Black Dirt Farm featured in Seven Days VT

Photo Credit Molly Zapp, Seven Days VT

Seven Days Vermont visited the farm the other day and chatted with Tom about Black Dirt Farm’s approach to farming, food scrap recovery, composting, and community engagement.

Here’s a brief excerpt:

“The farmer, composting professional and activist, 43, said he began thinking about environmental racism after observing how often landfills and incinerators are located near low-income communities and communities of color. In Gilbert's view, ecology, food systems, democracy and racial justice are intertwined, and Americans can effect real change only by facing those issues directly, with clear eyes.

Through his diversified farm, Gilbert himself hopes to foster change in how Vermonters deal with food scraps. The former executive director of Highfields Center for Composting in Hardwick, he helped draft the part of Vermont's Universal Recycling Law that bans food scraps from landfills.”

You can read the full article here.