Schools & Early Childhood Centres

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 that participate in the programme as “Doing the Right Thing”

  • Promotes those businesses participating in C2F to our “Zero Waste Zero Carbon in Schools” programme

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

What We Provide

What do the kitchen staff need to do?

Bokashi composting requires a bit of layering. After putting down 75-100mm pf food scraps, Zing* is sprinkled on top - which C2F provides. 

This helps with odour and with breaking down the food scraps efficiently.

When the bins or buckets are full, the lids are strapped down.

The bins and buckets come with woody mulch in the bottom which keeps the food scraps out of the liquid generated when the food scraps break down and is a necessary part of the bokashi process. 

Bokashi Bucket Cross Section

Wheelie Bin Cross Section

*Zing is sawdust or bran with special food-grade micro-organisms for pickling the food scraps.

Schools & Early Childhood Education Centres Participating in City to Farm

Adventure Kids

Northcross Intermediate

Kingsway - Red Beach Centre

Kingsway - Silverdale Centre

Cotton Tails

Little Coasties

Nurture Early Learning is a family-owned and operated group of early learning centres.

One of their key values and teachings to children is environmental awareness. All the food scraps from their kitchen are composted with City to Farm.

Children's Ark is an ECE in Torbay with strong environmental values. 

'As part of our zero waste journey we are using eco nappy services, collecting food scraps in worm farms and bokashi bins, and partnering with the Hibiscus Coast Zero Waste.

When selecting our play resources we are mindful of avoiding plastic items which will ultimately end up in a landfill. Most of our resources have been carefully selected using home-made, up-cycled loose parts that stretch rather than hinder a child’s imagination.

There are many others on board too! More stories coming soon...

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