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Alder Burns wrote:Check out black soldier flies. With that much food trash coming into your system and that many chickens, they might be a valuable addition if your climate proves amenable, at least in the summer. They will convert stuff the birds can't eat themselves, as well as at least some of their manure, back into chicken feed! Coffee grounds are a particular favorite, which I don't think chickens eat themselves.
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Mike Jay wrote:Awesome business and beautiful HOMEstead!
Do you know about Edible Acres youtube channel? He composts restaurant scraps with 60 hens and has a real system to move the food through. He uses some organic grains that the mill nearby scoops up off the floor (cheap)
Here's a permies thread on it: Edible Acres-"Chickens making compost videos"
Alder Burns wrote:Check out black soldier flies. With that much food trash coming into your system and that many chickens, they might be a valuable addition if your climate proves amenable, at least in the summer. They will convert stuff the birds can't eat themselves, as well as at least some of their manure, back into chicken feed! Coffee grounds are a particular favorite, which I don't think chickens eat themselves.
Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
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Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
I found a few things to be a real hassle: a sticky glob of wet flour or dough, the cut end of a fruit or vegetable "suction-cupped" to the pail, and the cakes of coffee sludge at the bottom of the pail.
They don't stretch like a petroleum plastic bag will to fit the rim.
to compost the bags I found it better to dump out or tear the bags (to avoid anaerobic blobs) and while the bags did break down it took time buried in a HOT pile
Maybe consider if plastic may actually be the right material for the bins. Sometimes we demonize a word and miss the important details. Much of the plastics problem derives from it's use in mast distribution of one time use products, whence it is discarded, much of it ending up in nature.
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Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
hans muster wrote:Hi,
another idea, based on the cardboard: why don't you use newspaper? If you line neswpaper on the inside, it would catch the dough and sticky rice as long as it isn't too wet.
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Jay Angler wrote:Ashley, do you have access to anyone who welds?
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'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
Kenneth Elwell wrote:Ramps are useful for loading other things besides your bins. So, not a bad investment to get more from your truck in lots of ways.
If you go this route, make sure you get/make ramps with good traction (stamped metal with grippy teeth, or use some traction tape, or grit mixed into paint). Mine are bare wood, and get slippery when wet or snowy.
They do take up space to use them, however, like almost a second parking spot behind the truck. Not so good if your customers are in a congested area, and you are parallel parking. (This was the case for me)
There are pickup sized liftgates, which require less space behind the truck, and would lift a bunch of bins at once. It's an off-the-shelf solution (probably expensive? but check Craiglslist or salvage yards...)
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
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