Wow! Week 4 allready! Time flies (when you're having fun). So that's the good news...the bad news is that the project may end in 4 weeks and will definitely end in 8 weeks if we do not get additional funding. If you know of any corporate spon ..
Flying Through Week 4
Lanette Sobel - Thursday, January 14, 2010
Week 3 + 2 beautiful piles of dirt
Lanette Sobel - Monday, January 04, 2010
Week 3 brought to us our second beautiful pile of dark, rich compost. Sitting there, all by themselves, patiently curing for the next 10 days until they are finally ready to be applied to the gardens. You can still see some small remnants of what o ..
Week 2 of Fertile Roots!
Lanette Sobel - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Ah, the trials and tribulations of being female and composting! Takes me back to the days I was running construction jobs right out of college and directing a none-to-happy bunch of men that were twice, if not three times my age and not exactly used ..
Fertile Roots Miami finally launches!
Lanette Sobel - Friday, December 25, 2009
This past Monday, December 21, 2009, we finally began our food composting pilot with the City of Miami. We processed 150 gallons of food waste from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and two cubic yards of yard waste using a BW Organics Model 408 in-ve ..
Update: City of Miami
Lanette Sobel - Monday, December 07, 2009
FEF will be composting food waste with the City of Miami! It's something we have been working on for the past 15 months and should recieve a good deal of media attention.
"We will be diverting what was once food waste from our local landfill ..
Worms as environmental saviors?
Lanette Sobel - Monday, December 07, 2009
Worms are nature's watse disposal units. Or rather, it is more accurate to call them waste renewal units as they don't simply consume the waste - they turn it into something far more usefull: nutriet-rich compost. ..