips and hosed down shoulder-high windrows of compost. Tucked underneath elevated train tracks, Know Waste Lands is the home base of the compost-hauling nonprofit BK Rot.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

This process constructs a healthy and wider root system for the plant, thus making it stronger. Water absorption and its utilisation is a major advantage of this process as well, which benefits the biotone fertiliser. Subsequently, a safe step for this fermentation is to use a windrow type for composting the biological waste.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

This process constructs a healthy and wider root system for the plant, thus making it stronger. Water absorption and its utilisation is a major advantage of this process as well, which benefits the biotone fertiliser. Subsequently, a safe step for this fermentation is to use a windrow type for composting the biological waste.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Composting Organic materials including agricultural residue such as corn stalks and rice hulls, weeds, manure, ash from cookstoves and kitchen waste, such as peels and eggshells, join to create rich, life-giving compost. The composting process creates an environment for decomposition.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

It’s a gradual process—sometimes it can feel slow, as many of us probably know!—that Last year, the city of Chicago launched a composting program that allows residents to drop off food scraps at 15 locations around the city, where they’re collected and turned into compost for soil. Just take food waste, for example.

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

This process converts biomass into biochar while capturing carbon that would otherwise be released as carbon dioxide (CO2) during decomposition. However, the pyrolysis process transforms the organic material into biochar, locking the carbon within its structure and preventing its release.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Food Tank

MAY 7, 2024

“By putting the shells back in the water where there is already an oyster population, so they are spawning, it is a regenerative process. They can have a home, a place to attach to,” Smith explains. Similar efforts in Chesapeake Bay show how supporting oyster habitats contributes to oyster population growth and healthier waters.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Byproducts of processed foods get tossed out on the manufacturing line. Another interesting part of the food waste discussion at the national level is that municipal composting programs are becoming more common. However, compost doesn’t count toward the SDG food waste reduction goals. It happens everywhere in our food system.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 6, 2024

It found that one of the items being thrown away the most was rotisserie chickens, so the store started repurposing unsold ones into hot bars before composting the rest. In the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment, signatories increased the percentage of unsold food that was composted by 28 percent and donated by 20 percent. “You

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

If you have them on a carbonaceous diaper (I describe this in detail in the book) they won’t smell and their manure will turn into wonderful compost for your house plants. That would certainly use all the compost from all the chickens in all the apartments eating all the food scraps on site. And you should have house plants.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Denali’s depackaging process enabled farmers to receive fertilizer and/or animal feed at no cost, saving them a minimum of $100 per acre. . ● Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5% of on-farm costs, with animal feed closely following at 15.5%.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our major goal is to support the ecosystem, heal nature, and be more attuned with nature’s processes,” says Bosch, who farms using organic and regenerative agricultural practices. “As Straw bales get bonus points because they can be composted after the growing season for future use as a natural fertilizer.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. “Depending on how strict the USDA inspector is, it can require the farm and the processing facility to update their HACCP plan just to capture something for us.” Farm Hounds jerky.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

Rating: / 5 Lomi Bloom composter Pela, a British Columbian company, claims its popular Lomi home composters can reduce a household’s food waste by 80 percent. The Lomi Bloom’s a countertop composter that uses heat and grinders to turn food waste into compost quickly and, supposedly, without too much stink.

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CalCAN

JUNE 21, 2023

The collective currently shares two mid-sized combine harvesters, one mini-combine harvester, a compost spreader, two seed cleaners, a berm flamer, a no-till drill, and a foliar spray trailer. These tools help their operations do tasks like harvest crops, apply compost, manage weeds, clean grain, plant cover crops, and apply compost tea.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

Otherwise edible grub goes uneaten at every stage of the food production process. In that same year, just 5 percent of food waste went to composting, despite the fact that nearly all of the waste has the potential to be composted. Why don’t we compost more? But it’s far more complex than that.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Plants welcome me in their leafy grace, As part of a process, essential to embrace. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. The same process is happening everywhere that plants grow. Did you spot the missing arrow?

