Cultivating Sustainable Systems
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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, technical services, workshops, and upcoming events.
Now available:
Free and Reduced Rate Technical Services
for Farmers Program
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 Tom Gilbert, Executive Director of Highfields, will be teaching a course on Composting Ecology & Management at UVM this summer. This course is offered through UVM's Minor in Ecological Agriculture.
Click here for more information.
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Highfields & Hardwick Agriculture News
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Seven Days' Sally West Johnson explores
the rise of the compost industry in Vermont,
and the growing pains that accompanied it.
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...In a small town in upstate Vermont, meet four men who have combined farming and business efforts to create a sustainable food infrastructure based on cooperation, not competition.
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Featured in Gourmet Magazine |
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"From the Good Earth - The Dish on Dirt
Highfields Institute Helps Build Healthy Soils"
(Print version now available, soon to appear online. Free copies of EGM can be picked up at selected restaurants, grocers, farmer’s markets, and retailers. Subscriptions also avaliable.) |
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Burlington
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"Turning food scraps into energy"
Composters and waste districts take a new look at the use of food waste for creating power. |
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Thank You to all who attended Highfields' fundraising events on October 1st hosted by Bill McKibben.
We greatly appreciate your support!
Special thanks to Bill McKibben for his generous donation of time and energy to make this day successful!
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Technical Info
*Monitoring Compost Piles
*Compost Pad Size Development
*Recipe Development
*Site Identification
* Probe Recalibration
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