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 â produce that didnât sell, or scraps from the kitchen â from the bed of his pickup truck, heaving them onto a mound of dirt.
Some might see it simply as garbage, but not Stewards. Heâs 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 â a permaculture-based farm known as Outback Orchards worked by volunteers in exchange for produce, custom-built chicken coops â but the one that could have the broadest reach is an effort to launch a compost facility and collection service.
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Volunteers with orange trash bags who want to rid southeast Roanoke of litter illustrate a brand of civic mindedness worth special recognition, according to city leaders.
Councilman Bill Bestpitch said the volunteers didnât call or email the mayor, council members or city officials to report litter. They picked it up themselves.
Known as the Southeast Plawkers, they reported filling 78 bags during 32 outings last year. On Monday, the group bagged the city of Roanokeâs Neighborhood Improvement Award for 2021. The award recognizes a project or activity that improves or protects the quality of life in a community.
âPlawkingâ is picking up litter while walking. If you jog and grab litter, itâs plogging. Neither word appears in the online version of the Merriam-Websterâs dictionary, but the practice has become a thing.