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all right. this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com.today we have another exciting episode for you once again. i'm traveling and i'm herechecking out another cool place and i'm currently here in houston, texas. and where i'm at inhouston is actually the fifth ward, and for those guys who don't live in houston the fifthward is maybe not the most upper class neighborhoods, a lower class neighborhood when that maybehas gotten forgotten about. i mean i was just walking down the street there and there'spiles of trash kind of sitting in the road. anyways some people might consider this placetrash, from today but i consider it gold. and where i'm at today is actually farm dirtcompost and they have a plant based, aerated compost and this is their little label here,02, and their hours of operation. if you want
to come here and buy their compost directly,its nine a.m. to three p.m. monday through friday and they also accept vegetative foodwaste and clean wood waste only. so yeah i mean besides just gardening, one of the mostimportant things for me as a gardener is to have good compost, whether that means you'regoing to make yourself like many of you guys already do, or you know in some cases i needmore compost than i could actually create myself. so i go out to visit places that makecompost for you on a much bigger and a grandiose scale. and that's why i'm here today, to sharethis valuable resource with all you guys that live here, in the houston area. even the surroundingcities or even if you don't live near houston, actually you can now mail order and get shippeddirectly to you, the farm dirt compost that
you are going to learn about today. now we'resitting outside their shipping container and i can say we're going to go inside the shippingcontainer and show you guys what's inside. but you know what, there's a packing shedand not much in there. what we really want to look at is a turn around to the yard here.and we're going to go out there and show you guys how they make the compost here in houston,using renewable resources that are a waste product for many companies. it's actually- let's go start out by the street and show you guys a really good overview shot of what'sgoing on here. so what we're looking at now, is i'm acrossthe street from farm dirt compost and as you guys can see behind me, you guys basicallyjust see a whole big pile or literally a wall
of wood chips happening. and this is one ofthe primary ingredients they use to make their plant based compost. so their plant basedcompost is made out of the wood chips and other you know tree leaves that are chippedup by landscape companies. the landscape companies then come here and pay a reduced fee to dumpthe chips here, instead of taken to the landfill where they basically just rot. and then they'recombined with another ingredient to make the plant based compost that they're making here.so anyway let's go ahead into the yard and show you guys up close a delivery of the woodchips they've got and then we'll show you guys the other plant materials that they useas a source to create their awesome compost here.all right so what we're looking at now is
one of the primary components of their plantbased composts, right. it's right here. its basically as i stand here setting up my camera,a big landscaping truck came in, and they dumped this up. they dump this right hereand what it is just shredded up wood chips or trees, with some of the leaves of the treesin there and it's already broken up into a smaller particle size so that can be easilycomposted. now the reason why i want to share with this episode with you guys today on thisparticular company doing this work, is because you know not all compost are created equaland so many times they get gardeners saying, "john, is this a good compost?" because idon't know there's no real legal definition of what a compost is right. actually somepeople would call this stuff, mulch what they're
doing here. actually all these piles on theoutside are actually mulch piles. but nonetheless i mean there's no really good term on whatcompost is and so i want you guys to be familiar with actually looking at compost to be ableto tell if it's a good compost or not. and i'll show you guys near the end of his videothe product they produce here which in my opinion is the good compost by not only lookingit, looking at it, feeling it, smelling it but by also asking for you know certain testreports to ensure they're making a good quality product. and unlike many compost that youguys may buy in the store right. they screen it to a nice size, which we'll cover in theepisode and they also don't add inexpensive fillers. some of the places i've visited thatmake compost, they'll add fillers like sand
