Compost School Field Trips 2020
On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, students will be visiting different commercial, community and farm composting sites.
To reinforce and illustrate the principles taught in the classes, different commercial, community and farm composting sites have been selected to be visited by the students. At each site the operators freely share their information and answer the questions the students may have.
All along the tour, students are able to interact with the faculty of the school. The field trips include:
- a regional transfer station serving 8 central Maine communities
- an innovative compost and retail bagging operation (Living Acres)
- a medium scale manure and food scrap compost facility(Farmington Compost Cooperative)
- a family owned Dairy Farm operation composting its animal bedding, waste feed, and collected horse bedding (Rainbow Valley Farms)
- a medium-scale commercial turned windrow compost facility mixing food scraps with leaves and horse bedding (MB Bark/We Compost It)
- a medium-scale static aerated pile compost facility (Little River Compost)
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