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Are you a community composter or farmer wanting to learn more about using and selling compost from your operation? Hear how to read a compost lab test and what constitutes high-quality compost. This webinar will also feature a panel of community-based composters who distribute and\/or sell their compost for specific uses.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n","authors_tax":[601]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Are you a community composter or farmer wanting to learn more about using and selling compost from your operation? Hear about how to read a compost lab test and what constitutes high-quality compost. This webinar<\/a> also featured a panel of community-based composters who distribute and\/or sell their compost for specific uses. It is one in a series the Institute for Local Self-Reliance offers to support a distributed and diverse composting infrastructure that includes community-scale and on-farm composting. Participation is free for farmers and for members of the <\/span>Community Composter Coalition<\/span><\/a>!<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n

The live webinar took place on: December 14th, 2021<\/span><\/h4>\r\n

Watch the Recording<\/a><\/h3>\r\n \r\n\r\nThis webinar is one in a series the Institute for Local Self-Reliance offers to support a distributed and diverse composting infrastructure that includes community-scale and on-farm composting. <\/span>\r\n\r\nFor more information on our On-Farm Composting webinar series, click <\/span>HERE<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\r\n\r\nTo view and listen to our past composting-related webinar recordings, click <\/span>HERE<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n \r\n

PANELISTS<\/b><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"J<\/b>ohn Spargo, PhD<\/b>\r\n\r\nDirector, Penn State\u2019s Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory<\/a> (University Park, Pennsylvania)<\/span>\r\n\r\nPenn State\u2019s Agricultural Analytical Services Lab is a US Composting Council STA Compost-Certified Laboratory, that provides extensive compost sample testing. Dr. Spargo will cover the importance of compost testing for characterizing the beneficial physical and chemical properties of a compost, as well as for identifying potential problems with compost use. He will also briefly discuss how to read test results and the good and bad indicators of compost quality.<\/span>\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"\"Michael Martinez<\/b>\r\n\r\nFounder & Executive Director, LA Compost<\/a> (Los Angeles)\r\n\r\nMichael is a certified Master Gardener, a former elementary school teacher, and the Founder and Executive Director of LA Compost, a nonprofit working to restore lost connections to the soil and one another. LA Compost currently has 5 Regional Compost Hubs in partnership with food recovery organizations, local drop-off participants, and a farmers market drop-off program. Michael has over 8 years of experience building gardens and compost systems throughout the County of Los Angeles as well as other parts of the country. Michael has grown LA Compost from a group of volunteers collecting organics with bikes to a decentralized network of community compost hubs that span across the most populated county in the country.<\/span>\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"\"Shaq Benn<\/b>\r\n\r\nOperations Specialist, BK ROT<\/a> (New York City)<\/span>\r\n\r\nShaq joined BK ROT in 2019 as the Operations Assistant after completing high school at Bushwick Campus Academy, a long-time partner of BK ROT in recruitment. Since joining BK ROT, Shaq has grown in leadership. He currently manages the final stages of BK ROT\u2019s compost, including sifting, managing storage, and compost distribution. Shaq also supports programming, BK ROT workshops and the Youth Leaders program. Shaq is from Guyana, is studying at CUNY, and loves calculus.<\/span>\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"\"Molly Lindsay\r\n<\/b>Director of Operations, Hudson Soil Co.<\/a> (New York)<\/b>Molly Lindsay is the Director of Operations at the Community Compost Company and Hudson Soil Company, a women-owned food scrap collection service and compost manufacturer based in the Hudson Valley of New York and Northern New Jersey. Molly has been with the company since 2014, its first year of business. She oversees general company operations, new programs, sales and marketing.\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"\"Terry Craghead<\/b>\r\n\r\nWorker-Owner & President, Fertile Ground Cooperative<\/a> (Oklahoma City)\r\n\r\nTerry is a founding member of Fertile Ground, a worker-owned cooperative, which is selling a variety of compost-related products and services including compost filter socks. Terry oversees business development of the cooperative and is currently focusing on development of a new composting facility. Beginning in 2017, in an effort to expand the market for compost products, Fertile Ground introduced the first locally produced compost filter socks in Oklahoma. Terry will share Fertile Ground\u2019s experience manufacturing and marketing compost filter socks from a community composting perspective.\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"\"Brenda Platt, Moderator <\/b>\r\n\r\nDirector, Composting for Community Initiative, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (Washington, DC.)\r\n\r\nBrenda and her team at <\/span>ILSR<\/span><\/a> are supporting community-scale composters via forums, webinars, podcasts, guides, policies, trainings, and more. In 2017, the US Composting Council awarded her its H. Clark Gregory Award for outstanding service to the composting industry through grassroots efforts. In 2019, BioCycle magazine featured Brenda as one of its organics recycling trailblazers. She has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from The George Washington University.<\/span><\/b><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n \r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nFeatured Image Credits (clockwise from top left): Hudson Soil Co. bagged compost (www.hudsonsoil.com), Fertile Ground Compost \u201cveggie garden compost\u201d and compost filter sock (www.fertilegroundok.coop); BK ROT compost (www.bkrot.org); LA Compost garden produce and hands with compost (www.instagram.com\/lacompost).<\/span><\/i>\r\n
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