Province will provide $170,000 to help finance collection and compost point at Burgoyne Valley Community Farm
Salt Spring Island’s first major composting facility is expected to be rolling and tumbling by summer and producing more than 100 tonnes of material for the island’s gardens and fields.
“It’s all part of a self-sufficiency strategy for the Island to grow crops and feed the people of Salt Spring,” said Chipperfield, who expects only trace amounts of odour from the rolling-drum, solar-powered facility, which sits on about a half acre on the Burgoyne Farm, at 2232 Fulford-Ganges Rd. Gary Holman, Salt Spring director for the CRD, which owns the composter, said most residents do their own composting in gardens and on farms.
Holman said the composter is one of three key pieces of the Salt Spring Farm Plan for self-sufficiency and climate action that includes The Root and the co-operative abattoir. Over time and with various approvals, the composting system could be expanded to include other producers of green waste, Holman said.
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