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Today another local group I work with is having a Johnson-Su compost workshop at my biomass processing facility. 30 people are signed up to learn how to make a static pile reactor that ends up making a fungal dominant soil inoculant. The project is making 28 reactors and collecting food waste from several area grade schools, which is mixed with ground up biomass, leaves, manure, and whatever else is available and left to the worms and microbes to process for up to a year. I’ll also be giving a tour of my fabrication shop and showing several models of biochar/boiler equipment that are under construction.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
I heard about something like this on NPR last week. A dairy farm gets baked goods waste from a local bakery plant and mixes it with cow manure in these 'anaerobic digesters' and methane gas is produced which generates turbines that produce electricity the farm sells to the electric company to offset the farm costs.
It's on the back burner awaiting time and money...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
The composting workshop was a big success, lots of new contacts and friends made in the local community!
One of my main colleagues in this stuff also happens to be a top ornithologist. He said he saw a covet of 15 Montezuma quail on my 10 acre industrial park property today - I had never heard of them. All I knew about was Gambel's quail. He said they're kind of a rare species.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
The composting workshop was a big success, lots of new contacts and friends made in the local community!
One of my main colleagues in this stuff also happens to be a top ornithologist. He said he saw a covet of 15 Montezuma quail on my 10 acre industrial park property today - I had never heard of them. All I knew about was Gambel's quail. He said they're kind of a rare species.
Hmmm… try this. It was created by the son of the project leader.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
After reading about New Mexico this summer, I'm surprised that there was much left to compost! It seemed like biochar was taking over! I prefur the white stuff, but Buffalo just stole our 4 feet of snow! We are 150 miles East of Buffalo and had none. We have plenty of fresh water around here, but the lake effect snow off the Great Lakes is capricious, but is essential for refilling our aquifurs. We had a terrible growing season this year as the previous year had fungal spot on all the maples, and no leaves to compost. No leaves, no compost, no crops! This year had abundant leaves, and I appropriated all the neighbors leaves, and they didnt complain. I composted like mad and double mulched all my beds, and am looking forward to a much better garden next year. Damn squirrels suddenly developed a taste for ripening tomatoes
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