‘City to Farm’ compost project rolling out through Kaipara Regen Ag group - Webinar Dec'22

In this webinar we hear from Stephan Newman, and Phil & Jenny Grainger from the Kaipara Regen Ag group who are involved with the City to Farm composting project lead by Betsy Kettle.

This is followed by a Q&A session.

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Content

Topics covered in this webinar included:

• What Stephen Newman and Phil and Jenny Grainger are doing on farm and how they’re using compost, other biological stimulants, and diverse species pastures and crops to increase soil and animal health at pace.

• Overall decreasing input costs on farm.

• Trialling biological products/approaches in single paddocks or strips of paddocks before scaling successes to the rest of the farm.

• From Betsy Kettle; the why, what, and how of the City to Farm project which takes food scraps from the city and delivers them to farms to be made into compost.

• Food scraps as a farming resource; increasing drought resilience, greater soil nutrient availability, sequestering carbon, inoculating crops/pastures to foster soil microbial activity.

• Biochar - what it is and how it’s used in the City to Farm composting method

• City to Farm as a scheme to be replicated throughout the country for small and large scale composting.

Links and resources

• Video shown by Betsy Kettle: The Soil Story narrated by Larry Kopald

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