{"id":18204,"date":"2024-01-17T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/on-farm-composting-compost-use-resources\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:09:56","slug":"on-farm-composting-resources","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/on-farm-composting-resources","title":{"rendered":"On-Farm Composting &#038; Compost Use Resources"},"template":"","class_list":["post-18204","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-farming","topics-on-farm-composting","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-food-security","authors-linda-bilsens-brolis"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":21617,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[76,99],"impact_areas":[16,18],"abstract":"This resources details the Why and How of On-Farm Composting, including its benefits and resources to advance on-farm composting and compost use. ","authors_tax":[635]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Composting is an age-old practice that is intrinsically tied to food production and consumption. Farmers who have intimate knowledge of their soils and want access to high-quality compost are ideal stewards of the composting process. Farms often have equipment that can be repurposed for composting, may be able to produce compost less expensively than purchasing it, and can tailor their composting recipes for their specific soil and crop needs. Composting recycles nutrients and organic matter from farm residuals, manures, and animal mortalities, but food scraps from off-site can be used to improve composting recipes.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<h5><strong>Soil Health Benefits<\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applying high-quality compost to agricultural soil as a soil health management practice can be crucial for both rebuilding and protecting soil. <\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compost as a soil amendment improves soil structure, increases soil fertility, suppresses plant disease, improves nutrient cycling, prevents soil erosion, and increases soil resilience to drought and extreme weather.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h5>Farm Prosperity and Community Self-Reliance<\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On-farm composting adds to local composting capacity and facilitates the use of compost in agricultural soil \u2013 which can reduce the amount of synthetic fertilizers a farm needs \u2013 and may provide additional sources of income to farms via tipping fees and compost sales.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benefits to soil health result in better crop yields, which increase food security, and support farm profitability. <\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On-farm compost use also reduces the demand for resource- and carbon-intensive fertilizers and irrigation systems, decreasing operational inputs and costs and making farms less susceptible to instability in global markets.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Composting further creates <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/composting-sense-tables\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">local<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/state-of-composting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jobs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and local production of compost contributes to more localized, resilient food systems.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h5>Beneficios medioambientales y clim\u00e1ticos<\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The benefits of composting also extend to the broader environment, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/compost-climate\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">climate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and society.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food alone often makes up a significant portion of a community\u2019s waste, while all compostable materials combined make up the single largest component of waste generated. Whereas materials thrown in the trash end up in polluting landfills or incinerators, composting food scraps and other organic materials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/calrecycle.ca.gov\/organics\/slcp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avoids emissions associated with disposal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-burn.org\/zerowaste-zero-emissions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a climate game changer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adding compost to soil provides essential organic matter and is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatehubs.usda.gov\/hubs\/california\/topic\/soil-health-soil-amendments-and-carbon-farming\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">another key short-term climate strategy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biocycle.net\/connections-eom-is-the-key-to-som\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">compost enhances soil\u2019s ability to store carbon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, especially in degraded soils.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h2>Survey<\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you a farmer interested in composting or using more compost on your farm? What are the barriers standing in your way? Help us advocate for local composting to make more high-quality compost available for agricultural use by completing <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe61tw7lvsgizy-rTXMFHEBVb4vm4RHOX-abA1rTYOrBUaXXQ\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this survey<\/a>. (Information can be shared anonymously).