Official Trailer - Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2023
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Ben and Bertha is a 40-minute documentary following the highs and lows of a passionate community of composters as they attempt to tackle the issue of food waste going to landfill. Their solution? A composting machine called bEartha and a community-scale approach that produces beautiful, living soil.
If compost isn’t your thing yet, here’s a story that might surprise you into a passion for kitchen scraps and microbes. And if composting’s already one of your great loves - because compost practitioners do seem to really LOVE compost - then we reckon this community-focused story is going to stir up your compost passion!
Composting food scraps seems like such a small and simple act, but it’s one of many crucial solutions to addressing climate change, reducing waste, and creating a regenerative food system.
In this new documentary we get to know Ben and Bertha - a compost nerd and the machine he’s designed to revolutionise regional composting.
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I guess I’ll be the stick in the mud. Composting is wonderful, but what I see is an industrial solution to what should be taking place on a much smaller scale without all the fossil fuel consumption. For example; everyone WALKS their food waste to a collection center no more than a couple hundred meters from their home or business, which also happens to be a small community farm. The food waste is cooked using bio gas (also produced from food waste) then fed to pigs and chickens (deeply bedded in neighborhood leaves to control odor). The manure and bedding is then composted to grow the vegetables which get sent back to the residents along with the pork, chicken, eggs, and the cycle repeats.
I do this on my own small farm (minus the cooking) and yes, it works.
I guess I'll be the second stick in the mud. I'm a mini farmer who keeps ten cubic yards of compost in process. IMO, their hearts are in the right place but their project is ill-conceived. If I were starting a similar enterprise, I would find a large farm that could provide a little land in exchange for finished compost. Then dig some very long 4' x 4' trenches with a backhoe, fill them with appropriately mixed organic matter and let fungus do its thing. Add a new trench every year until the first trench is finished. At that time, you have continuous output with very little effort.
Awesome. Definitely will head over and donate.
Why is it so difficult to do the right thing? indeed. I think possibly because society doesn't support the right things anymore.
I will pray for the success of your project! I wish I had more to give than that.
Maybe people trying to pray problems away is part of whats wrong with society 😂
@@cantbringmedowntodaytrue. Prayer with no action is worthless
I take action in other ways. Just because someone doesn't have money doesn't mean they aren't making positive change in the world.
I'm just trying to keep food on the table and the lights on. I compost my own waste and grow what I can in my yard. We need to all do what we can. Pray, share the video or donate.
First thought: its Ragnar Lothbrok composting!
Jokes aside. Great respect and love for your project. Good luck with it, you deserve it:)
Great project 😊
great job guys
Awesome!
Does your company sell merchandise such as t-shirts ?
I like your channel, greetings from Poland ♥️, could you add Polish subtitles to the video in your channel settings?
More than two minutes, this is one long documentary! Why can't they sell the compost to make the money they need. We should not sink money into such an endeavor, unless there is a return.
I'm not sure there is a lot of margin in compost. I think it's more of a passion project. Regardless, I think good intentions are there and I appreciate their struggle to make content to inspire us.
We failed at this in our community because politics and public support was distracted and relationships broke down.
However, there is always the method of feeding the soil with fresh ingredients, which is quicker than letting it rot and burn out the proteins.
A fresh blend of protein smoothy fed to soil and covered on the top microbial layer of 2” and then covered with dirt + moisture barrier can achieve sound results with less lifting, less rodents.
@@mellonglass oh that's a very interesting idea. So basically, grind up the compost first and then lasagna layer it under dirt?
@@sirenamber yes, there are many over year, experimenters on you tube, blending fresh food scraps to feed the garden and grow soil.
My neighbours ….put their compost in their back yard and breed up feral rats. Those same rats make their dog bark all night as their dog is left outside (neighbour’s bedrooms) in the city. Those rats climb their clumping palms and go into my roof space to stay warm and dry. They also leave droppings and gnaw our electrical chords). When these neighbours went away on holidays their rat population gnawed through my 10 worm farms (super secure, thick plastic worm farms with bricks on lid to secure) and ate our worms and organic worm food.