Profiting with Compost and the Importance of Compost Quality
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. The fifth webinar of the series, Profiting with Compost & the Importance of Compost Quality, featured presenters Dr. Greg Evanylo, professor in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Virginia Tech and Jayne Merner Senecal, farmer and composter at Earth Care Farm in Rhode Island. They presented on compost testing as a tool for creating high-quality compost that can profit a farming business.

In this webinar, Greg discussed: proper compost sample collection and handling; the important chemical, physical, and biological parameters to test; the importance of testing in determining a compost’s use; different quantitative and qualitative compost standards; and how to limit Phosphorus in compost. 

Jayne discussed how Earth Care Farm began composting, how it profits from its composting operation, how Earth Care Farm integrates compost quality monitoring and testing into their operation, and the different compost-base products Earth Care Farm markets and sells.

This webinar was recorded on November 16, 2021. Learn more: https://ilsr.org/compost-quality-and-testing-webinar/