This is standard in Germany. Every household gets a organic wastebin that gets collected free of charge and gets composted. You can buy the compost from the city.

@EctoMorpheus

Жыл бұрын

Netherlands too

@adamkhan7234

Жыл бұрын

Not nearly the same process as shown here.

@TheHappinessOfThePursuit

Жыл бұрын

Yes, because giving it away free, burning all that diesel, then buying it back, burning all that diesel… that’s really efficient.

@lorissupportguides

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHappinessOfThePursuit Professional composting operations are way more efficient and you don't have the space to compost if you live in an apartment

@ronroelevink7097

3 ай бұрын

And the point is also there are opportunities for farms ( not households)to use waste as a resource instead of buying non-local pigfood for example that involves many, many kms of trucking. My dad told me that in his village there used to be a 'schillenboer' , a farmer that collected potatoe peels for his pigs. Ofcourse for todays mega farms that is inefficiënt but maybe worth thinking about.

We feed all our food scraps to our sinks garbage disposal that feeds a diy anaerobic digester in the basement. The liquid bioslurry effluent is diluted with rainwater then fertilizes our food forest through Drip-irrigation and also going into biochar/aerated compost teas.. fully regenerative and veganic process.

@kenyonbissett3512

Жыл бұрын

Who developed your system?

@finaganfishhouse

Жыл бұрын

This is the future! Every home should be doing this to fertilize their outdoor spaces and feed the soil food web.

@finaganfishhouse

Жыл бұрын

@@kenyonbissett3512 If you're interested in something like that and have a bigger operation there is a company based out of California that specializes in doing something very similar for commercial dairies and wineries using an anaerobic digester via red wigglers. The company is called BioFiltro- I hope to use them one day to power my own home, farm and aquaculture system.

@tribalwind

Жыл бұрын

@@kenyonbissett3512 designed myself, but the simple ibc tote biodigester design is the masterpiece of solar cities biogas innoventors and thculhane . Wonderful people them.

This video represents exactly what we need instilled in modern culture. Black Dirt Farm is an inspirational vision of businesses our community can help grow. I specialize in doing this in a modern suburban/home setting using bokashi buckets and worm bins, but a majority of people are turned off from doing a dirty job. I love that you guys offer the pickup service to help mitigate the extra work for those invested in helping the environment but don't have the desire, resources and/or knowledge to turn old food into something new. Great work!! 👏

@3bouldersurban653

Жыл бұрын

How to reach you and learn from your experience, get some insight and pick your brain. I’m working on the same idea with Bokashi composting.

Incorporating the hens directly into the managing of compost is brilliant; between the savings on cost in general it also more fully integrates the entire farm ecosystem. Very impressive business model here, and Tom seems like a very sharp guy.

The waste is real! Our farm is part of the Loop program in Canada and we pick up the waste from a local grocery store once a week. We regularly get 60 banana boxes full of edible food for the animals. And each day there is a farm picking up the same amount from this store! It boggles my mind how much was previously getting tossed to the landfill. There are 2 more grocery stores in our town that aren't part of that program, but at least with the 1 store on board, some of it is now getting "re-used".

@2Sugarbears

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful.

wow, my city produces separate batches of humanure compost and veggie compost and sells it for $10-$20 a cubic yard. probably not as amazing in quality as this Farm's product, but I feel unbelievably fortunate for this resource and forward thinking by the local government.

@nelsonolivera8059

Жыл бұрын

What city, please?

@tribalwind

Жыл бұрын

Milorganite?

@thatguychris5654

Жыл бұрын

Avoid the hunanure from cities, odds are there will be antibiotics, steroids/hormones and other persistent chemicals in it. Making your own humanure allows you to know your source.

@kerem7546

Жыл бұрын

@@thatguychris5654 won't the high heat of composting temperatures denature most of these? I feel like the main concern with municipal humanure is actually micro plastics and how they can be transmitted to root vegetables.

Tom Gilbert you are doing some absolutely amazing work never forget it

Top quality video as usual! “Oak park eggery” is doing a similar thing in the middle of Sacramento (on a smaller scale). Despite being called “the farm to fork capitol”, oak park is an “urban food desert”. The “eggery” is on a formerly blighted lot with a flock of chickens. Arborists drop truckloads of woodchips on site and anyone can directly feed the birds through a “sidewalk port”. Otherwise spent grain from breweries and food waste from restaurants/grocers end up there and eggs/compost go back out to the community (creating a positive growth loop with minimal labor/in a decentralized manner)

It seems like such an obvious solution that requires only a little bit of initiative and habit change to happen. Have a municipal composting farm, have bins for compostables, have people actually use them

@kenyonbissett3512

Жыл бұрын

Our state sent standards all counties had to meet. My county sent a notice to all homes and signs at waste drop off sites. Recycle or your taxes go up. No one wanted their taxes to rise, so they started recycling. Also, the schools taught kids about recycling and how important it is. Now the whole family was on board. We led our state for 3 yrs.

