Natural Break Down by Compost

The video I watched was on Veterans composting in Maryland. It is a veteran own operated company that makes compost. The owner could not find a job after returning from overseas deployment was discharged, so he created a job by composting, and he found others like himself to employ. They talk about getting their primary source of Nitrogen from the food scraps and yard clippings for their company. The carbon they use comes from the tree grinding from a local tree company. In this particular operation, they use 3 parts wood chips to 1 part food scraps to create their windrows. They maintain a tempter of 150 degrees inside the piles and use blowers to provide oxygen to feed natural bacteria into the banks. They sift out all contaminates (things that don't break down fast, like plastic or glass) and large debris after about two months of composting. Composting can also eliminate waste from wastewater facilities and ground-up tree trimmings. The compost at Veterans compost is then sent to another pile where it is sold by the truckload, or they hand load bags of compost to deal with. The narrator of this video recommends that people take the time and smell the compost before buying it because if it does not have a natural smell, it needs to be done correctly or may not have sat long enough. The equipment used for this operation is a barrel sifter, conveyor belt, and bobcat to load, turn and move the finished material.