<\/span>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_list_card_group","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_list_card_group":{"title":"Key Resources","intro":"ILSR hosted a series of webinars to support a distributed and diverse composting infrastructure that includes community-scale and on-farm composting. These webinars feature experts from across the industry and cover the ins and outs of on-farm composting and compost use. Topics include setting up a composting area on your farm, integrating composting into your farming business, developing composting recipes, sourcing feedstocks, interpreting a compost test report, and understanding the different benefits of and uses for compost on the farm. \r\n\r\nThe Mid-Atlantic Better Composting School hosted a series of webinars that mirrored its compost operator training and prepared participants for regional compost facility operator certification examinations.","button":"","cards":[{"title":"ILSR's On-Farm Composting & Compost Use Webinar Series","items":[{"text":"Compost and Jumping Worms: What to Know","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/jumping-worms\/"},{"text":"Compost and the FDA Produce Safety Rule","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/webinar-fda-produce-safety-rule\/"},{"text":"State Permitting Pathways for Advancing On-Farm Composting","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/state-permitting-pathways-on-farm-composting\/"},{"text":"The Role of Farms in Decentralized Composting","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/role-of-farms-in-decentralized-composting\/"}]},{"title":"ILSR\u2019s Introduction to On-Farm Composting: Webinar Series (2021)","items":[{"text":"On-Farm Composting Fundamentals","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/composting-fundamentals-robert-rynk\/"},{"text":"Integrating Composting Into Your Farming Business","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/integrating-composting-ellen-polishuk\/"},{"text":"Composting Recipes & Integrating Food Scraps","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/compost-recipes-james-mcsweeney\/"},{"text":"Compost & Soil: Restoring Health & Rebalancing the Climate","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/compost-and-soil-health-webinar\/"},{"text":"Profiting with Compost & the Importance of Compost Quality","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/compost-quality-and-testing-webinar\/"},{"text":"Compost - Soil - Planet: Putting the Many Facets Together","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/compost-soil-plant-webinar\/"}]},{"title":"Mid-Atlantic Better Composting School Webinars","items":[{"text":"Science of Composting","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-1-science-of-composting"},{"text":"Compost Feedstocks & Recipe Development","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-2-composting-feedstocks-and-recipe-development"},{"text":"Composting Systems & Methods","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-3-composting-systems-and-methods"},{"text":"Site Selection & Design","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-4-site-selection-and-design"},{"text":"Equipment","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-5-equipment"},{"text":"Composting Management - Water & Problem Feedstocks","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-6-composting-management-water-problem-feedstocks"},{"text":"Composting Management - Odor","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-7-composting-management-odor"},{"text":"Health & Safety","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-8-health-and-safety"},{"text":"Regulations","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-9-regulations"},{"text":"Compost Quality & Standards","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-10-compost-quality-and-standards"},{"text":"Compost Use & Safety","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-11-compost-use-and-safety"},{"text":"Compost Marketing & Integration","link":"https:\/\/connect.extension.org\/event\/mid-atlantic-composting-and-compost-use-webinar-series-webinar-12-compost-marketing-integration-and-summary"}]}]}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_link_card_group","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_link_card_group":{"title":"Policy to Advance On-Farm Composting & Compost Use","abstract":"There are many avenues to remove political and operational barriers and advance on-farm composting and compost use. These resources cover a variety of strategies to further local on-farm composting, with a particular focus on local and state government intervention. ","link":"","cards":[{"title":"On-farm Composting Rules and Permit Exemptions","abstract":"Policy options, model examples, and tools to promote local on-farm composting, many of which focus on permit exemptions to remove political and operational barriers for on-farm composting.","link":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/on-farm-composting\/","target":"_blank"}},{"title":"Webinar on State Permitting Pathways for Advancing On-Farm Composting","abstract":"Permit exemptions can authorize compost operations on farms and smaller-scale facilities. Many states have incorporated permit exemptions into their composting regulations and some states have additional regulatory pathways that support farms and other small-scale sites that are ready to scale up. This webinar explores models from around the country and explores the impact these rules are having. ","link":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/state-permitting-pathways-on-farm-composting\/","target":"_blank"}},{"title":"Healthy Soils and Compost Policy Guide: Synergies and Opportunities","abstract":"Provides an overview of the overlap between healthy soils and compost in policy and covers current opportunities for policy to advance soil healthy practices, high-quality compost production, and compost use throughout the country.","link":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/healthy-soils-compost-policy-guide\/","target":"_blank"}},{"title":"Composting and Climate Action Plans: A Guide for Local Solutions","abstract":"Reviews opportunities, strategies, and tools for incorporating local composting into climate action plans, including template language, model measures, and existing examples to support urban and rural farmers in producing and utilizing compost (measure 4). ","link":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/compost-climate-action-plans\/","target":"_blank"}},{"title":"Model Composting Policy Library","abstract":"Existing model composting policies at the local, state, and federal levels, along with policymaking tools and resources within each topic. Features policies for organics diversion and recovery; zoning and permitting; infrastructure, funding, and capacity; soil health; and end markets for compost. These include model policies for Compost-Amended Soil