Wise Worm's Mission Statement

On May 23rd, the membership Board met to discuss, among other items, an educational mission for the organization to qualify us as an L3C. In an amazing and dynamic 20 minutes, nine of us collaborated to create the finished mission statement for Wise Worm Composting:

Wise Worm Composting educates communities to create a sustainable practice of diverting 100% of compostables from the waste stream.

Our hope is that collecting food waste and converting it into soil will be only one of the ways that we influence communities' choices. Whether people choose to start their own home composting for their garden, or work with us to seperate their compostables for pick-up, what's important is that we collectively produce less waste and more soil.

We scrub our totes by hand, too.

We love our customers. It's important to us to keep our totes and buckets clean. It's one of the ways we strive to make composting easy and convenient, so that we can meet our mission of helping to divert 100% of compostables from the waste stream.

Road Still in Progress

We're gaining, but the transition from the road bed into the field continues to pose problems. So, we will keep excavating the top soil and laying in sand and gravel until, presumably, we don't want to drive any further. And then we'll be done. Terrance build up the road and reinforced its edges leading up to the culvert (seen here) which stabilized the near side. The culvert and the drainage are working splendidly. Thank goodness, since it has rained all through the month of May.

We've begun construction on the road that will lead to the permanent site for the windrows and to the sheep barn. Of course, we picked the coldest and wettest weekend of the spring - Mother's Day weekend! - to begin this endeavor. Many thanks to our friends for braving the windy mist and mud to haul rocks and dig in the drainage. With another load of gravel delivered, we hope to have construction completed on the road (and photos of the work updated on this blog!) tomorrow. Hope springs eternal. Pun intended.

Finished Compost to Newark Street School

Our first delivery of screened, finished compost went to the Newark Street School today. We measured it by the square yard in a 3' x 3' x 1' frame that Terrance made and discovered that a cubic yard fit exactly in three toters. That made it easy! We are so proud of the finished product, complete with lots of healthy worms. It is perfect that it should go to the Newark school's gardens, since they were our first food-waste contributers.