Projects
Here's just a small sampling of our composting efforts over the years.
Help Fund a Leaf Loader for Local Yard Cleanup & Composting.
I’m raising funds to purchase a leaf loader so I can work more efficiently, take on more jobs, and stop losing time and income to manual cleanup. Right now, I’m limited by equipment, and that directly affects how much work I can do in a day. A leaf loader would dramatically increase productivity, reduce physical strain, and allow me to provide faster, cleaner service to customers. Every contribution goes directly toward upgrading the tools I need to keep working, earning, and providing dependable service. Your support helps turn hard work into real progress, and it’s truly appreciated.
Materials For Composting
Materials For Composting.
Compost is a mixture of ingredients used to fertilize and improve the soil. It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant and food waste and recycling organic materials. The resulting mixture is rich in plant nutrients and beneficial organisms, such as worms and fungal mycelium. Compost improves soil fertility in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming. The benefits of compost include providing nutrients to crops as fertilizer, acting as a soil conditioner, increasing the humus or humic acid contents of the soil, and introducing beneficial colonies of microbes that help to suppress pathogens in the soil. It also reduces expenses on commercial chemical fertilizers for recreational gardeners and commercial farmers alike. Compost can also be used for land and stream reclamation, wetland construction, and landfill cover.
Buckets For Food Waste Collection
Food Waste Collection Service
In April of 2021, we started collecting food waste. Food loss and waste is food that is not eaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous and occur throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and consumption. Around 14 percent of food produced is lost from post-harvest up to, but not including, the retail level. Out of the total food available to consumers in 2019, approximately 17 percent went to the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food services.
Piles Of Finished Compost
Finished Compost
Compost is ready or finished when it looks, feels and smells like rich, dark earth rather than rotting vegetables. In other words, it should be dark brown, crumbly and smell like a forest floor.
Finished Compost.
Using compost as a soil amendment is beneficial to your plants. Here is some of our compost that is going to be used in a seed starting mix.