to their compost which you know basicallynow you're paying a lot of money for sand and so while this compost here may cost alittle bit of money at present time. it's like eighty-five dollars a yard. you knowit's definitely worth it because it's not like you know; it's cut with sand. so likewhat, say you buy compost for forty-five dollars a yard, or half the price, but it's 50% percentsand. well that's the same price you're getting now you're buying sand. hope its good washedagriculture sand, not just some cheap sand that they're just using as a filler, or addingother filler products right. and the other thing that i like here, is that this is onehundred percent plant based compost. this is their only use in you know the wood chipsand fruit and vegetable scraps that we'll
see in a minute, to make the compost and inmy opinion right to grow fruits and vegetables and fruit trees. we want to feed the plantswhat they're made out of, which is fruits and vegetables and trees right. the best foodfor trees is other trees. the best food for fruits and vegetables are other fruits orvegetables because the fruits and vegetables took up everything it needed. and then whenit composted and decayed down, right, there's this nutrition that the plant needs. of courseyou know depending on the source of the fruits and vegetables i would also add other traceminerals, which i'll talk about a bit later in this episode. any case, next let's go overto an area where they're getting the shipments of the fruits and vegetables that they usethe compost down. unfortunate because i am
here in a saturday and normally they onlytake deliveries on monday through friday. they don't have any fresh materials to showyou. but i'll uncover some buried material. so besides the wood chips that you guys justsaw, they get dumped off by the tree trimmers. the other valuable source of plant nutritionthey're getting, comes in bins like this among other ways, from the local produce row herewhich is the wholesale produce market here in houston. they get about one hundred ofthese little tote things here filled with you know, rotten fruits and vegetables andpieces of the chopped up fruits and vegetables right. and this is just basically the wasteproduct of the produce industry and instead of going to the landfill which where rotsand creates copious amounts of methane gas
and other gases, here it is composted properlyto create less of the different gases. but more importantly instead of just rotting ina landfill and never to be used again, it gets turned into good nutritious organic compost,that can be added to farms, gardens, your local shrubs and trees and even your lawn,to increase their growth because compost is the original way that nature fertilizes thetrees, shrubs, the fruits and the vegetables, the ornamentals, the edibles, all the plantswork on compost. and when we start trying to feed these synthetic fertilizers, thatwe think man is more intelligent than nature with these water soluble nutrients right.we're subverting the whole natural cycle of things and the compost, so i think especiallyin this day and age it's critical for companies
like farm dirt to take some of these wasteproducts that would end up in the landfill to make a valuable product out of it, to revivethe local community and more important, us gardeners a good quality compost because ivisit a lot of places and man, a lot of places they're not making good quality compost likethey are here. so once they get, you know these bins from the produce row they combinethat with other produce waste products from other sources, so this business actually startedwhen the owner, or one of the owners called the whole foods up and said you know hey isee you chop up all the produce and you have rotten produce that you're thrown out everyweek. hey can i get some of that produce to compost for my personal garden and whole foodslike, no you know there's like liability issues
and all this kind of stuff, anyways one ofthe owners has a yard in a landscaping company to like make compost and then he called thatwhole foods you know later, and said hey well i have a facility to take your compost oryour food scraps to compost. and then once whole foods are, oh you have a facility, thenthey knew some of the legal issues might be you know diverted and then they're like yeahyou get our compost and now, you know that was three years ago when they started thisbusiness and oh i do want to say that if you think john that place you're visiting looksreal familiar. i saw you're on an episode of the last organic outpost in houston andyou visited the same yard. well right at that time i showed this yard because this is thecompost of the last organic outpost uses,
but it's a separate entity making compost,you know for next, the next door neighbors and the community at large to purchase andbuy and to you know sustainably you know reduce the amount of waste going into the landfill.and i think that's a big challenge in this society that we live in. we live in a disposablesociety. right. and i want you guys to be producers instead of consumers right. produceyour own compost instead of come here, but of course if you can't do that you know andproduce your own, come here and support them, because they are producing something thatwould normally you know just went to the landfill and been more of a you know in that wholeconsumption, mass consumption craziness cycle we have. so yeah they got they get the wholefoods produce crafts as well as the local
