ILSR’s On-Farm Composting & Compost Use Webinar Series features experts from across the industry and covers the ins and outs of on-farm composting and compost use. In the third of the series, Composting Recipes & Integrating Food Scraps, James McSweeney will be presenting. James is a composting consultant, educator, and author of Community-Scale Composting Systems, a comprehensive designer’s and practitioner’s manual for food scrap composters. In this webinar, James will discuss compost recipe development using common farm inputs, feedstock sourcing & handling, estimating site throughput and best management practices for handling & composting food scraps.
Speaker: James McSweeney
Through his work at the Highfields Center for Composting and current consultancy, Compost Technical Services, James has worked with hundreds of composters, large and small, on everything from site planning, design, and management to compost heat recovery and livestock feeding systems. He co-authored Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting with Brenda Platt of ILSR, and has been an ardent proponent and collaborator in the community composting movement in the United States. With a background in agroecology and permaculture, restoring ecological integrity to our local farm and food systems is at the heart of James’s work.
Join the webinar on:
October 5, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 pm ET
The registration fee for this webinar is $20. Participation in this series is free for farmers.
(use code FARMER)
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A recording of the webinar will be made available to those who register.
