I am trying to come up with a survey questionnaire to identify barriers and benefits to backyard composting and farming in rural households in the United States.
Anu Aryal
Graduate Assistant
Ohio University
United States
Barriers & Benefits to Backyard Composting and Farming in Rural Households.
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Greetings: Many rural folks don't perceive barriers or benefits to composting...we just call it "feeding chickens or hogs," feeding meat scraps to farm pets, etc. When larger-scale food waste (think tomato skins after canning, corn shucks, pea shucks, etc) is generated, that material is just spread over the garden area that the crop came from. In the rural areas that I grew up in, and live in, "composting" is integrated into daily life, and we don't think aobut it "separately." In the winter, I have a "real" composter next to the back door that is just storage until I can till the material into my garden, or spread it on my pasture combined with the winter manure accumulations. Your questions may need to define what you mean by composting, and recognize that rural folks "just compost" because that's what we've always done.
Susan Young
Senior Consultant
Foth Companies
United States
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Please contact Brenda Platt, [email protected] at the Institute for Local Self Reliance. Check out their website. They have done a lot of this work already. I did a survey for them in Dec 2013 on Community Based Composting. Let me know how it goes! Tell her I referred you. Lore Rosenthal.
Lore Rosenthal
co-founder
Simplicity Matters Earth Institute
United States