... given Dubai's passion for overweight buffets and fast food halls in malls... must be an ideal place to capture valuable wastes into even more local and varied food... so nice catch of my old office in that closing exit shoot. : )))))

Moved from a city that did this to one that doesn't. It's crazy how much waste there is. I'm composting on my own property to avoid the dumping that the majority of residents do. We definitely need to try more universally to reduce our waste and make sure it ends up in the right place.

Our government in New Zealand is finally getting into the Process of doing this too 🕊🌏❤️

Andrew, I appreciate your content. Thanks for sharing these videos with us for free! Such a blessings.

I am soooo proud. I made a worm composter for me and my friends in our shared flat 🥰

Municipal composting is done a lot in Europe - however, many people reject the products. They are usually full of tiny plastic pieces and even very expensive machinery fails in extracting most of them. Research at my institute has shown that bags announced as 'compostable' decompose only under very special conditions - the company urged us to not publish the results but we refused. Too many lies, be honest... If you have a garden for yourself and a few chickens this is a very different story, you will take care, eat organic and build humus! CSAs can get clean kitchen waste from their members, too. Ralf Otterpohl, Author of 'Garden Communities' (with Andrew Toth), promoting the clustering of market gardens and permaculture.

Where I live in MT there is a small company that will pick up household and restaurant scraps. they do something similar and turn it into compost and then sell it to the public. I wish every town had one!

Yes love that others have imitated Carl Ham ers idea. Tremendous concept,loved therest numbers showing the waste of a state could possibly feed that same state.

Did I see bulls pulling a till? Love the lack of petrol but cover crops and armor on the ground is the way.

Splendid work, have you considered turning portion of the biomass and chicken droppings into biogas which you could use run the tractors/collection trucks(?)

The irony is that small gardeners/farmers like me, are always looking for more compost.

Great resource for communities to see what is possible, and at what scales. What is worth mentioning is that this also created jobs where they're most needed, that is within the intricate cycles of Carbon in the web of human activity.

Inspirational 💚🌍 storing water is everything Permaculture Design Course will increase your confidence. Food Forests are less labour intensive. Soil to be priced higher than gold in coming years.

Composting system starts at 2:45. He charges $1,600 for a cubic yard of worm castings.

@kenyonbissett3512

Жыл бұрын

Not regular compost, worm castings. Worm casting are more work with less output, so everyone charges more.

I've worked in college dining halls... holy moly is there a lot of food waste there.

I love compost. It teaches so much about nature and our place in it.

👍👍👍 beautiful guys. Tennessee needs this very little good soul in this state.

This is a simple DIY project that can be done at home by anyone, just the scale needs to change. I live in Minnesota, have both a large plastic container (with small air holes I punched) and a three part composter that you can buy for not much, both with composting worms (not the same as ones for fishing). Then just add plant based food waste and things like paper when you have some and let the worms do the composting. If you follow the rules there is zero smell. I keep mine in the basement because of the cold weather. (You can find many videos telling you what you can feed the worms.) In areas where there's no risk of freezing, you can have them outside all year.)

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Italy 😊

Great business model. Thanks for another excellent video Andrew.

Great story. 👍

For several years I got the food leftovers from a supermarket after closing. Somehow it bothered them, so they built a fence around their waste bins. Every evening a truck takes it to a landfill. 🙈🙈

@anarchosnowflakist786

Жыл бұрын

do you know if there are cameras ?

@carlvanmeerbeek7327

Жыл бұрын

@@anarchosnowflakist786 first they just fenced it, so I and several others climbed over, recently they put a roof as well. I spoke with the manager who told me it's company policy.

@anarchosnowflakist786

Жыл бұрын

@@carlvanmeerbeek7327 I mean, if you want to try there's always the lockpicking lawyer

glad you are making posts. you are a big inspiration for my future and the reason i have spent time learning about water capture and filtration/distribution. keep making the cool content and educating (including diagrams where possible cause they are very cool). have a good day :P

Excellent video, Lot to learn

Awesome

Super informative, well done!

I wanna support this!!

