Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

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31 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a Mike Andes YouTube video in which the speaker walks through a small-scale composting operation. He describes materials (wood chips), a mixing guideline (for every gallon of food use three gallons of material), pile management (turning with a tractor and raking), observed temperatures (80°F in clip; target ~110°F), breakdown timelines (approximately two weeks to see breakdown in-field; pad about four months), and business results (claims of collecting over £2 million of food in three years and generating about 16–18,000 per month).

Questions this video answers

For every gallon of food, use three gallons of material.

About 110°F (speaker notes it reads 80°F in the clip but should be ~110°F).

About two weeks (speaker: "been here about two weeks, and you can see how far it's broken down").

Approximately four months."

"Over £2 million of food" (speaker's phrasing).

Chapters

They keep this here. Only one spool right now. Simple as that 1350 I just made. Yeah. So typically, I come in with the truck, unload all the bins, sift through it a little bit. You can see I got like wood chips right here. For every gallon of food, you want three gallons of material. I bring it out into the field over here. You want to walk down there. It's been here about two weeks, and you can see how far it's broken down. Well, it says 80 degrees. There should be a little more like 110 right now. So that's like the finished product before it gets screened and sold. You can basically crumble it with your hands. The pad to this is probably four months. We come in with a tractor, and then one of us is standing on the other side with a rake, kind of raking it down. In the three years I've done it, I picked up over £2 million of food. The business probably brings in 16 to 18,000amonth.