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“I think about food a lot because I love to eat and value the effort and beauty of the growing process. Six years later, Soil Cycle has gone from Lewis picking up scraps from a few clients to six bikers transporting upwards of 60,000 pounds of compost per year. Biochar and NCAT’s SIFT Farm Episode 286. What is Biochar?

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of the above information, the food producer, manufacturer, or retailer will provide the cradle-to-gate information, from the growing of the food to its arrival at the retail establishment.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Developed by One Step Closer (OSC), the OSC Packaging Collaborative is working to remove petroleum-based plastics through the development and scaling of compostable and renewable alternatives. And Innovation in Supply Chain Waste Reduction focuses on waste reduction in the manufacturing or delivery process.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With greater plant diversity and organic matter, networks of microbes can create ample water and airflow at different depths in the process. To build sustainable soil structure with plenty of bacteria, fungi and protozoa, we made compost by processing kitchen scraps in a tumbler. The efforts have already been worth it, though.

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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. Drop Bear takes care of some of their energy needs with solar panels and uses excess heat generated during the brewing process to warm their buildings.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 7, 2023

Although the larger agency has historically focused on serving large-scale farmers in rural areas, it has granted more than $50 million since 2020 to build school and community gardens in Hawaii, expand residential composting in Fort Worth, Texas, and add hydroponic production to an urban farm in Dubuque, Iowa, among dozens of other projects.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

The breakthrough lies in the process of converting corn residue into bioplastics, a sustainable alternative to conventional petroleum-based plastics. Dow will support New Energy Freedom, a new Iowa facility that will process corn stover and produce commercial quantities of second-generation ethanol and clean lignin.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

Cabot not only recycles its processing waste at the farm, but it also purchases the bulk of the energy the co-digester produces through renewable energy credits, buying enough electricity to power its entire butter-processing operation. The heat from the digestion process produces a pathogen-free fiber.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Post a sign near the compost to remind you to log the turns and temperature checks. Purchased Soil Amendments of Animal Origin Requirement : for compost purchased, you obtain documentation showing the amendment was made following a scientifically valid process, as defined in 112.55(a)

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ATTRA

APRIL 8, 2024

In this video, Russell Hollander of Care2Grow Farm in Naples, Florida, guides us through the captivating journey of medicinal and gourmet mushroom cultivation, unveiling the intricate process from substrate to harvest. Explore the incredible potential of mushrooms and discover additional streams of income that mushroom production can offer!

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Packaged poop can take hundreds of years to break down, even in bags deemed compostable or biodegradable; certifications that are based on commercial composting conditions, not landfills—but US industrial composting facilities don’t accept pet waste. In the US, dog parks are catching on.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 7, 2023

These secondary products are generated during food processing and manufacturing and are often discarded—or underutilized. These by-products might seem like waste, but innovative processes can transform them into valuable resources. Nevertheless, potato peels are rich in polyphenols, compounds with antioxidant properties.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 30, 2024

Future posts will explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in meat processing, crop insurance, organic and sustainable agriculture research, and more. Urban farmers and community garden networks cultivate, process, and distribute food utilizing micro-scale and innovative production techniques.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These practices are diverse and can include growing efficiently in microlots or inside warehouses, food waste reduction strategies, and community composting. OUAIP implements strategies to ensure their success while fostering community food security through networks of growers, partners, and community members.

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Food Tank

APRIL 4, 2024

These include farming and gardening, composting, animal husbandry and processing, adobe construction, mud plastering, pottery, and weaving. “As It offers classes on how to lead healthy and sustainable lifestyles and facilitates seed saving and other cultural practices.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2024

If the answer is no, it’s better saved for the compost bin. If you want to be a nonprofit to be protected under legislation such as the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act , but the process is onerous for a group your size, you could see if a sponsorship would help. Would you choose that item? You’re in luck.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Companies often blend natural with plastic fibers, adding dyes and finishes, and blends are particularly hard to recycle because the components require different processes. Spiber’s Brewed Protein materials are produced through a fermentation process that utilizes sugars and microbes. Photo courtesy of Spiber Inc.)

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