Closing the Loop: How Community Composting Builds a More Self-Sufficient Adirondacks

Closing the loop: How community composting builds a more self-sufficient Adirondacks - Dining and Cooking

A head of lettuce might be grown, sold and eaten entirely within the Adirondacks. Then, the half-eaten salad goes into the garbage, and a truck hauls it miles away. Meanwhile, farmers and gardeners buy their compost, fertilizer and other soil amendments at the local big box store to put nutrients back into the ground. We [...]

Closing the loop: How community composting builds a more self-sufficient Adirondacks

Composting provides communities throughout the Adirondacks with a full circle of growing healthy foods, without wasting scraps.