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Davey Stewards, founder of the Harvest Collective, talks about the regenerative agriculture business cooperative he has started. Davey Stewards hauls boxes of food waste from the Roanoke Co-op — produce that didn’t sell, or scraps from the kitchen — from the bed of his pickup truck, heaving them onto a mound of dirt. Some might see it simply as garbage, but not Stewards. He’s composting, turning the waste into living soil. And he wants to help others do it, too. Stewards, 35, is the founder of the Harvest Collective, a regenerative agriculture business collective. He has launched a variety of projects — a permaculture-based farm known as Outback Orchards worked by volunteers in exchange for produce, custom-built chicken coops — but the one that could have the broadest reach is an effort to launch a compost facility and collection service.

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