New England Grassroots Environment Fund
New England Grassroots Environment Fund PO Box 1057 Montpelier, VT 05601 Telephone: 802-223-4622 Fax: 802-229-1734 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)Highfields Institute (VT)
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Quick Facts
Contact: Thomas Gilbert
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Location: Hardwick, VT
Issue: Consumption & Sustainable Behavior
Sub-issue: Waste
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Group Resources
Highfields Institute’s Close The Loop Campaign
Monitoring Compost Piles; Why and How
Build Your Own Compost Turner
Group Details
Highfields Institute works to close the loop on community-based, sustainable food and agricultural systems, thus addressing soil health, water quality, solid waste, farm viability, and climate change by providing technical services for on-farm composting and comprehensive food waste recycling programs, which include action-based environmental education.
The group’s successes so far include: conducting farm visits and surveys of local farms to assess their volumes, their interest, their needs and have provided technical assistance; establishing a Compost Demonstration Site in Greensboro, Vermont; beginning a composting operation utilizing the ingredients commonly found on dairy farms so that farmers and government agencies could learn more about on-farm composting practices; conducting workshops for farmers as well as for agricultural agencies to familiarize them with the process.
The group, located in Hardwick (VT), received its first grant in March 2001 to teach on-farm composting to help reduce water, soil and air pollution from raw manure run-off into the watershed of Vermont and the region.