Is anyone aware of a local compost company or nursery that might want to use a portion of our spent grains/yeast for compost?
The following article got me thinking that there are other uses for our brewery waste beyond just feeding livestock.
http://beeractivist.com/2007/04/15/grains-of-possibility-ways-to-use-spent-brewing-grains/
Why don't you compost it yourself?
If you find one, let me know. I have been looking for several years. All the waste haulers avoid it as too complicated and not a money maker. Yet, I see it done in other parts of the country. May need a government "incentive" to get it done.
Here I was thinking, this was another piece on City Hall! Sorry.............could this waste be treated as Biomass and used for power? I do know there are several industries which do just that..............JEA would love to have a competitor for your power meter!
Maybe Sustainable Springfield?
Brewery waste is supposed to be as good as leaves, although it is wet
Tobacco stems and debris are supposed to be good, Swisher comes to mind as a source.
Unfortunately, Skinner Nurseries has apparently substantially downscaled, someone like that could have been an end user.
Most anything organic is good for the plants. Tobacco is REALLY good as a watery juice, it repels all types of bugs. Formula;
1 gallon water
1 can beer
2-3 drops of a mild dish soap
1 package of chewing tobacco 'RED MAN"
Soak tobacco overnight in a mayonaise jar of water, then pour the juice-water into the Gallon container. You might want to toss the spent leaves into a compost pile, but they can be strong enough to burn weak plants. Take OCK'S super brew out and spray all of your flowers. The beer really gives them a perk and bright colors, and the nasty tobacco juice drives off everything crawling, Even FIRE ANTS!
Maybe this is proof that insects are smarter then humans?
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Nope, just that plants are smarter than bugs! Most of our herbs and spices are the plants' way of protecting themselves from insects.
Ock, that is a great, old time formula. I can remember being sent into the garden as a kid with the task of putting a dropper full of that (without the beer) into the tassels of each ear of corn.