school district right. the local school districthere wants to be the one of the greenest school districts and they're working with differentschools in the school district to take their compost and then compost that here and createan amazing compost. so anyways let's go ahead and show you guys how the process specificallyworks with composting the wood chips and the food scraps.all right so what you're looking at now, is an active compost pile i'm sitting on it andi could actually feel that it is nice in warm. so what they do is they take proper ratiosof the wood chips and the food scraps and they basically pile it up. and normally youknow, they pile extra wood chips on the top, to keep all the bugs and the flies down, ifthey're doing their job properly. maybe this
area, maybe could have a few more wood chipson top and let's go ahead and dig underneath here and see what we could find. all rightso what i'm finding is i'm finding a lot of the beer mash, so that the brewery processplaces that make brews and things they have the waste, kind of smells like oatmeal. andthen underneath here we look further we find like big pieces - wow this is actually quitewarm - of a watermelon and just the other fruits and vegetables in this mixture here.we're going to go and try to mix that back up for 'em. but basically that's what compostingis. right you add some carbons and the right ratios of nitrogen. the carbon in the woodchips, the nitrogen is the food scraps and some of the leaves and what not. and composthappens. so composting is not rocket science
right. one of the great sayings is that composthappens even if you don't get the ratio right. everything will break down over time. thatbeing said, its very important to them here at farm dirt to you know, minimize their compostingcycle time. because they get shipments in every week. lots of materials in and they'vegot to, as fast as they move this material in, they want to be moving it out, otherwisethey're going to outgrow their small little space here. so they've done procedures andthey're constantly improving their process to make it more efficient. since i've beenhere just a couple years ago looks like they're really improving their process a lot. andthey've got some upcoming changes that they talked to me about, that is even going toyou know take them to the next level. but
i might mention you guys later in this episode.anyways one of the processes is to increase the productivity and decrease the amount ofoverall processing time is a ration of the piles, that cut off a week from their totalprocessing time, which is from apples as they come in, rotten apples, to the dirt that goesout, its sixty days. so you guys at home should be able to produce a good compost in sixtydays. i've been able to do it in the limit over a month, with my 13:17 composters buteven on this massive industrial scale where they just have piles and piles of wood chipsand food, in under sixty days. you know they have a finished compost product to sell. soyeah let's go ahead over to you know, one of the ways they speed up the composting process.so one of the ways they speed up the composting
process, is by active aeration what you seein this little box here, little house and that's not a dog house. it's a blower house.so this house, houses a blower that has electricity plumbed into it. and they say there's blowercomes out into this big p.v.c. tubing, then goes down and as you guys can see it justgets distributed down into these big pipes that then have a perforated tubing go underneaththe compost piles that you know, are maybe five, six, feet tall and basically that forcesair underneath it and forces the air up through the compost. and what this does, this feedsthe microbial action in there right. the compost bacteria love air and when they get air, it'slike us eating some chocolate cake. well, i don't recommend chocolate cake, eating somechocolate persimmons and we're so happy and
so excited and we're full of energy. we coulddo a lot of stuff. well when the bacteria get air, they work overtime and they're sohappy. they're working faster so they can shave a week off. their, you know the timethat it takes to make the compost, because that's what it's all about here. improvingprocesses to make the time of the inputs coming in, and going out shorter, so that they couldactually start producing more in less time. now the next thing i want to do is actuallytake you guys over to another space in the yard and show you guys another tip they'llbe soon using to decrease the composting time. so here i am again sitting on a mound of notcompost, but activated mulch. this mulch here is not just the standard mulch that you'dbuy of wood chips right, even though it looks
