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Shortages create fertile ground for compost as farmers look for affordable alternatives
ROBERT REED CRAWLED UP on a massive pile of food scraps and yard trimmings and sat down. He buried his hands and rooted around a bit, grinning at his colleague, Kirk Steed. But instead of responding with a grimace of distaste, Steed merely smiled. “Nice,” he said. And it was nice. That’s because the pile […] The post Shortages create fertile ground for compost as farmers look for affordable alternatives appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Shortages create fertile ground for compost as farmers look for affordable alternatives, ROBERT REED CRAWLED UP on a massive pile of food scraps and yard trimmings and sat down. He buried his hands and rooted around a bit, grinning at his colleague, Kirk Steed. But instead of responding with a grimace of distaste, Steed merely smiled. “Nice,” he said. And it was nice. That’s because the pile […] The post Shortages create fertile ground for compost as farmers look for affordable alternatives appeared first on Local News Matters .
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