Green Waste

If you have ever visited Bf. you may have noticed our giant coffee sacks full of green waste!? This is all collected by Canberra local, Jennie. Not all heroes wear capes, though Jennie would certainly suit a cape.

The process starts at Bf. We separate all greenery from general waste. This is not so hard as we tend to just chuck everything on the floor and do a few sweeps a day straight into one of our sacks.

Jennie collects our sacks once a week to take to her farm. The sacks are then dispersed into different projects like a cold compost decomposition mulch stack, a strategically positioned Indian style mulch stack. This acts as a boundary to biologically convert neighbouring farm chemicals to healthy active soil.

Green waste is also added to a bigger project consisting of a years worth of florist green waste plus citrus peels from Ziggy’s Fresh (Fyshwick Markets) to create a no dig, North facing, brick walled, wind shelter citrus grove! This brick wall creates thermal mass to help grow citrus at a 800masl.

Everything is treated with biodynamics and helps to benefit a regenerative farm.

Bf. is one of six florist that Jennie collects from along with fresh produces scraps from our neighbours ours at ATYDUM and Ziggy’s.

Jennie likes to call it ‘valuable resource’ rather than waste. It all goes to help build top soil and adds to the existing biodiversity, before FOGO collection will be local and in the hands of the professional soil makers in Canberra in a couple of years.

Every time you buy flowers from Bf. a part of them is left behind in good hands. Look out for Jennie in her HiLux that is usually chocked to the brim with green gold.