{"id":20354,"date":"2024-05-28T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=20354"},"modified":"2024-05-29T06:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:17:47","slug":"ilsr-honors-benny-erez-with-local-self-reliance-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/ilsr-honors-benny-erez-with-local-self-reliance-lifetime-achievement-award","title":{"rendered":"ILSR Honors Benny Erez with Local Self-Reliance Lifetime Achievement Award"},"template":"","class_list":["post-20354","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-agriculture","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-rural-vitality"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":20345,"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":[50],"impact_areas":[16,23],"abstract":"Benny Erez of Eco City Farms was honored with Local Self-Reliance Lifetime Achievement Award at ILSR's 50th Anniversary Celebrations. ","authors_tax":false},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_media_duo","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_media_duo":{"align":"left","background":"white","image_size":"normal","image":20346,"title":"Benny Erez has modeled Local Self-Reliance and served as a critical voice in the composting movement for decades.","text":"It is ILSR\u2019s honor to award him the Local Self-Reliance Lifetime Achievement Award as a part of our 50th Anniversary Celebration.","button":{"title":"Learn More About 50 Years","url":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/50years\/","target":"_blank"}}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Benny Erez is the former Director of Urban Agriculture and current board member at Eco City Farms<\/a> in Maryland. After years working in an academic setting doing agricultural research, Benny Erez brings knowledge of theoretical and practical farming technology to ECO City Farms. He is passionate about the need to wean ourselves off the gas-guzzling commercial fertilizers and replace them with sustainably produced compost. His experience with composting technology comes from years of managing the University of Maryland Central Maryland Research and Education Center Compost Facility and visits to Austrian compost enterprises. Benny\u2019s first-hand knowledge of the power of community comes from his experiences growing up on a Kibbutz in Israel. He recognizes that the human race is facing many environmental challenges and that local, sustainable food production is a key part of the solution.\r\n\r\nILSR honors Benny for:<\/strong>\r\n