Ramial
wood chips can be a waste stream in urban environments. Where I am, I can get them delivered for free if I take enough of them. I figure you can pile them in towers constructed of
pallets with the bottom open to the ground. This in itself plus rain constitutes a breeding factory for wood lice (
Armadillidium), which I think could easily be fed to
chickens as a good source of protein.
In a more general way, Paul's observations that it is necessary to be careful about any industrial compost is a suggestion in itself; a completely video documented operation that could be posted to youtube could be connected to packaging via a QR code on the compost bag. You could construct a whole compost operation, or vermiculture, mycoculture (I think that's what you'd call using
fungi in this context), Black Soldier Fly Larvae, or all of the above in succession, starting with BSFL. I think there might be a niche market for completely uncontaminated compost. All you would have to do would be to source your materials from organic sources.
City trees, for instance, aren't sprayed. No point. Too expensive. Organic stores have unsold produce that goes bad, too. Organic coffee shops might not be doing anything with their grounds but throwing them out.
The sourcing would take creativity, but the rest of the operation is relatively simple.
-CK
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein