| Our New Facility |
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Highfields’ new facility has found a home in Wolcott, Vermont at the Fisher Bridge Industrial Park with our partners High Mowing Organic Seeds and the Vermont Food Bank. Our new facility will allow us to do what we have always done – advance compost research and education in conjunction with an operating compost enterprise that serves the local community – but grow its impact and opportunities dramatically.
Our model as a small, ambitious organization is simple: develop a local composting enterprise that self-finances itself and provide a stable platform from which to build an innovative, rigorous and ambitious research and education program to advance sustainable agriculture.
Learn more about our plans for the new Research and Education Facility. In order to develop this facility, we are undertaking a capital campaign. Our goal is to build a research and education program that advances sustainable agriculture with the support of grassroots donors – learn how your donation of any size can support our work.
| Buy Compost - Our Products |
Highfields produces both traditionally windrowed compost and vermicompost. All of our compost products are certified as 'suitable for organic production' by Vermont Organic Farmers. To deliver the highest quality composts we produce compost mixes blended to recipe using feedstock analysis and experienced operator know-how. This means we are blending the proper ratios of nutrients to deliver to you the most stable and nutrient-rich composts that we can, while also maximizing beneficial organisms that support healthy soils and plants.
We monitor our compost regularly to ensure it is heating appropriately to kill weed seeds and pathogens, as well as being adequately oxygenated.
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Properly made composts are known to support plant vigor and protect plants from disease. Our vermicompost is produced using worms at a temperature lower than our regular compost. Vermicompost delivers greater concentrations of volatile nutrients like nitrogen, higher humic acid content, and unique biological communities.
You can buy compost from Highfields in a couple of different ways:
1. Come by our facility and buy it right off the yard, or you can call us and have an order delivered. A new price list will be available before Spring - last years prices are listed below.
2. Participate in our Community Supported Compost program. This program borrows a subscriber model from CSA (Community Support Agriculture) or CSR (Community Supported Restaurants). Through this program you can pre-buy your compost for a period of five years. Why pre-buy compost? Pre-buying allows you to get preferred pricing and garauntee product availability, while helping us finance the expansion of our operation.
When you buy compost at Highfields, not only do you ensure a high quality soil building amendment for your farm or garden, you help support our programs to advance sustainable agriculture through compost research and education.
( Prices Sheet from 2012 - 2013 prices to be announced
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Our facility also accepts a variety of materials, including leaves, wood chips, manures, and shredded paper. Contact Alex Utevsky at 802-472-8880 for more information.
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We offer monthly tours - please call back this coming Spring for our 2013 Tour Schedule, or contact Alex to schedule a tour for your group.
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Highfields' New Mobile Trommel Screen
Highfields announces new mobile trommel screen to provide custom screening services to farmers and composters! This service supported through a grant through the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.
See more info and our rental rates |
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The original Compost Education and Research Facility was originally established in the spring of 2004 in Hardwick, Vermont with the purpose of teaching and refining on-farm composting practices.
The facility stands as a “living laboratory” in which we research and test various aspects of on-farm composting in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of compost management. It is our aim to reduce the costs and increase the value of producing compost on the farm.
This facility is becoming an ever-developing tool for teaching the composting process and exploring various soil building and waste recycling related practices. |
| We did it! Highfields' compost heat recovery project has been Kickstarted. Thanks to all! READ MORE >>> |
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For facility information contact:
Alex Utevsky
Executive Director
Compost Facility Manager 802-472-8880
alex@highfieldscomposting.org
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Community Supported Compost (CSC)
Serious about food? Get serious about compost! Like Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), the CSC program works by paying up front for a bulk share of compost that is reserved for you annually for five years.
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Our Main Office is in central downtown Hardwick, right over the Galaxy Bookshop.
21 Mill Street Suite #1
Hardwick, Vermont
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