For Rural Property Owners
A Quick Rundown
City to farm:
Links businesses with local farms to divert food scraps from landfill to beneficial reuse.
Shows businesses how to properly pre-treat their food scraps for collection.
Transports the pre-treated food from businesses in special storage containers to a local farm.
Promotes businesses, schools & farms that participate in the programme as “Doing the Right Thing”
C2F collects commercial food scraps in a box truck with a tail lift using a range of containers appropriate to the type and amount of food scraps generated. A bokashi compost system is used in the containers which are transported to a local farm.
Bokashi inoculant fermented the food scraps, pickling them to minimise odours and maximise rapid breakdown into topsoil.
What That Looks Like
120L Henkel bin for high nitrogen food scraps like meat, dairy, fish or soybean
140L Wheelie bins for lightweight produce
80-100L Wheelie bins for heavier food scraps
15L Buckets for small amounts of food scraps and coffee grounds
The knowledge and expertise to set up swales on your farm and help you build healthy soil
What We Provide
Sending local food scraps to local farms
Before the food scraps arrive, the farmer digs swales on the contour and lines the swales with biochar. This captures rainwater and traps it so it soak into the ground instead of running off.
Biochar (charcoal made from natural, non-toxic materials that would normally go into landfill or be burned) is dug into the bottom which loosens the heavy clay and make it free-draining. Biochar also acts as a permanent form of compost in the soil, holding onto water and nutrients.
Food Scraps are layered with mulch into swales to grow bananas
When cured, the bins and buckets are emptied into the fast feeder and biochar is added.
The Fast Feeder spreads the food scraps over the swales and they are then covered with a layer of woody mulch.
Food Scraps are layered with mulch into swales to grow bananas
When cured, the bins and buckets are emptied into the fast feeder and biochar is added.
The Fast Feeder spreads the food scraps over the swales and they are then covered with a layer of woody mulch.
Read the stories of some of the groups that are part of City to Farm
There are many others on board too! More stories coming soon...
A bit about Us
The food scrap collection is managed by Hibiscus Coast Zero Waste (HCZW), an Auckland community enterprise, that is a member of the Auckland Resource Recovery Network.
From left to right are City to Farm farmers Jenny and Phil and driver David Kettle.
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