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Carter’s Compost: Traverse City’s Bike Powered, Neighborhood Composters (USA)

4th-grader Carter Schmidt is the proud CEO of Carter’s Compost, a bike-powered initiative that aims to build a more resilient community by recycling an entire neighborhood’s organic waste. The 9-year-old visionary is not only helping his folks’ urban farm but he is also encouraging members to grow their own food by redistributing the final product to his community — for only $5 a month! No wonder he was awarded the 2013 Recycler of the Year!

Our future is in awesome hands….

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  1. This only works if the neighbors want compost. In places where people don’t want compost, it may be possible to use the compost chicken tractor technique (the one Geoff Lawton recently displayed on his website) in order to give the neighbors eggs. Since this technique also generates compost, you can still supply the neighbors with compost if they want it :). Just a thought.

  2. Happy Spring in NW Michigan—still riding bikes through snow and ice—but it’s melting! This is indeed a wonderful and devoted young man–and his brother and parental units, whom I’ve had the pleasure of sharing “worm-farming” and compost love w.COMPOST is cool (and sometimes HOT)…Carter and his bro ARE everybody’s buddy in tc very proud to have them appear in permaculture news—

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