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Full Article Source Here at Charlotte Five By Temily Wardlaw
Imagine a city with zero food waste. A city in which leftover food is turned into compost and is then continually used as soil to produce new crops.
This concept is called a “circular economy,” and the local nonprofit Carolina Farm Trust has recently acquired an 11-acre farm in Union County to begin what will be a 10 year journey of changing the way the community interacts with the lifecycle of food.
Set to open in the spring of 2020, the farmland has been subleased to three independent organizations: