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I am thrilled to introduce my featured guest today on a webinar by John Lee Dumas and the guy hosting the webinar wanted a business example and she explained she sold compost tumblers and I was able to connect with her and today here is her husband Java from http://javascompost.com (Java’s Compost)!   Tell us a little about yourself. I live in the NE my wife and I and our 3 children NE region of NJ we own a little company called Java’s compost Java’s Compost Service we basically offer 2 services one is a do it yourself option basically the do it yourself option we have a starter kit set up a set of items that a backyard or home composter might want keep things simple We want to set up a system for people. A lot of times when your steps are not clear, its easy to get in your compositing efforts. At some point the system breaks down The system includes a tumbler includes a square rectangle shaped bucket that its easily in the sink or a corner or someplace and a counter top all optional if someone says, I have a composter already in the backyard, we will work with whatever system they have or whatever they want Compost Orientation Also, we have an option for an orientation where we go over the dos and don’ts in your backyard what can you compost what are the important steps the recipe so people are well educated or better educated they know what whatever happens you can always remedy your system Things that can come up can be smell or pests dy full I love this because one I am building a garden course, and I feel like the first step is building compost and people are like ick, no, but I love the orientation idea I think you should have a compost orientation webinar. Compost Orientation Webinar: we have been talking about for a while how can we digitize this whole thing where we have the resources that we make available for a broader audience strategies techniques etc we haven’t had time to get around to it, definitely god willing Tell me about your first gardening experience? Well you know interestingly I don’t have a ton of gardening experience, but my first exposure was as a small boy. I grew up in San Francisco CA I was about 15, w when I was about 4-5 years old we had this backyard area my mother when she was in her late teens lived on a farming commune in West VA She picked up some farm-gardening experience and she decided to plant some simple vegetables go out there occasionally I don’t remember specifically what she grew tomatoes or anything I thought this is pretty neat, I remember I didn’t know you could grow food in your backyard. Most kids grow up and think you get food at your local market That was my first exposure. We had some family friends in northern California, and they had a small homestead, and that was a very powerful experience I think we only went up there once or twice but it left a lasting impression animals they were managing They were doing all the things a homestead does churning their own butter cream do those things gardening basic animal husbandry the beauty magical most of that really stuck with me Over the course of time, it’s been mostly circumstances or time that has allowed us to do some gardening, or prevented us from doing as much as we like Those are  my early experiences  to growing your own food and a little bit of self sufficiency To be perfectly honest, I still feel like I am about as close to doing all of that as I was when I was 5-6, as far as being able to spend chunk of time doing any of these things that is our hope to do more of that in the future We did have some time, when we lived in a different town and the kids were  much younger   joined the community garden having bring my boys down there manage my plot when everything was really popping beets were coming up string beans cabbage tomatoes all these... Support this podcast