{"id":383983,"date":"2026-08-28T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383983\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:48:08","slug":"winter-park-farmers-market-enters-its-compost-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383983\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park Farmers\u2019 Market enters its compost era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minimizing landfill waste is a core mission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofwinterpark.org\/departments\/natural-resources-sustainability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City of Winter Park\u2019s Natural Resources &amp; Sustainability Department<\/a>. That\u2019s why they\u2019re teaming up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcommunitypaper.com\/articles\/one-mans-trash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O-Town Compost<\/a> to provide a detour for food waste at the Saturday Farmers\u2019 Market.\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59173\" class=\"size-large wp-image-59173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5e28c714-8e48-8c58-2a09-bca36a8f689f-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-59173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(COURTESY OF CITY OF WINTER PARK)<\/p>\n<p>According to a city press release, dedicated bins will be available at each market for solid waste, recyclables and compostable materials.\n<\/p>\n<p>As with all the food scraps collected by O-Town, the waste collected at the market will be composted into fertilizer.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minimizing landfill waste is a core mission of the City of Winter Park\u2019s Natural Resources &amp; Sustainability Department.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-383983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}