John Crockett's Blog on Composting

Promoting Professionalism in Composting

A thriving economy, vibrant health for all, peace and environmental sustainability, can we have it all? YES, we can, when we focus on dancing in harmony with Nature and one another, co-creating for our common well being

clock May 22, 2010 14:47 by author John

Collectively, society, the human species needs visionary investors to invest in regional food composting facilities, combined with our technologies for efficient, neighbor and environmentally friendly composting.

This is regional infrastructure vital to creating a sustainable future for humanity. The benefits go far beyond reducing "waste". The finished compost can restore health to the soil, so the soil can yield more food with a far higher nutrient density. Chemical / industrialized agriculture as too commonly practiced, is counter productive, yielding nutrient deficient mass that cannot possibly support a healthy immune system in those fed on that "phude" (adulterated food).

Mother Nature provided for abundance. Ponder the number of kernels on an ear of corn, each a seed with the potential of creating another ear of corn. IF only 5% of those seeds are saved, and yield an ear of corn each, and if there are 300 kernels, average, per ear, that is 1500% increase in a single growing cycle, over two growing cycles, 225X, and over 3 growing cycles, 3,375X. Yes, Nature provides for abundance. We, YOU and I, have to become stewards of the soil, and responsible managers of our resources.

We look forward to expanding our plant growth research, and from what we have already done, we KNOW that our compost yields awesome results, that there is NO need for the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We KNOW that organic can yield far more nutrition, better health, a far more sustainable system.

We recognize that there have been many composting operations that have not been good neighbors, that have released foul odors, and some that have endangered ground water quality. We recognize that many composting facilities have been only marginally profitable, or not even that.

We believe that food composting should be done on a concrete composting pad, under roof, with aeration veins built into the composting pad, with the aeration system designed to harness the proven ability of our Dynamic Bio-Filters to eliminate all foul odors. Our number crunching consistently says that to be financially sustainable, economy of scale means it’s got to be regional, over 600tpd. (Tons per day coming in) and the tipping fee has to be over $55 per ton coming in.

 

We've had corn grow to over 12' tall in some of our compost amended soil, so we know it is possible.

While composting is a ‘natural process’, commercial composting, and particularly food composting, requires uncommon knowledge on much more than just how to eliminate foul odors, and front end marketing. We started composting in 1993, and I can tell you that we’ve learned a lot since then, that it is not nearly as simple as we thought it was going to be.

Waste is a human invention. There is no waste in nature. There is tremendous potential in food waste and capturing and unleashing that potential takes visionary leadership and investors.

 

 

While in many industries managers recognize the importance of checking up on their production workers, in composting, since our primary production workers are microbes, checking up on them is significantly more challenging, requiring a powerful microscope and working understanding of the associated laboratory procedures. Without being able check up on the microbial master composters is ‘working blind’, and inhibiting the ability to become more efficient. We’ve invested in the ability to check up on our workers, to enable us to better empower those naturally occurring microbial master composters, and have found over 5.47 billion in a single teaspoonful of early stage compost.

We’re looking for a few special people who are skilled at growing startups, that would like to be part of a team that will provide massive value to society and our environment, enjoy the process, and share in the well earned profit that will be the byproduct of our vision, our providing massive material benefits to society and our environment.

If you’re that kind of person, or can help lead us to that sort of person, please contact us. More information can be found at http://www.magicsoil.com and http://www.magicsoil.com/success.

John Crockett, CEO
Mother Nature’s Farms
Carmel, New York
jac@magicsoil.com
1 (845) 225-7763

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Empowering the naturally occurring microbial master composters

clock January 18, 2010 23:34 by author John

While 'composting' is a natural process, when we start to compost large volumes of food residuals, preventing foul odors takes resources that are very uncommon; and a team that knows how to, and is totally committed to preventing any foul odors being released.

I've heard that keeping the oxygen above 15% will prevent foul odors.  I can tell you from first hand experience, that when composting food residuals, even with oxygen being maintained at or above 17%, there can be significant foul odors from the early stage compost.  AND, that is where our Dynamic Bio-Filter technology delivers excellent results, capturing the plant nutrients, and breaking down the odorous compounds to odorless compounds

Active Bacteria & CO2It was January of 1996 that we did our first Oxygen Depletion test at Old Salem Farm, in North Salem, New York, and discovered to our amazement that when we turned off the aeration blower, the microbes crashed the oxygen from 19% down to 2% in just 15 minutes.   Later hands-on in-house research documented a significant relationship between the level of CO2 in the off-gas, and the population of active bacteria in the compost.  Samples 2536 & 2540 were from a passively aerated windrow of yard wastes.  The rest of the samples were compost that was on full time forced aeration. 

We've got over 15 years of hands on experience working with forced aeration.  Team profit sharing and strong team leadership, combined with facility features like our Dynamic Bio-Filters, protect our respect from the neighbors and community.

We first developed our Dynamic Bio-Filter technology in 2002, and it's proven its effectiveness, efficiency.  We know how to maintain the system so that it meets the challenges.  There is no substitute for years of hands on experience, combined with a passion for excellence.

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