Meet the N.S. farmers who are turning composted food into energy

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A United Nations report from earlier this year found that Canadians generate around 80 kilograms of food waste per person every year — and that's just from our homes.

Grocery stores and restaurants also create excessive food waste. Whether it's peelings from meal prep, or spoiled food, much of it ends up as compost.

But now there are least three facilities in Nova Scotia turning that waste into energy, which is then sold to Nova Scotia Power.

That includes a bio-digester at Courthouse Hill Farms in Hants County. It's set up on a dairy farm that's been in the Blois family since 1784.

CBC Nova Scotia's Phlis McGregor dropped by for a tour. Watch the full story below:

Meet the N.S. farmers turning composted food into energy

3 years ago

Duration 4:56

There are at least three facilities in Nova Scotia that are taking food waste and turning it into energy, including a bio-digester at Courthouse Hill Farms in Hants County.

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