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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
AWARDS
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