A WEST Oxfordshire farmer is proving that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
For a second year, James Price, 34, has been using fertiliser made from West Oxfordshire residents’ food waste on his crops.
He buys nutrient-rich “digestate”, worth £7 a tonne, from the Agrivert plant which processes all the district’s leftovers. And he says it is so effective it saved his oilseed rape crop.
Mr Price, who runs Perdiswell Farm, said: “The digestate has more nutrients and is a more effective fertiliser. It is great as a local farmer to be able to use a fertiliser that has been produced locally, made up from food waste that would otherwise have gone to landfill.”
Mr Price is such a fan of the fertiliser that he is now singing its praises on guided tours of Oxfordshire’s food waste processing plant, Agrivert, at Cassington.
West Oxfordshire District Council is holding roadshows to showcase its waste recycling, on June 5 in Chipping Norton, on June 6 and 29 in Witney, and on June 20 at Carterton.
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