4/28/12: Green Mountain Compost celebrated its new Williston location with CompostFest on Saturday.  Attendees enjoyed tours of their state of the art facility, composting workshops and activities for kids involving large trucks.

So where does all the organic material for this compost come from? Eva visited one source at Essex Elementary School during lunch time and talked to 1st graders about why they separate their food scraps after eating.

Music: Red Hot Juba

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Cabot Creamery Cooperative.

 

This article appears in May 2-8, 2012.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...