Compost

Join us for a look inside how David Andre with GoZERO Services, Food Waste Compost Courier at Headwater Farm of Zanesfield, is working to establish his composting operation. This tour will be an educational opportunity to learn about turning food waste into agricultural compost.

The tour is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the importance of composting in our community. It will also show how composting can be better recognized and regulated as an agricultural activity while maintaining appropriate safeguards that encourage healthy growth.

The tour will start at Head Water Farms, which is working to grow in the field of food waste composting, and then move to Andre Farms Composting Operation outside Wauseon. The In 1992, the Andre family started collecting local municipal yard waste and nearby dairy manure surpluses to develop one of the nation’s leading composting facilities, which can handle yard, agricultural, animal, and food waste. Today, the Ohio EPA has licensed it as a Class 2 composting facility and monitors it to help ensure premium fertility compost leaves the site with the plant nutrition of topsoil, which can be used as a substitute for traditionally manufactured petroleum-based fertilizers. Learn more

Tour Agenda
  • 8 a.m. Meet and tour at Headwater Farms, 6030 Twp Rd 146, Zanesfield
  • 9 a.m. Welcome and remarks by David Andre
  • 9:30 a.m. Depart for Andre Farms Composting Site outside Wauseon
  • Noon Arrive at Andre Farms, 13529 County Rd L, Wauseon

    • Lunch and discussion
  • 1:45 p.m. Tour Andre Farms
  • 2:30 p.m. Depart for return to Zanesfield

We hope you will join us for a deep dive into agriculture composting with the Logan County Farm Bureau and Headwater Farms. If you are interested in attending, RSVP here.

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Greg McGlinch

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