"More microbes than all the grains of sand on the planet" with John and Katie Culpepper

05/19/21 • 48 min

Join us as we "dig" into John and Katie Culpepper's work on the development of an open-source design for a 20ft-long in-vessel/rotating drum composting system! Learn how they've brought commercial scale composting to farms/businesses the Adirondacks and beyond through an innovative design and dedication to making composting systems widely available. Love soil health? Want to learn more about how they are relieving farms of their BIG annual expenses of purchased composts and growing mediums? Settle in for our fascinating conversation with this dynamic father-daughter duo!

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