like nice and dark and brown like some ofthem things are painted right, your local big box store. this is actually activatedmulch. and what this is, is they take their finished compost product, they run it throughtheir sifter that i'll show you guys in a minute and sift out all the quarter inch andbelow small particles. this is what gets bagged up and sold to you right. a lot of compostplaces might only sift down a half inch, and then they're leaving a lot of chunks. i don'tlike a lot of chunks in my compost. so all their chunks go into big piles like this,that they, they then they sell as activated mulch i think its about forty-five dollarsa yard. and this is the mulch that you guys want if you guys want to like add nutrition.but also a mulch to your fruit trees and other
trees around your property right. the reasonwhy this is activated, is because it's already gone through the composting process, it wasin one of those big piles that i saw you, that you guys saw earlier. but it's not thefinished product they're selling directly. this is basically, while it does have a lotof little fine particulate compost still in there, this is a larger chunk. but these largechunks have already been inoculated with the bacteria in the fungi that's in there as youlook at it. and as i'm looking at it now there's bacteria and fungi working on this stuff breakingit down and breaking up the constituent parts into plant nutrients for your trees and shrubsand things like that right. so if you are going to be using a mulch right, instead ofjust getting wood chips that are not a knock
later even start to break down yet, and youhave to go through that process, it be a lot wiser to get something like this it's alreadyhas the process. now why am i telling you this? because when they start a new pile ofcompost they take a good percentage of this inoculated mulch stuff, that actually hasthe activated bacteria and fungi and all the little microorganisms that make the compost.they add this to the wood, the virgin wood chips and the food scraps so that now, itbasically kicks starts the process, kind of like using a starter culture, if you're doingfermented foods. and this is another thing that i recommend for you guys as home gardeners,making your own compost right. you could use your, your mulch that you screened off yourlast batch of compost, but i like to put in
a scoop or two of my last batch of compostin my new compost, that'll just make things happen a lot faster.i don’t know if you guys can see this, but as you guys can see there's like compost wallabove me. maybe i should have maybe move the camera back a whole bunch. but there was abig whole compost wall behind me. this stuff is not quite ready, but it's getting readyto get harvested and then sifted out and then sold to one of you guys out there. but basicallyi want to show you guys this is because you know they got a nice lot of fungal hyphae,that’s all like i don't know if you guys can see, but it's like a white you know, inthe compost instead of being dark, black and white. so this is definitely a really goodsign. now the other thing that they're not
yet doing that they hope to implement soononce they get a seventy-two-hundred-dollar piece of equipment, is they're going to startto process their incoming food scraps and grind it to a smaller particle size that willcreate more surface area. and at the same time they're going to pull off some of theexcess liquid off the produce. that then they could take and use to inoculate their, youknow and make compost teas and inoculate their soil and so the don't have to deal with somuch extra liquid in their compost and they could really dial in the amount of wood chipsto ground up plant matter, or you know, fruit and vegetable scraps. so this is a reallycool and that's going to help them save time, because once again, once things are brokendown more for the bacteria, it's going to
make it more easy for them to digest it, andyou know finish the process of composting. now you know, i talked to them about this,and they're not going to be basically shredding up their wood chips, they have done you knowstudies on grinding up their food scraps which worked really well. and they have home foodscraps grinders for those guys do home composting to speed up your composting process. but theydon't want to grind up the wood chips because they found out when they did this, there wasn'tenough airflow in there because the wood chips you know, provide a lot of nooks and cranniesin there. and when they grind up the food scraps, the food scraps will now attach tothe different pieces of wood chips and compost faster, is what they're thinking and it'llbe more efficient in their process and be
