Closed-Loop Nutrient Cycling — FarmPal
Design systems where outputs become inputs. Waste products from one element feed another, minimizing external inputs.
Applications
- •Chicken manure composts to feed vegetable garden
- •Garden waste feeds chickens and compost
- •Tree prunings become mulch around the same trees
- •Kitchen scraps to worms to castings to gardens
- •Humanure systems (properly managed) return nutrients
- •Animal bedding becomes garden compost
Common Mistakes
- •Sending organic waste off-site while buying fertility
- •Not completing the loop (taking without returning)
- •Ignoring the nutrient value of "waste" products