Alleycat Acres

Alleycat Acres is an urban farming collective based in Seattle, Washington, that promotes the application of sewage sludge-derived products to its urban farms. According to its website, Alleycat Acres "creates community-run farms on under utilized urban spaces" and they want Seattleites to think of them "as food messengers, racing to build a more sustainable, highly localized food system, where we can all reconnect with food as well as with each other."

The collective runs 2 farms in the Seattle area and recently encouraged use of GroCo, a sewage sludge-based product misleadingly disguised as "organic," "biosolids compost." Sludge promoters and University of Washington employees Sally Brown, a research associate professor of soil science, and her research assistant Kate Kurtz recently partnered with Alleycat Acres to promote the use of GroCo. Kurtz is one of the co-founders of Alleycat Acres and actively involved in the farms' running operations.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * sewage sludge
 * Sally Brown
 * GroCo
 * Kate Kurtz
 * toxic sludge
 * biosolids

External articles

 * Emily Knudsen, "GroCo Brings Delectable Bounty to the Table," September 14, 2010, UrbanFarmHub.org Website, Accessed April 13, 2011.


 * Kate Kurtz and Urban Farm Hub Team, "The Bounty of Biosolids," August 11, 2010, UrbanFarmHub.org Website, Accessed April 13, 2011.


 * Kate Kurtz, "Why I Love Biosolids," May 6, 2010, UrbanFoodProducer.Blogspot.com Website, Accessed April 13, 2011.