Groundswell Agronomy Report

Hello folks. Here is a link to the Groundswell Agronomy Report. This research was undertaken by the lovely Chris Houghton from Chis Houghton Agricultural. Enjoy!


Groundswell Final Agronomy Report

The Economics of Groundswell

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During the Groundswell project the very clever Michael Reynolds agricultural economist extraordinaire was busy pouring over our budgets and crunching the numbers. You can down load his report here:

The Economics of Groundswell

Groundswell Evaluation

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The independent evaluation of the Groundswell project is now available from SCRIBD.
To download this and other Groundswell reports you will need to create a scribd account (very easy) or use your facebook log in.



The Magic Pudding - understanding the outcomes, impact and futures of Groundswell 2007 - 2011

Congratulations Armidale Dumaresq Council!

Breaking news from the ABC! Welcome to the City to Soil family.

Armidale to get new food waste system
Updated Fri Apr 8, 2011 8:49am AEST

Armidale Dumaresq Council says it believes it is the first council in the New England North West to put in a residential compost system as a part of its waste collection service.

The City to Soil system sees domestic food waste collected, composted and distributed to local farmers and residents.

The council says it will soon be easier for Armidale residents to recycle their food waste with the unique program, due to begin in the second half of this year.

The Chair of the Waste Management Committee, Councillor Bruce Whan, says most of the infrastructure is already in place and the program shouldn't cost more then $10,000 to $20,000 to set up.

"Because we believe that it is going to divert so much of what is currently waste and make a useful product out of it, which farmers and residents can use as a high quality compost," he said.

"We have being looking at various composting processes for quite some time and this one is very low in terms of infrastructure and it also is a very easy process."

Councillor Whan says there is very little to do to finalise the progam and it will be easy to implement.

"Basically we've got most of the machinery that we need now, so it's simply a matter of just using ordinary tarps, instead of specialised tarps, which some of the processes use," he said.

Yes - but what did they really say?

Groundswell Information Sheets

To the right here ladies and gentlemen, we have links to the Groundswell Information Sheet series. You have to admit they sure look pretty. We really hope they are useful too.

City to Soil - the movie!