Compost Now Available for O-Town Subscribers

In addition to the free compost giveback for O-Town Compost subscribers, finished compost is now available for purchase!

To order 50lbs of premium O-Town Black Gold, login to your customer portal and order the product titled “O-Town Black Gold Compost,” for $15. We will deliver it on a normally scheduled pickup day, and it comes in a compostable Kraft paper bag. Please tear up before placing in your bucket.

Starting this Saturday we will have our compost for sale at the Packing District Farmer’s Market on the corner of Orange Blossom Trail and Princeton St. It’s the inaugural farmers market, and will feature The Farmacy selling local and organic meat, dairy, and produce from Central Florida farmers.

Of course, subscribers can still order their Fall share of compost for free anytime before October 8th! Same instructions, go to the shop in your customer portal and select the item titled “Fall 2021 Compost Giveback” for $0.

Directions to The Packing District Farmer’s Market:

 

4 Roots Farm Campus - Orlando's Sustainability Incubator

We’re declaring Orlando as the country’s “The Green Silicon Valley.” Not for innovative new technologies that make life digitally faster, but by bringing back the community-model of local dependence and giving it a contemporary spin.

O-Town Compost, The Farmacy, and 4 Roots formed a unity to make a better food future in Central Florida by repairing the broken food system and making sure that our organic waste is going back into creating more food. It’s the old circular economy that businesses love to use as a buzz phrase, but rarely is achieved in totality. The 4 Roots warehouse, located in The Packing District, now serves as a co-op workspace for Feed The Need, The Farmacy, and O-Town Compost.

Our subscribers, by now, have probably received a flyer to The Farmacy’s online shop making anyone’s mouth water for the organic food easily available. Unlike the meat, dairy, and produce you buy from Publix or Aldi’s, The Farmacy sources all their food locally within 50 miles or so, maintaining the nutritional value for people to consume and reap the health benefits. It’s preventative medicine. The carrot sitting on display in Publix may look like a carrot, but, biologically, it’s dead and was most likely grown with synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. You can order online from their website, or find them every Saturday at the Winter Garden Farmer’s Market with their massive farm stand.

O-Town Compost assures that any unsold produce doesn’t find it’s unfortunate end in the smelly landfill. It’s very easy for us to place our bins in the large commercial cooler, or along the donation bagging line to catch any spoiled food. The operation inside the warehouse has been thought out from beginning to end, which we want to become the new norm for Central Florida. Since, we formed our partnership with 4 Roots and The Farmacy, we have diverted over 5 tons of food scraps just from the warehouse alone!

Slaying Waste with O-Town Compost

NEW SERVICE! - On-farm Composting

The equine industry has a significant presence here in Central Florida, and with a great number of horses comes a great deal of manure to be managed. At O-Town Compost we specialize in the collection and processing of people’s food scraps, but since the COVID19 pandemic started, we’ve decided to venture into a new areas and diversify our business offerings. Introducing our “On-Farm Composting Service,” where a wasteful byproduct is transformed into a valuable resource.

The average horse generates 45 pounds a day of manure, and closer to 55 pounds if you include the bedding! When I first read this statistic, I was shocked! Where does all this organic material go? Does it just remain on the farm or get hauled to the landfill?

Different stable owners do different things, but typically smaller stables spread their raw manure onto the pastures in hopes that it’ll fertilize and grow more grass for their horses to graze on. Whereas, larger stables, lacking the proper time or heavy machinery to spread manure, will opt for renting a dumpster to fill and send to the local landfill for disposal. One dumpster load can cost a couple hundred of dollars to haul, and contributes to the ever growing mountain of organic waste that notoriously comprises 40 percent of all landfill waste.

It just so happens that horse and cow manure are the perfect consistency to make a crumbly and earthy compost. Manure alone has around a 25:1 Carbon to Nitrogen ratio being perfect for the active composting process. No outside feedstock is necessary to achieve a quality final product, but something, such as food waste, can be added without negatively affecting the result. The longer you let the manure dry out, the higher its carbon content becomes and it becomes better to add a nitrogen-heavy food waste.

Excitingly, O-Town Compost has begun construction on our first Aerated Static Pile (ASP) compost bin at Scala Stables located in East Orlando near University of Central Florida. Additionally, our services include regular weekly monitoring and upkeep, screening and transport of the finish compost, and technical assistance. Stable owners are left with a comprehensive instructional packet, and the ability to call anytime they’re experiencing a problem or have a question.

Advantages of choosing our composting method:

• Eliminate the time and expense of off-site disposal

• Produce finished compost in 60 days or less without turning the pile

• Destroy parasites, pathogens and weed seeds in the finished product

• Stop offensive odors

• Significantly reduce flies, rodents and other pests

• Improve your animals’ health

• Create nutrient-rich compost product that is safe to use on pastures and gardens

• Utilize the finished compost for an absorbent stall bedding

• Earn revenue by selling your finished soil amendment and create a return on your investment

• Enhance the appearance and value of your farm or stable.

If you or someone you know could benefit from this easy-to-use and environmentally friendly solution for on-farm waste management, please send us an email at info@o-towncompost.com.

Silly horse rolling around in the dirt.

O-Town Compost Celebrates Its First Ton Diverted!

Thank you to all our awesome subscribers and customers who are committed to food waste recycling in Orlando, Florida !!! It’s an exciting journey to be a waste warrior.