A NSW DPI project is helping boost sustainable markets for recycled organics compost among broadacre horticulturalists, via workshops, field walks and more.

A brace of NSW-based companies Hills Bark Blower, Penelope’s Garden and the NSW Roads & Maritime Service (RMS) will spend a NSW EPA grant of more than $80,000 to train RMS operatives in the use of innovative ‘compost blankets’.

Australian waste-management company AgEnviro Solutions has received $350,000 in NSW EPA funding to show sports field managers across NSW how recycled organics composts can boost turf performance.

Leading advisor on waste management and organics recycling, MRA Consulting Group and its partners are nearly $500,000 in EPA funding for a brace of projects that aim to boost knowledge about and access to recycled organics by farmers across NSW.