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Tuesday, November 4, 2003

The village corporation owned by the Kake Tribe of Alaska has started a gardening compost business.

Kake Tribal Corporation is marketing "Totem Soil" to plant nurseries and chain stores in the the Pacific Northwest and Southcentral Alaska. The compost is made of fish-processing waste and sawdust.

The corporation employs eight and is looking to increase the workforce to 18.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture last month awarded a $47,326 rural development grant to the corporation.

Get the Story:
Kake tribe digs into compost business (The Alaska Journal of Commerce 11/3)

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