Boston area getting 900 tons of free fertilizer

Boston-In these days of skyrocketing prices, what could be better than free fertilizer! Officials with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority have lots of it – 900 tons as a matter of fact – that they’ll be giving away in 43 communities in the Boston area. Authority spokeswoman Ria Convery told Green Markets the 900 tons are only a small part of the 110 tons of biosolids produced every day at the Quincy plant, pelletized at another facility, and sold as New England Fertilizer all over the country, but primarily by Christmas tree farms and citrus growers in the south. Convery said the 900 tons are set aside each year by the Quincy contractor for use by the authority, which decided to resume the practice of donating it to participating communities to promote the product among their residents.