Compost: Hot and steamy all year long!
The compost piles at the SEEDS Farm at Historic Barns Park have been steaming all winter, despite the cold weather! Composting often does stop or slow down during this time…
Why Composting Matters: Meet Tabitha Lee!
Home composter Tabitha Lee made a 2024 New Years Resolution to start reducing her personal waste -- starting with food scraps and worms!
Opinion: Trash into Treasure: Traverse City’s Innovative Composting Pilot
By Sarna Salzman, SEEDS Executive Director Traverse City Record-Eagle; August 26, 2023 The City of Traverse City is taking another significant step towards a greener future and its commitment to…
Why Composting Matters
Written by: Jo Jaczkowski, SEEDS Compost Manager Organic waste is one of the largest generators of methane when it is sent to landfills. Composting, as an alternative to throwing your…
26,000 Tons: Inside The Effort To Establish Region-wide Composting In Northern Michigan
SEEDS was created by its founders to be a local response to our global challenges. We hold a deep-seated belief in the distributed power of the grassroots to change the world.
Northwest Lower Michigan Organics Diversion Roundup
A recent report evaluated current prevention, rescue/recovery and recycling processing opportunities and applied feasibility of each option to each county in the region and modeled centralized composting and operating costs…
Organic Waste Diversion
Organic Waste Diversion EcoStrategies Project Portfolio Locations Northwestern Michigan 10-County RegionAntrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Wexford Years 2019-Present Partners Bay Area Recycling for CharitiesEGLE: Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and EnergyEmmet CountyMichigan Recycling…