able to save actually a lot of space and somay be able to move it more, more you know, wood chips in and more importantly, move itout quicker. alright the next thing i want to do, is actually show you guys some of thefinished compost that they produce here, that has not yet been screened.so now i'm sitting on another pile of what, plant based compost. i hate it when i go toplaces that have like cow bays to manure bays, chicken shit based compost. because it's alot smellier than here. here actually like this finished compost that i'm sitting on,i mean it basically has no smell. maybe i smell a little bit of wood something but mostlyit's no smell and i want to encourage you guys as gardeners out there, you know to feedyour plants other plants. so i encourage you
guys to use plant based compost in general.it's a lot safer to use then animal manure based compost. why is this? well there canbe many challenges with animal manure based compost, a lot of the stuff you buy at a bigbox store is number one, coming from the animal agriculture industry where they're feedingthe animals gmo based corn and soy. and feeding them antibiotics and things like that whichis not good because all that is going into the compost you guys are buying. and that'sgoing in your food. in addition, they may be feeding you know or spraying on the g.m.o.corn or soy, things like roundup, things like bio solids, things like chemical fertilizersthat may have heavy metal contamination. so that stuff gets run through the cow or thepig, the chicken, in the animal and then when
you eat the animal then you're getting somethat contamination, but it also comes out in their poop. so now when you're spreadingthe poop on your garden now you may be getting some of that contamination as well. and let'snot talk about e. koi or other you know harmful bacteria that may be present in animal basedmanures, if not properly composted or if used in their raw state. and finally of coursewith animal based manure, you know you have a higher probability of burning your crops.i've never burn my crops with a plant based compost here and actually the compost herethey recommend even you can plant your vegetables in it straight. and you know try that withsome manure based compost. you know in general it's not going to be as successful as if youuse a plant based compost and that's why i
prefer a plant based compost. and of courseif you could source and make your own animal manure or composting you know the ingredients,you know hey that's pretty good but hey i still like the plant based compost myself.because that is the natural system no where in nature do we find big mounds of animalmanure that's being used to grow food. there are copious amounts of plant materials usedto grow other trees and plants in the forest but there's no big piles, you know shit inthe forest. maybe some you know poop here and there from animals that are in the forestthat will be mixed in with all the plants but no, you know not the massive amount ofpoop that's generated due to the massive you know, a calf o's and big industrial animalagriculture where there just really needing
to get rid of the animal excrement or poop,that may actually cause challenges with runoff and all these things as well. so yeah, sohow do you tell if something's a good compost, because i mean happens a lot. john is thisa good compost and so he sends me pictures or somebody sends me description. this iswhat's in the compost. you know this and this and this and this. you know and by lookingat something, i can't tell you how good it is, because it's not, it tells me what's shouldbe in there but didn't tell me what is actually in there until i pick it up see it, look atit and smell it right. in this compost here i mean, i can see here that this compost isjust really nice rich and black. you know unlike some companies actually may spray thingson their compost to get it to turn darker,
so that you think it's a really rich compost.they don't do none of that here i'll tell you firsthand they don't have the money tobuy anything extra to do here. they're basically on a shoestring budget, just trying to keeptheir bills paid and keep this operation of flow which is quite sad to me and that's oneof the reasons i wanted to make this video for you guys, you guys can support them becausethey are doing the right thing and i want more companies like composting company herefarm dirt to pop up in other cities and other countries even in the world, because thisis really the solution to some of the waste that's being produced, some of the you knowvegetative waste matter, wood chips and food waste that account for a big percentage ofwhat's going to the landfill and this can
be diverted to you know create less gasesbeing emitted into the atmosphere, and to create a valuable product so that more peopleand farms could grow food with basically the broken down plant material. so yeah i meanjust looking at this stuff it's nice, rich and black and this is the green material hereright. i would never buy this for my garden it's a big problem with a lot of compost isee. they have a lot of woody matter in there and when places don't filter out the woodymatter, basically that means they're making more money off you because they're addingthings that are going to necessarily be totally ready for your garden to use right now. andthat's why i like that at this place they screen their finished compost. its what i'msitting on and also i'm seeing a lot of that
