The Work

Commitment...The better place
Healthy soil is the foundation of a good farm. It is a little bit cooler outside but as the grass starts to turn brown and the leaves change color, we are starting to think about what we are going to do over the winter.  We are taking into account what we can do next spring.  Even as the brown begins to take over, we are thinking about the green.

So now that we are here we are ready to get to work.  Theresa has been hard at work talking to local businesses about basically, what they throw out. Wasted food accounts for approximately 95 percent of landfill that is bad.  What is good is that waste can actually be collected and used for compost.  It gives us something to do over the winter, starting a massive compost pile.

"A good farm can be productive all year long and even when it looks like the fields are covered in snow, there are things hard at work to bring life the following year."

local coffee brewer cleaning out the roaster.

Every day or every other day in some cases, we are going to visit businesses to

5gallon buckets containing tea bags, lettuce, etc.

compost pile reaching 130-140 degrees.

Biodegradable cups breaking down over time.

collect their compostable stuff and use it for a type of fertilizer in our farm next year.  Our reach goes as far as Columbia where we are gathering from many different restaurants and coffee shops to divert garbage from the trash stream.  As cooks cut heads of lettuce, tomatoes, we gather it.  As that local coffee place brews your morning latte we get it.

We estimate that, done correctly, we can save over 100 tons of compostable material from the entire state of South Carolina. 

That is 100 tons of material that does NOT go into landfills.

After evaporation and breakdown, that is about 40 tons of compost and wait til you see what we are going to do with that.

20 percent is going to local community gardens.

A portion will be sold to go local landscapers, gardeners, etc.

A large portion will go into the ground at the farm. 

The foundation of the farm is the soil and so far we are off to a good start.