KSU’s Farm-to-Campus(-to-Farm)

ProgramOct. 2014

Hickory Grove Farm – located on an old GA DOT staging site

1,000’s of truckloads of topsoil were needed

Farm-to-Campus Practices

• Composting• Vermiculture/Vermicomposting• Rainwater reclamation• Recycling program for glass, plastic, cardboard, metal and aluminum cans,

even used cooking oil for biodiesel conversion• Aerobic Digester (that reduced the annual costs of composting by $29,000

and created a nutrient-rich water effluent to support the campus farms)• Resulting in: Diversion of more than 43,800lbs of waste from landfill each

month

KSU Farmers’ Market

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