This virtual tour of Black Dirt Farm, a diversified family farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, was part of VORS 2021.

Black Dirt Farm collects food scraps from a wide variety of businesses and institutions in their community/ region, and uses that material as a component of the compost forage it produces for its 1,000 bird flock of laying hens. What isn't consumed by the birds is then used to make compost and worm castings. The farm also grows a small number of crops.

Their farm is firmly based in regenerative agricultural practices and the creation of sustainable food systems. Black Dirt Farm is committed to a community-scale, systems-based approach to organics management. Tom has played a wide variety of roles in the agricultural and composting sectors for 25 years.

Video time stamps:

• The tour starts at 3:43

• Q&A with Tom Gilbert starts at 16:07