fungal matter with the white in here, thefungal hyphae’s, they screen it down to a quarter inch. so let's go ahead and takea look at the machine that they screen their compost with as well as the finished sexycompost they make here. all right so what you're looking at now arehuge gigantic compost sifters and this is one tool that i don't yet have and i wouldlike to get. i don't think i need one this big here this is for their operation and asyou guys can see it's got a nice quarter inch screen on it. they basically put the compostthat i showed you guys just a minute ago up in this big bin right there. they turn thismachine on and it runs and basically all the finish compost drops out the bottom and thenall the chips in, that you know inoculated
mulch comes out the other end and for thoseyou guys are looking up to start an operation, you want to get one of these guys. this iscalled the settler made in canada. they work really good this thing's never broken on themand they're at aglobalrepair.ca is their website because i know a lot of people, you know getthese industrial things and they break down. so yeah this is definitely a well made unithere. let's next i want to go ahead and show you guys some of the screened material that'scoming out that is being rejected from the compost the finished compost they sell here.all right so what we're looking at now is end of the compost are here and we're lookingat is all the reject materials. so as much as this was rejected from you know the badcompost they offer you know they're still
going to use this stuff. the stuff is stillquite viable. you know and as you guys you guys learned earlier, they inoculate, theyuse this stuff that's already been pre-inoculated and still has a plenty of you know of materialin here, that's you know under a quarter inch in my opinion to inoculate their new pilesand then also they make this stuff available for you guys you know to use as mulch underneathyour trees to you know prevent you know water evaporation and all this kind of stuff. soyeah this is probably one of the best things you guys can put underneath trees and shrubs,you know because it is starting to break down and i mean that's what the goal of you knowfeeding trees, other trees and wood chipping right you can put a virgin wood chips butit takes a lot longer to break, break down
than one that's already you know been throughthe process. i guess the next thing i want to do is actually i want to show you guyssome of the finished compost. they just finished up the last batch that they did so i thinkthere's a little bit of remnants that i can actually show you guys of what their finishedcompost looks like and share with you guys more about what to look for in a compost whenyou buy it. so this is what's left of, this is their areaonce it gets screened it goes into here and this is the bagging area, and the area thatthey sell the finished compost. i don't know if you guys can see it, but basically we justgot a nice pile right here behind me and we'll do a close up for you guys. this is what agood compost should look like right there.
see that it's nice rich in black. right. thisis a screen to a quarter inch size so that i like that a lot. there's not the big piecesof wood chips or bark and all this other stuff that they had in there. this is pure compost.i mean it kind of looks a little bit like dirt. but this is not in dirt and you smellit and it actually has a nice earthy smell, it doesn't stink, it doesn't smell, like itdoesn't smell like wood chips anymore. actually to me the smells like you're in the forest.i should be cool. i want to make a bed out of like fresh compost and like a lie in itevery night. i think that'd be refreshing right. i don't know that be weird. i thinkthat's how we would live like we lived in nature. we didn't have these artificial mattresseswith polyester and other stuff. i think i
might have to try that, but yeah they're stillsmell just, smells really good right. and the other thing you want to do is you wantto take a look at the texture, look at this, see that texture there. i mean this is notwet at all, it flows really easy and it's not quite as thin as sand. you know a lotof companies will cut their stuff with sand and you want to take some between your fingersand feel it. roll it like this. it should kind of even if it's not super way it shouldkind of roll into a ball. if you're rolling it like this and you feel like grains in yourhand like sand like if you're at the beach then they're cutting with sand, that's nota good thing. and by doing this test. i could tell they're definitely not doing that here.and so smell you know, should smell earthy.
