Composting Project: Dropoff at the Farm

 

 

 

 

The students pilot the compost-mobile to the Alfred State Farm- the final destination for the food scraps and coffee grounds.

  

Compost bins are disembarked from the truck and prepared for the next segment of the journey to the compost pile: the ride on the ultra high-tech plastic WalMart sled.

 
 

Hauling plastic sleds with compost across the farm field, while an essential step in the compost dropoff process, makes for an effective bobsled training exercise. Go, team.

 The compost bin is emptied into the pile started for the spring semester of 2004.

 

 

Sometimes in the dead of winter the snow makes composting a real adventure. Check out what happened on a warm February day when melting snow mixed with the mud and made some slippery conditions. Stuck in the Mud!

 

Composting Main Page

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Data on the Compost Piles
 
Chris and Erin empty Coffee House coffee grounds out of plastic bags. The ENS program is trying to switch from normal plastic bags to biodegradable bags. These new bags made from corn or potato starch will biodegrade in 45 days if the temperature of the compost piles get hot enough. Check out the data page for more information.