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After taking over Earth Care Farm in 2016 from her father, Jayne Merner Senecal realized that she had gaps in her business acumen. Her experience with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program gave her focus and has helped the farm thrive. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Love your millennials by keeping them engaged

One Last Thing 07/26/2019

Jayne Merner Senecal | Earth Care Farm owner and manager We have all heard the generalizations: Millennials are entitled, unreliable, irresponsible and unrealistic. This has...

JAYNE MERNER SENECAL, 38

PBN Award Winners 07/19/2019

40 Under Forty 2019 winner: JAYNE MERNER SENECAL | 38 OWNER/MANAGER, EARTH CARE FARM What is the best advice you have ever received? Do what you love...

FINISHED PRODUCT: Sam Fox, a former assistant manager at Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, shows a handful of finished compost. The farm is the state’s largest facility at which commercial-scale food-waste producers can divert materials to keep them out of the Central Landfill in Johnston.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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Food & Agriculture 07/30/2018

With its only landfull nearing capacity, Rhode Island is off to a slow start trying to curb food waste Every week, PBN Editor Mark S....

WHILE LICENSED TO OPERATE, the anaerobic digester located at the Central Landfill in Johnston and built by Blue Sphere Corp., is still not operating anywhere near full capacity, citing issues with cold winter weather. / COURTESY BLUE SPHERE CORP.

Winter weather continues to delay anaerobic digester start

Food & Agriculture 07/27/2018

JOHNSTON – Anaerobic digestion was meant to be the answer to Rhode Island’s 2016 food-waste ban, but more than six months after the licensure...

COMPOST CENTRAL: Jayne Merner Senecal, owner of Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, the largest commercial-scale licensed composting facility in the state, with Jeff Glover, farm support, who is holding a grabber and bucket that he uses to clean the piles of unwanted items. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Does Rhode Island have right approach on food waste?

Cover Story 07/27/2018

Tucked in a residential neighborhood of mostly rural Charlestown is the state’s largest commercial-scale compost-processing facility. Second-generation Earth Care Farm owner Jayne Merner Senecal, whose...