Missouri Organic Recycling Kevin Anderson

Our award-winning program know as the FRED Project, composts food waste, keeping 15,000 tons waste out of landfills in 2009. This amount is expected to increase to 20,000 tons this year. The collected food waste is mixed with yard waste to make our Nature Wise Compost.

FRED is short for Food Residuals Environmental Division.

According to the latest survey by Franklin…

This burnt offering is a breakthrough that can buy time by getting carbon dioxide from rotting plants out of the air and into the ground.

Over the last two decades, biochar – using charcoal as a soil conditioner and fertility-enhancer instead of as a fuel for the home barbeque or stove – has intrigued a group of biologists, soil scientists and archeologists fascinated by the soil building practices of the first human inhabitants of the…

If it isn’t STA Compost what is it?

That question may, at first glance, appear to be a bit silly. However, if you are seriously thinking about making compost, specifying compost or purchasing compost, you want to know exactly what you are purchasing, don’t you? The US Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program (‘STA’) is a compost testing, labeling and information disclosure program designed to give you the information you need…

Cranberry farmers in British Columbia have crafted a very creative display of local agriculture near where the 2010 Winter Olympic Games are being held in Vancouver. A floating cranberry instillation shaped into the five Olympic rings and one maple leaf created by Dallas-based artist Stephen Stefanou is gaining attention. Why cranberries? It’s pretty fitting based on what…