This is inspiring!

this is awesome

Fabulous ethos and doing great work. Small irony here: they're bagging up their finished compost for sale into plastic sacks. Nothing sustainable about that as those sacks are never recycled anywhere in the world that I can think of. They just end up in landfills or incineration.

the city i live in (Calgary AB) does this and gives it back to the community for free for a couple of weeks in spring , I'm assuming when the compost is ready. The city does tax us so technically it's not 100%.

Brilliant

Can you do a video on what to do if you have too much water? I don't live in a flood zone area but very close to one and have many retention ponds nearby. Any recommendations on how to protect yourself from future flooding?

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

This video I made from Mexico is about what to do with too much water: kzread.info/dash/bejne/amqb27lpprjThtY.html

@cakeabee3804

Жыл бұрын

@@amillison Thank you! I'll check it out

Hi! Do you give to the chicken the fresh green waste or you cure it first with the other stuff such as manure, mushroom spent? Thanks, Nelson

@carmenortiz5294

Жыл бұрын

Chickens in nature just eat "green garden waste" as part of their regular food, so you don't have to cure it. Just don't give them vegetables cooked in oils or fat. Or you could just put composting worms in a cheap plastic bin along with food waste, and other items (lists can be found on YT by just typing composting worms) and let them at it. No bad smells even indoors, if you follow the lists.

Nice! How do you work in winter? Same processes or do you need to adapt to lower temperatures?

how do you deal with plastics in the trash? No way everyone keeps all the plastics out...

Gokil prosesnya 👍

I don't understand - if the Abenaki people are the rightful owners of the land you are operating on, then why don't you give it back to them? Are you paying them rent?

@thatboyscotty

Жыл бұрын

Like every other farm, town, municipality, city, state et.al. that does this?

This should be the law for every state. Put our food scraps to good use

Both are a good idea. Plenty of waste for everyone.

🙌

More is wasted then used right?

Gold Garbage!👌

This is why we eat at home.

Great Story but why would you move this out of the city? There doesn't need to be this type of farm near the city, this needs to be IN THE CITY.

@nelsonolivera8059

Жыл бұрын

NIMBY (Not in my back yard to NIMBY Now in My Back Yard!!! If the city shred the food waste and mix with manure we, gardeners, would be glad to keep going with the process. We, gardeners, would want it in NIMBY - Now!

@ricos1497

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The biggest issue we have in the world is that we're separated from these processes. Being a human should mean being a gardener. Taking care of the planet doesn't come through recycling or paying someone to take your waste away, it comes from actually caring. All our issues arise because we're a domesticated species who has forgotten how to do these things. Our labours focused on some abstract alternative whilst we pay someone to do the important stuff that actually allows us to live. Not a criticism of this beautiful farm of course, working with the system they've got.

@carmenortiz5294

Жыл бұрын

Are you joking? No one in a city would want that type of operation next door to them. Plus in cases like this one you need large areas, since they compost large amount to food waste. All people have to do is go to the stores that sell the compost already bagged.

@carmenortiz5294

Жыл бұрын

@@ricos1497 You can always do it as a do it yourself project. Like I do, my worm bins are in my basement. I'm 77, not yet domesticated, lol.

NOT GARBAGE but food scrabs :)

I like the idea, but I do believe the transport necessary to set up and run these systems is way too huge. It also takes away the education and interaction with soil and nature if we were to take this away from the cities, let alone miss out on a huge amount of beautiful soil within city limits.

Millenials invent composter. Congratulations.

@carmenortiz5294

Жыл бұрын

Let me laugh and guess. You are a millennial. I'm a 77 year Baby Boomer and my grandparents were composting before I was born. I compost in my basement, since it goes below freezing here for months. You are as clueless as it gets. LOL

@memeoverlord-pz5ns

Жыл бұрын

@@carmenortiz5294 Whoooosh.

@carmenortiz5294

Жыл бұрын

@@memeoverlord-pz5ns Glad to educate you, and to think you thought you old little children invented it. There, there little one now you know.

@memeoverlord-pz5ns

Жыл бұрын

@@carmenortiz5294 "Whoosh" is the sound of joke flying over your head. When I said "millenials invented composter" I was sarcastic.

@carmenortiz5294

Жыл бұрын

@@memeoverlord-pz5ns Yes, it went over my head, because what you wrote is something a millenial would say. (I don't dislike all of them, just many.) Why? Because some years back they decided to attack Baby Boomer, and blame us of what OUR PARENTS did. We were the ones risking our lives to end a terrible war and give people whose "rights" did not really exist, real rights. Why did that happen? Zero knowledge of USA's history. We fought for a very long time, to then have some uneducated people attack us for something that had zero to do with us. The fact that the government turned schools into brain washing places was not an excuse, when the could have just look things up in the internet.