Compost School Field Trips 2024
On Wedesday, students will experience a full day of field trip visits to different municipal, commercial, private and agricultural compost sites around the state. We will be chartering a bus to provide a comfortable experience that allows for uninterrupted information exchange and net-working between students and faculty.
These visits are meant to reinforce and illustrate the principles taught in class, and as such, we have selected different composting sites to provide the best possible learning and information exchange experiences we can offer. At each site the operators freely share their information and answer the questions the students may have.
The sites we will visit include:
- a family owned Dairy Farm operation composting its animal bedding, waste feed, and collected horse bedding (Rainbow Valley Farms)
- a medium scale manure and food scrap compost facility(Farmington Compost Cooperative)
- an innovative compost and retail bagging operation (Living Acres)
- a medium-scale private facility managing animal mortalities in a humane and ethical manner (Compassionate Composting).
- a medium-scale static aerated pile compost facility (Little River Compost)
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