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Local partnership completes first project initiated by Sonoma County’s Climate Resilience Fund
Resource Conservation Districts in Sonoma County are proud to be part of the coalition that recently completed its first round of compost projects to sequester carbon on agricultural lands.
"A partnership between local government, conservation districts and environmental groups today announced the completion of a pilot project that removed carbon from the atmosphere by applying compost on agricultural land, the first project initiated by Sonoma County's Climate Resilience Fund.
The $500,000 project provided rebates that subsidized the use of compost at 16 local farms and ranches in 2023 and funded outreach to educate the public about the environmental benefits of composting. It removed the equivalent of 6,070 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, which is roughly equal to taking 1,500 cars off the road for one year. Sequestering a similar amount of carbon in a single year would take 7,087 acres of forests."
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