Buxton Hollow Farm Natural Products earns USDA Certified Biobased Product label

WOONSOCKET — Buxton Hollow Farm Natural Products announced that two of its products have earned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label. The products, Buxton Hollow Farm Nourished Coir and Buxton Hollow Farm Compost Tea, are now able to display a unique USDA label that highlights its percentage of biobased content.

Third-party verification for a product’s biobased content is administered through the USDA BioPreferred Program, an initiative created by the 2002 Farm Bill (and most recently expanded by the 2014 Farm Bill). One of the goals of the BioPreferred Program is to increase the development, purchase and use of biobased products.

The USDA Certified Biobased Product label displays a product’s biobased content, which is the portion of a product that comes from a renewable source, such as plant, animal, marine, or forestry feedstocks. Utilizing renewable, biobased materials displaces the need for non-renewable petroleum-based chemicals. Biobased products, through petroleum displacement, have played an increasingly important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that exacerbate global climate change.

Biobased products are cost-comparative, readily available, and perform as well as or better than their conventional counterparts.

According to Donald Demers, Ph. D. “All of us here at Buxton Hollow Farm Natural Products are very happy that through third party testing both of these products, our Nourished Coir and Compost Tea, were proven to be 100% biobased. Our line of products have been very well received by farmers, gardeners, cultivators, and home-owners, and this is just one more step in showing that these natural products are safer and as, if not more effective, than chemical based products.”

“We applaud Buxton Hollow Farm Natural Products for earning the USDA Certified Biobased Product label,” said Kate Lewis, USDA BioPreferred Program. “Products from Buxton Hollow Farm Natural Products are contributing to an ever-expanding marketplace that adds value to renewable agriculture commodities, creates jobs in rural communities, and decreases our reliance on petroleum.”

According to a report that USDA released in 2016, biobased products contributed $393 billion to the U.S. economy in 2014 and support, directly and indirectly, 4.2 million jobs.