Learn About Composting in the Adirondacks
Join a community composting Q&A over Facebook Live.
Adirondack Black Gold — Nutrient rich compost.
The Cook Farm, a family farm in the Adirondacks practicing regenerative agriculture, is your host for an informative Q&A on composting. They are hosting the event via Facebook Live so that you can attend from anywhere.
Why compost?
The food system is too often a linear process:
When we rely on a linear food system:
An estimated 60 billion pounds of food waste ends up in the landfill each year
Farmers often have to rely on synthetic fertilizer (or organic fertilizer shipped in from afar)
The “start” (growing food) and the “end” (disposing of food waste) are disconnected
This disconnection indicates a broken system. If, instead, we build systems that look more like this:
Several Adirondack communities instituted compost projects, and they’ve delivered tangible results:
166,692 pounds of food waste composted each year (versus winding up in landfills)
22,337 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions prevented each year
7 Community-scale composting sites in the North Country
No one can deny the economic impact of composting. Demand for compost outweighs supply, creating jobs, delivering money to local economies, and more enhanced food and fiber production.
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