Composting Recipes & Integrating Food Scraps with James McSweeney
Channel: Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Date: 17/04/2024

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s On-Farm Composting & Compost Use Webinar Series features experts from across the industry and covers the ins and outs of on-farm composting and compost use. In the third of the series, Composting Recipes & Integrating Food Scraps, James McSweeney presented a comprehensive overview of composting feedstock management and recipe development for farms. James is a composting consultant, educator, and author of Community-Scale Composting Systems, a comprehensive designer’s and practitioner’s manual for food scrap composters. In this webinar, James discussed: compost recipe development using common farm inputs, including animal mortalities; feedstock sourcing, handling and pre-processing; estimating site throughput; and best management practices for handling and composting food scraps.

This webinar was recorded on October 5, 2021. Learn more: https://ilsr.org/compost-recipes-james-mcsweeney/