How Compost & Worm Castings are Made with Food Scraps & Wood Chips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2013
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Veteran Compost outside Baltimore, Maryland to share with you how compost and worm castings are made on an industrial scale. In this episode you will learn about the essential components of creating your own compost at home or on an industrial scale. You will also discover why removing food scraps from the waste stream (trash) is an excellent idea and how this turned into a business. You will see how to have fly free, bug free worm castings with no fungus gnats and other bugs.. Finally, In this episode you will learn how Justen created a job for himself and other US military veterans and their famlies and how you can too.
Learn more about veteran compost at
www.veterancompost.com
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It sure is a pleasure to have people like Justen right up the highway 20 minutes and the infamous John travel from the West Coast to show the apprieciation and keep us aware like you do.
Veteran Compost will have my business from now own.
I've gotten several truckloads of compost from Veteran Compost, and it is great stuff. You can really tell that they take pride in their work and their product. Love their service, love their mission, and LOVE their compost!
John Giedra I'm
Chris, he's waking us up to make sure we are paying attention!! haha, actually, I can listen to his style of teaching for hours, he just keeps the energy going, no boring lecture from him! He talk to you like a friend
Take a sip of beer everytime he says "compost". You will pass out.
I live in the area and bought a set up worm bin form Veterans and was very happy my bin. Thank you John for doing a video on these guys it is my go to place for compost.
Excellent informative video. Yes, we need more Veteran Compost in each State. This will help our Veteran having jobs at the same time enrich our environment with high nutrition soil for our gardeners and farmers. Cheers to our Veterans and Thank you for your Service!.
As a vet who composts and vermicomposts this is a great video!
lol, that poor little grub at 12:53 just wanted to climb up the compost pile. Why did you not aid him John? :D haha just kidding, great episode!
Hey it's MI...I follow you....cool company around these parts.
I know I can I know I can, oh crap, rolled back down again.
CORN MEAL MAKES EARTH WORMS BIGGER,AND KILLS PLANT DISEASES,EPSOM SALTS AND BAKING SODA,DISHSOAP AND BEER.TOBACCO KILLS RODENTS.
lol
I ordered a pound of worms from this company after watching this video...they came in the mail a few days ago....they are healthy and very active....thanks John and Veteran Compost
John thanks for highlighting Baltimore and Maryland. Hope you had fun!
I am a big time advocate for composting. I live in a small town where people are bringing leaves and grass clippings out to a burn site. I keep working to encourage people to begin composting - the whole process leads to a more joyful life.
So happy you did an episode on this, John! I've been buying from Veteran Compost since last year! Great compost.
We have compost bin in the back yard. I love it.. it's not much now but it's about 8" deep now, every day we put our food scraps in and cover them up. We had a ton of black soldier fly larva show up. Man, those things can clear out some food scraps. . I'm also a vet and this is great to know someone took action instead of relying on someone else to pay themAs always thanks for your videos, love watching
It's nice to see John's been visiting my area. I've bought worms and compost from these guys and was very happy. The number of worms was very generous and the compost was as good as I've seen anywhere. Thanks John and Veteran Compost!!
Thanks so much for featuring Veteran Compost, John! I live in MD and when I found out about them they were the ONLY place I wanted to get my worms from last year. :D They were very friendly and gave information on how to sustain a worm bin. I now have two compost bins going as my worms multiply and multiply. :)
The caterpillar at 12:50 was having fun - claiming up the hill, the rolling down with thrill, repeating it again and again. Otherwise why would it do it if not for fun? To show off on John's video? John does great job educating and inspiring public about living organic style. Cheers everyone!
All the lawns in our neighborhood were a little off this year and most everyone sprayed chemicals. We got 6 chickens and have just as green of a lawn and organic eggs in the morning. Double win! Thanks John we love your videos. Baltimore is a great town too! hope you had an enjoyable trip. Want to try Ohio?
I like how you show how composting and worm composting can be used in two steps. I've been doing both, not realizing I should join the two to make kick ass super compost. Thanks John!
Awesome veteran article. Glad to see vets succeed. If you were closer to me, I'd definitely buy your compost.
Great show John!
excellent video and thanks for the tips and tricks and info given. thank you for your service Justin
Great video with a lot of good info. Thanks for your helpful shows.
This is a great concept. My city and the surrounding cities are big on composting !! I have mine set up to bring te worms in! They do it so well :) I was able even to start rebuilding my soil using this method
John: You should be on TED talks! Wish I could travel around to places like this, permaculture sites, etc., like you!
He certainly has missed his calling I think.
You're a great communicator, thank you!
way to go john and jason!
great video!
I am lucky to have a worm farmer on site to provide me with all the castings I could need!
