Yesterday our Daylily Club visited Mother's Organics Humus Farm for our monthly meeting. Mother's Organics takes yard waste from the City of Tampa and other places and turns it into compost. The city pays Mother's to take all the yard waste from the collection sites and brings it to their facility, where they put it through a series of grinders and let it age at proper temperatures until it turns into compost. The site is set on a slight grade, and all the water runs into ponds that are used to pump water back into the facility, so they are self sufficient and don't rely on any municipal water for their operation. It was really interesting and inspiring to see a company making a living doing something that is good for the environment. They let us bring buckets so we could all take home samples of the compost for use in our gardens. Nothing like free dirt to send a bunch of middle-aged gardeners scrambling. I've put a link here to all the pictures I took. Once I have a chance to go through the video I attempted to take with my FLIP, I'll amend this post and include that if there is any footage worth sharing.
That's AWESOME!
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