Hammering Home Waste Reduction
Table to Farm customers wield the power to make Durango greener and smell better.
Magic in the Kitchen
Two chefs fight climate change using little more than their chops and dash of magic.
Betting the Farm
Zuzana Birova faced a dilemma: either she appeased her HOA or she enlisted her whole community in a battle to save planet Earth.
Your organic trash is this business’ treasure at composting facility near Durango
Table to Farm Compost strives to capture food waste across La Plata CountyBy Christian Burney Herald Staff WriterWednesday, Jul 19, 2023 5:00 AM Updated Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2023 10:20 AMChris Trullaz, operations manager with Table to Farm Compost, turns over a wind row compost pile at the business’ new Class 3 composting facility northeast of Durango. …
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Our View: Durango composting success depends on economy of scale
Buy-in from most residents would be needed Friday, Jun 9, 2023 4:15 AM Compost, rich with nutrients to rejuvenate soil, is brown gold for gardens and farms. Food scraps transform into living soil, isolating carbon from the atmosphere and directing it into the earth to support plant health and microscopic life. This means better health for …
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Could composting become mandatory in Durango?
City Council considers what a municipal food waste program might look like, and how to implement itBy Christian Burney Herald Staff WriterTuesday, May 23, 2023 3:51 PM Updated Tuesday, May. 23, 2023 4:49 PMThe city of Durango is considering ways to provide a municipal composting service to residents. To make it work, the city may need …
Table to Farm awarded highest certification for compost facilities in Colorado
Permit allows company to scale up operations north of Elmore’s CornerBy Nicholas A. Johnson Herald Staff WriterWednesday, Dec 29, 2021 6:45 Updated Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021 6:12Table to Farm Compost received the highest level of certification for a compost facility in the state of Colorado. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file) Table to Farm Compost announced Wednesday that …
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Table to Farm Compost set to launch Southwest Colorado’s first commercial composting operation
Facility will increase production as demand for recycling organic matter grows By Aedan Hannon Herald Staff Writer Backyard gardeners and farmers in Durango will have access to fresh, local compost soon. Table to Farm Compost’s new commercial facility at 7358 County Road 236, north of Elmore’s Corner, cleared one of its last hurdles on Oct. …
Durango business turns the tables on food waste
By Eric Peterson, ColoradoBIZ Farm-to-table cuisine is all the rage, sure, but one Durango company has put that trend in reverse with a booming business that composts table scraps at a local farm. Launched in 2016, Table to Farm Compost had about 100 customers when Managing Member Monique DiGiorgio took over the business in 2018. …