This is an amazing set of videos on home composting that are short, to the point, and totally fascinating. I’d love to see 100% of all my friends composting kitchen and yard scraps. Its easy to do it right, and sure helps our gardens and houseplants stay happy!
Annie Hauck-Lawson, of FoodVoice.net shares a series of composting videos that are a must see.
Greetings,
If it may be useful for home and community garden compost education, I share six compost videos that we’ve created
over the past year (most of them shot due diagonally to Prospect Farm where I was happy to help with pulling the soil samples and bringing them to Brooklyn College for analysis).
Note here- the wooden frame that we made for the straw fort insert is available for give-away to any one/community garden that would like it for a cold frame/starting seeds.
The sixth, and newest, shows our design and construction of a three bin compost system at the Ft. Tilden NRA Community Garden. Using virtually all re-purposed material and our volunteer labor, this bin cost about $2.34;
SuperValu, which owns Albertson’s, announced recently that two grocery stores in Santa Barbara, Calif., have achieved zero waste classification in their daily operations.
How did they do it?
Simple, they went the extra mile with recycling, food donation program and organic composting.
The stores now divert all non-contaminated waste from landfills and incinerators. In total, over 95% of all waste products from both stores are recycled, reused or composted — exceeding the 90% threshold commonly recognized as zero waste.
What’s especially cool is that Albertson’s partnered with the City of Santa Barbara to establish one of the first citywide composting programs in the United States, which is a key piece of their waste diversion efforts. As a result of this program the city will compost 4,000,000 lbs. of foodscraps from 120 program participants this year alone. So kudos to each of the participants.
Another key component of the waste diversion program includes donating staple and perishable products that would otherwise go to waste for area food banks. Called the Albertsons Fresh Rescue Program, these two stores donate on average a total of 149,598 lbs. per year of food to the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County.