Great Video John...thank you very much. As a veteran I really appreciate the efforts of Veteran Compost. I logged onto their excellent website and have already found a product or two that I'll be ordering. They have a very easy to use website full of great products...give them a look.
John thanks for this very inspiring and awesome story. We will include it on Southeast Green too! Keep up the great work.
Great show! That is an amazing composting business and I love the fact they are wary of getting chemical fertilizers and pesticides into their products.
I agree with you John that rockdust would make the compost a complete nutritional source for your plants. I have been using Azomite in my compost mix for 7 weeks in my indoor garden and I really see a difference. I have no outdoor area at my apt. so everything is indoors and doing well.
This was a great tour, thanks Justin for sharing with us!
This is great, I live around Balto and I'm going to use this company.
What an amazing video. There's so much quality information, on such an important topic! Thank you very much for it.
I can't wait to get out of school, and get my own land to build my own homestead. I'm going to research the lay of the land on composting in my state, maybe its a viable business option!
Here in Southern Connecticut I love to walk in the woods and notice the "blooms" of worm castings along the paths and the large patches of worm casting where the skunk cabbage grows. I love earthworms and I'm fascinated by the cycle of growth where the worms eat up vegetation that dies to fertilize new growth.
OMG. I got my worm bin from them. They were super great and were responsive to questions afterwards too!
Great video!
Great stuff guys. Dave
Informative. Thanks.
I love seeing these places :) We have a big community composting site near me :) Doesn't take food waste I don't think but people from all around take their garden waste there and its piled up in piles like 20 foot high and turned into compost that folk can buy for £2 a bag :) They sell wood chip as well. 3 wagon loads of wood too thick to put through the chipper go to the local power station each week apparently to make electricity :)
good stuff john
really good video, subbed.
good video with great info.
Good lookin' compost.
great vid thank you!!
Worm castings is magical stuff!
Great video and great info! Thanks so much !
Who else noticed the little white creature just above Johns right shoulder climbing up and down the compost pile starting at 13:17 and goes until 15:40? It is quite entertaining watching the little bugger, but I wonder what type of creature it is?
Thanks for the video and info and thumbs up as always.
God bless.
Awesome!
Great show.........I have several large loads wood chips free,,,, mix them with pick up loads of manure from a dairy free.... pile up about eight foot high ..... after 1-3 years when the worms break it down I sift and use I use to add green sand now I have been adding rock dust azomite ...
you are so close to south jersey. once I get a place with a big yard ima have you come for sure!
You will get leaf humus or leaf mold. Leaves take a while to break down so it would be a good a good idea to add used coffee grounds as a source of nitrogen. You can get free bags of used coffee grounds with the paper filters from Starbucks. The filters will compost down too. They give the spent grounds away free to help the environment. Go to their website and look it up. Also use a lawnmower with a bag attachment to chop up and catch the leaves, they will compost faster.
Woo Hoo! First Comment! I love your videos John! Your videos are the most informational on TH-cam!
there was a huge compost pile north of town that spontaneous combusted due to the high heat produced. took over a month to put it out.
hahaha, that's the dangers none of the grow ur own stuff talks about, the dangers of composting! ^-^
But that's why compost should be turned at 65celsius, or else the compost material will loose volume and loose quality..
They actually ship their vermicompost via Local Harvest. You can follow the link from Veteran Compost's web site.
I started buying volcanic rock dust because of your videos. I'm sure I'll have a better garden next summer.
live in Aberdeen Maryland, never knew this place was here ...
Anyone else see the worm crawling around @14:00?
Devin Coyle THANK YOU! I thought I may be seeing things.
+Devin Coyle poor little guy just couldn't get up the hill. that was a big worm!
MORE POWER TO ORGANIC SOCIETY
catterpillar from 12:40 in the back of his back grabbed my attention.. :p look at the little fella go! go cattepillar Go!
Somniosus microcephalus So glad others saw itt.
was looking for this comment lol. funny.
Why you gotta yell and scare me at the beginning of every video? :D You have come a long ways John! I'm glad to see your still making videos!
I found an acre just East of DC in PG County. It was a LOT less expensive than Montgomery County. I drive to work in about 40 min. or by metro from New Carrolton in about 50 min. I am a mile outside the Beltway. If I had to do it again, I would look a couple miles further. A mile is not quite far enough from the noise depending on how the wind is blowing.
The caterpillar was having fun:-)
it is good and clean city
Did anyone else notice the white caterpillar in the background trying to climb that hill of compost when he was filling the compost bag??
hey praxxus and yes i agree
Hallo, du machst einen tollen Job. Weiter so, verbreite deine Message!
oh my gosh, LOL..."See John"..."See the Grub"..."See the Grub Upstage John for Many Minutes" 12:53
According to a study by Nova Scotia Agricultural College:
A 35S modified DNA sequence was detected in composted manure from
poultry layers fed diets containing genetically modified plant materials up to
three months after composting was initiated and in vermicompost at 4
months.