you want to do the grit tests. no grit inthis stuff you want to you know try to roll it into a ball, you want to just you knowmake sure it has a nice consistency. you know little chunks, no big pieces of stuff anda nice rich and black just like that right. i've seen a lot of compost they're just kindof like tan in color and they have sand. and these are all ways you could actually physicallylook at, and tell if it's good or not. right. and aside from that, you know these are somegood indicators but these indicators can always be tricked. they can spray stuff on theircompost to make it look black and people do all kinds of stuff to cheat the system butwhat is not cheating the system is what i want to show you guys, that actually haveyou guys ask for next right. and you know
they have soil testing so most tests thatare done on compost are npk testing which is standard nutrient testing. and most placeswill have this right. but you know while those are good tests right i want you guys to askfor the extra curricular activity tests, which actually most places do not have, but i believethey should if more people start asking for them. maybe they would get them and what thistest is here on the phone here. it's actually called the earth fort biological analysissoil amendment. and this the kind of gardening i teach. i teach biologic organic gardening.and that's why you know this is even more important than just the n.p.k. numbers areyou know aside from adding the nutrients, which the compost does as nutrients. the reasonwhy i'm really on the compost is for the bacterial
and fungal action in the compost because theseare your free labor force. they are your slaves. compost you are my slaves right here. theseare my slaves. they can sue you for you being their slaves once you own them. but anywaythey're your workers they're going to basically break down the organic matter that's stillleft in the compost as well as break down the organic matter that's in your soil, inyour garden and turn it into nutrients for your plants in a non water soluble state sothese nutrients will not wash away like chemical nutrients will and what the biologic analysissoil amendment testing here does, it basically tells you about all the different bacteriaand fungus in there. so for example, you know if you don't know how to read these are rightbecause they have a reference range and you
just want to make sure most of the numbersare falling within the reference range. now you know depending on the kind of compostnot every number is always going to be within the reference range some might be abnormallyhigh and some might be in a range some of a bit low but as long as most of them arein range. you're pretty good. and of course there's always going to be numbers that arehigher which is really good. so the best thing to do would be get more to source of compostswith different you know things that are high. so for example this compost here is a reallyhigh end amoeba’s amoeba has the ranges from ten thousand to like a hundred thousandand this is like i don't even know it's like ten million. it's like some crazy ass bignumber. i can't even read a number that big
it's kind of insane it's like pushing thelimits of how high the amoeba is can get you know over here we're looking at the activebacteria in the active bacteria the expected ranges between three and thirty the activebacteria on this step is six hundred thirty one and on the total bacteria the total bacteriais expected ranges between three and three thousand and the number for this compost issix thousand four hundred eighty four the active fungi you know like i showed you guysare not the white fungal hyphae’s in there. the active fungi are the ranges between threeand thirty and this is twenty-four point eight. so this is on the high side of the range.so that's a really good. of course some other numbers are limit low but you know what. notevery compost could meet all these different
criteria. so for you know a plant based compostyou know fruit and vegetable companies would shift this is running really good. of coursein addition to this i would encourage you guys to get a fungal dominated compost thatreally focuses on the fungi. and you know aside from the place here, that's inside thecity limits of houston, not too far for you guys to drive if you guys want to go to aplace that i visited that has really good compost also but it's a lot further. it'sin conroe texas known as nature's way resources. if i remember, i'll put a video up, with alink to the video i made there, at their place and besides having a plant based compost likehere which is going to be different, you know they also have a fungal dominated compostin there which is one of the things i'd recommend
for you guys to you know do a mixture of thefungal plus the bacterial compost they have here. i guess the final step i want to showyou guys actually what this looks like when it's all bagged up and actually share withyou guys a special way. all my viewers get a special discount on this awesome compostthat i share with you guys today. so now i want to share with the guys the finishedproduct here at farm dirt, in the plant base eroded compost you guys saw the whole processof how they make this as well as a lot of tips you know that they use here that youguys could also use for composting at home. now if you guys want to get some of this amazingcompost that i should do with you guys today that i actually use myself because on previoustrips i've actually gotten this compost and
