Read all about what happens between collection and growing food!
Food scraps go to a local farm
Before the food scraps arrive, the farmer digs swales on the contour and lines the swales with biochar. This captures rainwater and traps it so it soak into the ground instead of running off.
Biochar (charcoal made from natural, non-toxic materials that would normally go into landfill or be burned) is dug into the bottom which loosens the heavy clay and make it free-draining. Biochar also acts as a permanent form of compost in the soil, holding onto water and nutrients.
Food scraps are cured on the farm
Collecting Food Scraps from the City and transported to the Farm by Hibiscus Coast Zero Waste.
At the Farm they continue Bokashi Composting & curing for two or more weeks.
Food Scraps are layered with mulch into swales to grow bananas
When cured, the bins and buckets are emptied into the fast feeder and biochar is added.
The Fast Feeder spreads the food scraps over the swales and they are then covered with a layer of woody mulch.