Requirements, Policies on Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration, and Compost Procurement Policies.","link":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/composting-rules-library\/","target":"_blank"}},{"title":"Composting Association of Vermont\u2019s On-Farm Food Scrap Composting Toolkit","abstract":"Provides technical support and training for community-oriented food scrap composting and manure management on farms in rural and small communities throughout the U.S. The overarching goal of this project and resulting Toolkit is to reduce solid waste, avoid water pollution, and increase soil health and farm resiliency. ","link":{"title":"","url":"https:\/\/www.compostingvermont.org\/onfarm-composting-toolkit","target":"_blank"}}],"color":"light"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h2><b>Maryland Spotlight<\/b><\/h2>\r\nILSR's Composting for Community team has more than a decade of history actively working with state and local officials, legislators, and advocacy groups to advance favorable composting policies in the state, including on-farm composting. <a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/composting-policy-maryland\/\">Check out our history of work here<\/a>.\r\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/dsd.maryland.gov\/Pages\/COMARSearch.aspx#Default=%7B%22k%22%3A%22compost%22%2C%22r%22%3A%5B%7B%22n%22%3A%22dsdFullTitleName%22%2C%22t%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22%C7%82%C7%82737472696e673b233236202d204465706172746d656e74206f6620456e7669726f6e6d656e74%5C%22%22%5D%2C%22o%22%3A%22and%22%2C%22k%22%3Afalse%2C%22m%22%3Anull%7D%5D%2C%22l%22%3A1033%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Rules\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/16ud_8KghB-ZOcwEsk4epe4DFIej-xXEq3SxpYPJH664\/edit#heading=h.jygft2rq9ug0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland Compost Regulations by Title (MDE)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mde.maryland.gov\/programs\/Land\/RecyclingandOperationsprogram\/Pages\/composting.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MDE Organics Diversion and Composting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: guidance and documents for composting facility permits, facilities, facility regulations, county food scrap collection programs, fact sheets, legislation and reports, additional information, and resources.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/maryland-permit-exemptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023 Maryland On-Farm Composting Permit Exemptions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: expands permit exemptions by passing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mgaleg.maryland.gov\/2023RS\/bills\/sb\/sb0262t.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB262<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mgaleg.maryland.gov\/2023RS\/bills\/hb\/hb0253e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HB253<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cOn-Farm Composting Facilities - Permit Exemption.\u201d This new law requires the MDE to adopt regulations that more than double the area allowed for food scrap composting - from 5,000 sq ft for space used \u201cin support of composting\u201d to 10,000 sq ft. for \u201cactive composting.\u201d<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/bill-expanding-on-farm-composting-of-food-scraps-passes-in-md\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ILSR documentation of the new bill and our involvement in its passing<\/span><\/a><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><b><i>Regulation guidelines are currently being drafted by MDE, and we anticipate their release shortly.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mde.maryland.gov\/programs\/land\/RecyclingandOperationsprogram\/Documents\/Composting%20Facility%20Permitting%20Guidance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Permitting Guidance for Maryland Composting Facilities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022): Details the 2015 rules change to tier permitting structures which exempted on-farm and small sites from needing a full composting facility permit for processing certain feedstock types in particular quantities (5,000 sq ft exemption).\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dsd.maryland.gov\/regulations\/Pages\/26.04.11.06.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COMAR 26.04.11.06<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: On-Farm Composting Facilities - Permits Required (current regulations)<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/resource_conservation\/Pages\/Soil-Health.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland Healthy Soils Program<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/dsd.maryland.gov\/Pages\/COMARSearch.aspx#Default=%7B%22k%22%3A%22compost%22%2C%22r%22%3A%5B%7B%22n%22%3A%22dsdFullTitleName%22%2C%22t%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22%C7%82%C7%82737472696e673b233135202d204d6172796c616e64204465706172746d656e74206f66204167726963756c74757265%5C%22%22%5D%2C%22o%22%3A%22and%22%2C%22k%22%3Afalse%2C%22m%22%3Anull%7D%5D%2C%22l%22%3A1033%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) Rules<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lVIlmGQgweCwMHTBHJvSpWStDamxo5LX8k2pN8s6WsM\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland Compost Regulations by Title (MDA)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Product registration form<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Documents\/New-Fertilizer-Registration-Form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Fertilizer Registration Instructions<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Documents\/New-Pesticide-Registration-Form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Pesticide Registration Instructions<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_media_duo","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_media_duo":{"align":"left","background":"white","image_size":"normal","image":4929,"title":"","text":"<a href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/food-waste-hierarchy\/\">ILSR's Hierarchy<\/a> highlights the importance of locally based composting solutions as a first priority over large-scale regional solutions. 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