Fertile Earth

Fertile Earth Worm Farm was born out of a desire to do better. To be better stewards of the Earth, to create better compost for our community. In 2008, our founder, Dr. Lanette Sobel, was working as a visiting researcher with Dr. Daniel Meeroff from Florida Atlantic University (FAU), on a project to green hotels in south Florida. After performing waste audits on two hotels in Miami, the team discovered that hotels were producing about one ton of organic “waste” per hotel room per year. With over 20,000 hotel rooms on just Miami Beach alone, that was a lot of waste. Looking into what options existed besides landfilling, we discovered that there were none. So, we decided to create an option. And after much trial and error, Fertile Earth Worm Farm was finally born in 2011.

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