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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&nbsp;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

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.

She wants to be a nurse, but a 94% average wasn't enough to get into program

Nova Scotia's need for nurses has some questioning why the province doesn't simply train more people.

Abby Poffenroth of Antigonish was shocked that she didn't get into nursing school despite her 94% average. She's hoping the province expands the number of seats so more people can be trained to fill gaps in the system. 

Abby Poffenroth

Abby Poffenroth of Antigonish was shocked that she didn't get into nursing school despite her 94 per cent average graduating from high school. She's hoping the province expands the number of seats so more people can be trained to fill gaps in the system. 

Rumours swirled for decades. Now, a disgraced Halifax professor faces a reckoning

For five decades, Wayne Hankey cultivated a powerful persona as a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax. Now, he’s facing charges in historical sexual abuse cases, and allegations long whispered about are trickling into the open.

Wayne Hankey

Halifax asks public to weigh in on overhauling major intersection

If you've ever spent your commute stuck in traffic at one of Halifax's busiest intersections, the municipality wants to hear from you. Staff have put forward two design options and people can weigh in until Nov. 17.

The repair work will take place beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday and should take 30 minutes to complete.

Windsor Street exchange

The Halifax Regional Municipality has proposed 2 designs to overhaul the busy Windsor Street exchange, which is often backed up during rush hour.

Vaccine deadline extended for public service workers in N.S. with at least 1 dose

The Nov.30 deadline will not apply to anyone who has at least one dose, and who plans to get the second.

A medical worker prepares a shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, at Belgrade Fair makeshift center in Belgrade, Serbia, on Oct. 2, 2021. 

Virus Outbreak

Nova Scotia has changed the mandatory vaccine deadline for public workers who already have one dose and who are planning to get their second. 

Staff shortages prompt growing number of N.S. nursing homes to halt admissions

More than one in every 10 nursing homes in Nova Scotia have closed their doors to new admissions because of staffing shortages, according to the latest figures from the province.

Two women in masks help an older woman in a wheelchair in a nursing home room with photos on the walls.

Continuing care assistants Kamal Kaur, left, and Sherlyn Monteroso, right, help resident Hilary Wellard at St. Vincent's Nursing Home in Halifax, Nov. 1, 2021.

Continuing care assistants St. Vincent's Nursing Home Halifax

Continuing care assistants Kamal Kaur, left, and Sherlyn Monteroso, right, help resident Hilary Wellard at St. Vincent's Nursing Home in Halifax on Monday. St. Vincent's was the site of a provincial government announcement about recruitment of new care workers.

Courthouse Hill Energy in East Hants, N.S., is turning food waste into energy to sell to Nova Scotia Power.

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

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