Homegrown Fertility: Harnessing Local Waste Streams for Resilient Soils
The Community Wellness Project is exploring ways to improve food system resilience on the North Olympic Peninsula by reducing reliance on imported soil amendments such as organic fertilizer, compost, and agricultural lime. We are researching how farms and communities can produce clean, biologically active soil amendments from local waste streams on a small to medium scale. This session will cover the benefits of localized fertilizer production and composting systems, challenges around sourcing clean feedstocks, lessons learned from pilot projects, and future opportunities for community-scale nutrient cycling.
About the Speakers
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Jasmine Kamdar
Community Wellness ProjectJasmine is a Composting Systems Engineer who designs, commissions, and trains new users on composting systems for many applications. She is invested in improving soil health and dedicated to advancing composting technologies and transforming waste management systems to make composting THE choice for organic waste.
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Shelby Smith
Community Wellness ProjectShelby is program coordinator for the Community Wellness Project, whose mission is to cultivate the health, resilience, and wellbeing of families and food systems on the North Olympic Peninsula. She brings a background in conservation and community development to projects that build a more resilient and climate adapted food and farm economy.
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