i took it back to the west coast with me touse it in my very garden to plant things in and it works great. definitely some good stuffi could totally vouch for it. i hooked you guys up with a special discount. this is soldhere in the houston area at some better garden centers, but you could go there and pay fullprice but if you want to get the special gyg discounted price, you're going to have tocome here to farm dirt on a meal when they're open or see them at the farmer's market thati was just at today. i think it's on like saturdays on richmond, and see i'm there mentionthe g y g code. you're going to get a special discount, this normally at this time. andthis may be something to change. sells for nine dollars as the regular price but if youmention the gyg discount you're going to get
a bag one cubic foot for seven bucks and idon't think i could make it for that cheap at home actually. that's definitely a goodprice. if you guys want to get a cubic yard they're not like making a ton of this stuffright now but also give me a call, mention the gyg discount. they'll hook you up witha special discount that i pre-negotiated with them right and what i really want you guysto know is that they're making a good quality product here. there may be other places thatmake compost in the houston area and other places and they may be cheaper in price butyou know what a lot of times, you guys get what you pay for. this is not always truebut it's definitely true here. you know you're going to pay you're going to pay some moneyfor the compost here, but you're definitely
getting some good stuff that's going to growsome healthy vegetables, fruits and even ornamentals for you and your family. so i always encourageyou guys if they've got some good stuff support them, and support places that are doing goodwork like diverting so much of the, you know food scraps and yard waste that would normallyjust go to the landfill. so i really applaud them for the work they're doing here. thisis some dirty work because the last time i was here. it was raining there, you know theirtractors were stuck in the mud and i was just getting hammered with rain and it just wasn'ta fun day but they're out here working man. like seems like every time i come out herethey're out here working. and you know doing really good stuff here to help the city ofhouston be more sustainable but also help
us local gardeners. now for those you guysthat don't live in houston, don't worry. i've also hooked you guys up right. farm dirt compostis now also just starting to sell, online. and of course the online price is going tohave to be more expensive than the price that you get locally, because they got to shipit and the shipping actually costs more, unfortunately than the compost does. but nonetheless youguys mention the gyg code, put that code in on the website. it's going to give you guysa special discounted price, so that you guys, no matter where in the fifty states you live,they're going to send you a priority flat rate box stuffed full of their good plantbased compost, that you guys learned about today.so yeah that's pretty much it. i'll post links
down below to other websites. you guys canget some of this amazing compost. i'm going to be sure to take some of this compost homewith me today, to use again in my gardening because its some of the best stuff and giveto my you know, my girlfriend's parents. garden that's here locally. they've been growingin it too because i got some of that for them last time and their stuff is growing amazing.so you know, once again i always encourage you guys to support local compost companiesthat are making good products when you can. and after watching this episode you know somethings to look for, when you guys go to buy compost and hopefully this will help you know,minimize the questions i get. john is this a good compost? i mean, i got to go there,see how they make it, look and see and that's
the other big thing that's important for me.you know, you want to always ask the compost company, "hey! can i come down and see yourfacility, see how you make it?" right, and if they're just like, "yeah! come on down,we'll share with you. you know, that's good because they're open source, they have nothingto hide, right. but it's the companies that say, "oh no. we don't want you to come downhere, we don't want you to bring your camera." those are the companies i'm quite worriedabout because like, why don't they want me there. what do they have to hide, what don'tthey want you to know, what are they putting your compost that they don't want you to knowabout right. so i'm really glad that they have an open door policy year and they showedme around you know, showed me everything and
i got to snoop around and see all kind ofstuff happening here right. they've got nothing to hide. so yeah definitely some good compost,some of the best compost, i've found here inside the city in houston. so if you guysenjoyed this episode learning more about compost, how you guys could make it yourself and howyou guys can get some of the best compost here in houston and in all of texas, pleasebe sure to give me a thumbs up in future episodes when i come back to houston. i'll come byand make more episodes, maybe interviewing some of the compost makers and owners andall this kind of stuff. also be sure to click that subscribe button right down below, tobe notified of my new and upcoming episodes coming out every three to four days, you neverknow where i'll be showing up, or what you'll
be learning on my youtube channel. and besure, finally to check my past episodes out over twelve and up episodes now, a wealthof information of the different compost yards, how to compost at home yourself, how to growyour food all aspects so that you guys can be more sustainable and grow food for youand your family, instead of eating out of the grocery store. maybe you're eating outof the grocery store second hand, because you're getting the compost made here. in anycase that's my mission. hope you guys enjoy this episode. i got to get going. once again,my name is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com we'll see next time, and until then, rememberkeep on growing.
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