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At Highfields we work to close the loop on community-based, sustainable food and agricultural systems, thus addressing soil health, water quality, solid waste, farm viability, and climate change.
We provide technical services for on-farm composting and comprehensive food waste recycling programs, which include action-based environmental education.
Please use the menu at the top of the page to tour our website, learn about our programs and technical services, workshops, and upcoming events.
Our Mission Statement
2012 NEGEF RootSkills Conference
Can you make it?
Help us with planning and save your spot today!
RootSkills is:
A one-day gathering & training for grassroots groups like yours!
An opportunity to build community, group & leadership skills!
Time to hang out with other community activists!
Lead by Effective and Fun Trainers!
Affordable!
Freedom NH on Saturday, May 19th.
1 ¼ hours from Portland, ME
1 ½ hours from Concord or Portsmouth, NH
2 hours from Augusta, ME
2 ¼ hours from Boston, MA
$25 registration includes:
Saturday breakfast, lunch and a full day workshop
+ $15 for Friday night dinner & reception
+ $25 to reserve a Friday night bunk on-site Composting has an immediate opening for a part-time Full Charge Bookkeeper experienced in using Quickbooks.
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Close the Loop St. Albans! is a community effort to recycle our food waste through composting, diverting food waste from the landfill and keeping it as a local resource. |
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Food Scrap Collection Proposals
Highfields Center for Composting is requesting proposals for clean food scrap collection and delivery in the Lamoille (Morrisville/Johnson) and NEK (St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville) regions. Interested haulers should review and complete a Proposal Sheet.
Submissions are encouraged by February 29th, 2012.
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Highfields' 2011 Fall Workshops a Rotten Success!
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Highfields Awarded $12,500 Farm to Plate Initiative Grant
Highfields Center for Composting will purchase a Mobile Compost Screener which will be made available to composters around the state at a reasonable price. Screeners remove clumps, bones, rocks and any undesirable materials that may have entered the material, making it a more desirable product for farmers, gardeners and landscapers and thus commanding a higher price in the market.
More on the Farm to Plate initiative
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Highfields Delighted to Host Serbian Delegation
Highfields recently hosted a delegation of 19 people from non-profits and municipals governments in Serbia. The delegates, tasked with working on solid waste issues in their home country, traveled to VT and Wash DC while in the U.S. and made a stop in Hardwick to visit with Highfields and learn about community composting infrastructure.
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A four part video series covering all aspects of
Livestock Mortality Composting, including technical information
and a step-by-step demonstration of the process.
Watch it Now >>>
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