Re: Commercial Compost

I visited my mum to-day and asked how her worms were.

She lifted the table cloth and top off a small coffee table and viola! It was actually the top of a large plastic  barrel of earth.   I couldn't even see any worms.

She just throws in kitchen waste and moves some dirt, or adds a scoop or two from a flower pot, to cover it up.  

In U.K. the farms are tiny little things, so a lot of the farming is done in miniature. Harvesting hay is even a problem with perpetual wet weather, so you bring the hay in green and wet and dry it in a dehydrator before you press it into little cubes.  Then you handle the stuff with a loader and a dump truck.

Depending whether you are making food for cows, horses, rabbits or chickens, you choose a machine that makes the right sized bites, and add appropriate additives, vitamines, herbs and spices.  You can buy vegetarian pet food - same stuff.

I am sure you would be shocked to learn what some people pay to  feed their horses. 

Supply a local farmer and get paid in beef.

30 years ago when I worked for Aggravation Canada they were experimenting with feeding cows newspaper.  Cows can turn it into milk - and that was back in the days when newsprint ink was made from oil. 

And IF you ever have to eat worms - let them crawl around in a bucket of oatmeal for a day.  You'll think it's haggis or McD's. 

In high school we tried all types of dog biscuits and fried and chocholate covered insects.  If you didn't offer something special at the parties no one would come.  I'm sure no one died from it and I can not remember anyone even being sick.  Cook anything right....

These red worms do multiply so you will have to find a lizard farmer or fish farm to eat up your surplus.

The fuel for pellet stoves is made from sawdust that is pulverized in a hammer mill and then extruded into little pellets.   I bet you could use your animal food pellet maker (if you had one) to make stove fuel from your leaves.  -  I bet your grass pellets would burn pretty good too.