We go visit farmers, and ask 10 questions, and then make a video ...
We begin our "Who's Your Farmer?" series with a different kind of farmer ... a "garbage" farmer.
Well, to be fair, it's not conventional garbage, or compost, we're talking about. This is organic "craft compost", and it's {going to be} the best thing you can use in your garden or farm.
Keri and I visited Hop Compost in Calgary, AB, and spoke with Kevin Davies, the founder.
Watch the YouTube video interview with Kevin - and prepare yourself - you will learn things about compost, compost fertilizer, and conventional fertilizer you haven't heard before!
The amazing process which Kevin and the team at Hop Compost have devised is the stuff of legends. In fact, we believe that hop compost is at the forefront of a new organic compost and fertilizer era.
A FEW FACTS
Since 2015, their debut year, Hop Compost has diverted 2,029,000 pounds of waste from local landfills. This has saved over 5,200,000 pounds of emissions, 65,000 cubic feet of land, and 507,000 liters of water.
HOP compost has 7.6 times the nutrient value compared to conventional compost.
Using a closed loop of organic farmers and vendors ensures Hop Compost's top quality
Grow Calgary - the largest urban farm in Canada - by using Hop Compost announced their crop yields are rising enough to be able to donate an additional 1125 meals to food banks
Canada's large cities will soon run out of landfill space:
Calgary has 18 years left
Vancouver has 4 years left
Toronto has 0 years -a they transport their garbage to Michigan
1/3 of most landfills are comprised of COMPOSTABLE material
Conventional FERTILIZER
Is poisonous to animals and humans
Has been proven to be toxic atmospherically*
Areas which use high amounts of conventional chemical fertilizer have an increase in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma & brain cancer*
Heavy use of chemical fertilizer pollutes the air much like smoking*
".. I would say organic is possible...a lot of people have been making the same purchase decisions that they’ve just inherited through generations. It seems like a natural move to go into a green center and buy a chemical fertilizer .."
