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Our South Region has joined with Farmer D Organics to recycle the green waste from select stores and bring it to Longwood Plantation where Mike Smith and Daron Joffe, a.k.a. Farmer D, transform it into biodynamic organic compost.
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Great news! I hope this program expands to other regions!
August 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I work as team member at the Potrero Hill store in San Francisco
and we adhere strictly to WFM Green Mission program. This idea
will surely work in the city ,since we have several community gardens scattered all over the neighborhoods.If the South Region can do,Northern California we not be far behind. Keep up the good work.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I would like to learn which locations are doing this…and really why all are not? Great idea…so much produce and all going to waste can now go to a good cause!
September 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hi Peggy. In most all of our regions, our stores have composting programs in place. This video with Farmer D simply highlights the program in one of our more progressive regions.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:34 am
This program with Farmer D is happening in all of our Atlanta-area stores, our Birmingham, AL store, and our Greenville, SC store. It mainly has to do with how our trucks run — our North Carolina stores have a separate program which handles the composted material locally as well. Hope this helps!
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Is this program running in Austin, TX?
April 9th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Yes, Austin, TX has a composting program.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hi Kate,
Thank you so much for sharing that video. It is so good to see footage of big scale composting. I definitely will pass this video through. I’m a big composting fan, since I think it is great for the environment. However, I’m not doing it on big scale, since I live in a small apartment. Therefore I use the Bokashi bin for it, which is a great way of composting as well.
Thanks again!
Roel
February 17th, 2010 at 6:16 pm