The results indicate that if composting is done well, modified DNA can be
degraded in four months. There is concern that modified DNA may persist
longer under less favorable composting conditions.
I would really love to set something like this up on our property in central PA. I would need some more information. How did they start getting all their material just start asking people for their waste?
Veteran Compost, you ever think about franchising your product? I think it would be awesome to open and run a place like this, but am unsure how to do it.
Feed the food scraps to Chickens first. They shorten the process making a better compost and give you protein. The remaining can be processed as done here. You can just leave the chickens run around they find their food.
Nice video
Can we prepare vermicompost from saw mill dust ( wood dust ) ?
Please reply
Thanks
Can you use compost and worm casting together in a container mix?
Hi John do you see the GIANT caterpillar behind you on the compostpile.
+charlie zicolillo I thought it was a mouse:)
that cattepillar really distracted me! :D
I liked that too.
I have a 100 gallon raisedbed smartpot. Im using kellogs blue ribbon, should I add wormcastings if so how much per bed .Thanks!
Fellow vet like me so THUMBS UP
Ah, thanks! Yeah, MoCo is crazy expensive and, while I haven't looked into it, I imagine there are a number of building codes that wouldn't allow the type of home I want to build. Like I said, I know a couple who's making it work in Kensington, though. Haven't thought about looking in PG, though, I'll look into it. I've also started looking in NoVa. We'll see...I gotta get the money first, lol.
that worm that keeps crawling up the hill...
Un gran desafío hacer crecer esta industria en el futuro #comportage
I'm in a bit of a drought right now, can I use salt water to compost?
Hi John. I cannot have a large compost pile in my yard and have it heat up the neighbors are very pesky where I live. If I just layer leaves and used coffee grounds with a layer of wood chips on top about 3 or 4 inches will this eventually turn into compost? I cannot add food, like I said I have pesky neighbors. I could water it frequently as well. What are your thoughts on this?
I have several cats and it bothers me that there doesn't seem to be a green way of dealing with the used litter. Any suggestions in choice of litter and / or composting techniques? I would use it only for non-food gardening just to be safe.
Speaking of chemical free yards and materials. I am going to top seed any grass in my yard with Dutch White Clover. Sweetens soil and produces nitrogen.
I started a compost pile in a large livestock trough and built it up using dirt and table scraps. I've never really added much carbon but the worm population has exploded and it's starting to look like hummus. How much carbon should I begin adding and how fast should I add it?
you have to choose alternatives.......example: instead of traditional spinach choose malabar spinach...tastes like spinach but thrives in warmer climates
Those oranges don't mess up the ph?
does anyone have any experience feeding finished compost to worms? Thinking of building a big worm farm to do this after seeing this video
he did say vet hiring is preferential, not really only, he did mention hiring family supporting vets as well. he is not hiring based on gender, sex pref, race.. it is just a line on the resume. just like a auto shop only hiring from a specific school. best qualified is always open to interpretation.
anyone else notice the giant white grub trying to get up the hill? 12:50 - 15:40 .. poor thing didn't get very far..
@ 21:24 Justin states he doesnt use grass clippings etc due to the chemicals, herbicides and pesticides that may be in the clippings but there are many chemicals used on food crops as well. How does he know that chemicals were not used on the food scraps, like the orange peals, that he composts? Just wondering.
Cut the back off the scoop put the bag over the back them scoop and fill.
#Team Maryland
can you please tell me at what temperature the the worms can live in a plastic bin?
Hi i live in triple digit number tempatures to and i was wondering how to i grow things that usually cant grow in hot temps? i can get them to live but they dont produce anything ... ive only eaten a tomato that i have grown . if u have any ideas can u reply? thanks
Hey, Jason, where in MD are you? I'm hoping to buy some land in the next couple years where I can do a whole permaculture/food forest/homestead set up but that's not too far from the city. I know a couple who have something going near Kensington but they've been hassled a bit about their compost pile. :/
"Vermicomposting appears to be inefficient at degrading modified DNA."
However if the worms are being fed properly composted materials then the vermicompost should be good.
You can't post links here but if you Google "Nova Scotia composting GMO" you can find the link and read the study yourself.
A load of oranges doesn't add too much acidity in the soil?
Wouldn't wood chips have chemicals just like grass clipping if the tree comes from someone's yard?
you have just scratched the surface of east coast organic farming. If you can muster it check out new englands organic farms!
Probably already been said, but when life gives you lemons, make compost.