Local Compost Company

[Intuition Ale Works]

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/

[kellypope]

Why don't you compost it yourself?

[stjr]

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.

[CS Foltz]

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!

[uptowngirl]

Maybe Sustainable Springfield?

[billy]

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.

[Ocklawaha]

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?


OCKLAWAHA

[Dog Walker]

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.