a friend of the family knows someone who
is starting/running an organic eatery.

featuring seasonal veggies and using
open air grilling and such.

there's a good chance i'll get involved
with them in some manner if the people
seem like they want to have help for
dealing with the veggie scraps, perhaps
an on-site garden, maybe even supplying
some of the produce.

i won't know for a while yet if anything
will come of it, but it's a nice thing to
daydream about in the late weeks of winter.


things to think about:

- charcoal scraps from grilling and making
charcoal roasters out of paint cans and
small holes in the sides near the top.
load with wood pieces, put on lid, upend
in grill, gases from wood inside come out
the holes and helps feed the rest of the
wood fire, but leaves some char inside
that can be used in the gardens. empty
and refill each morning before firing the
grill. not sure how well this would work
but i think the idea is potentially a good
way to moderate the heat from the wood
bits and charcoal as often it seems grills
get too hot...

- using two layers of steel along the sides
of the grill, packing the side with wood
chips to roast. holes at the bottom again
to put the wood gas into the fire. perhaps
needing some steel tubes and holes to
distribute the gas. a much neater method
of doing the above as it doesn't involve
messing with paint cans. just flip open
the side and remove the char and then
replace the chips...

- bone grinding, scraps, to keep the wormies
and garden plants super happy. one problem
with recent bone crumbs is that they are
basically devoid of all useful nutrients
so they don't stink when packaged and sold
at the stores. in old days bones were
ground up and used in the gardens or fed to
the critters/pigs getting all those nutrients
back into the gardens via direct application
or the muck from the piggies.

- veggie scrap processing... obvious, but i
can vastly speed up decomposition/breakdown
via worms by chopping and drying root crop
scraps.

- cardboard shredding... so much stuff is packed
in cardboard. let's use that free worm food for
good nummies.

if anything the conversations should be interesting...


songbird