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Rumble Strip

Karl Hammer and the Donkeys

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A show about donkeys, optimal chickenhood, and our future on earth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Rumbel Strip America Heilman.

0:02.0

Personally and spiritually I have having been a plastophobe of hated plastic ever since I understood how it reduced human craft

0:12.4

It cheapened it all, you know, and it's poisonous and it, but sometime a number of years ago I had this sort of moment of

0:20.9

kinship with the plastic I realized there but for fortune it's a carbon form once it was a tree fern and then some

0:27.5

diplodopoulos came along and ate the tree fern and diplodoplus is long dinosaur, it takes a few days. Out you come in an enhanced environment.

0:37.0

You're now in a poop. So you go through this thing and the Diplodopoulos poops you out this stupid Diplodopoulos steps into some kind of tar pit 500

0:44.7

million years later out into the Saudi sunshine whisper free at last denied the

0:51.0

face of the sun for 500 million years.

0:55.0

Now, oops, turn into PVC pipe, buried 8 feet deep,

1:01.0

moving human feces up to a mound for another indeterminate period, once again denied

1:07.1

the face of the sun.

1:09.8

In Buddhist terms, you got to ask yourself about the karma of a piece of PVC.

1:15.0

That's Carl Hammer, the founder and president of the Vermont Compost Company in Eastmont

1:21.0

Phelier. I heard about Carl from a friend of mine who told me

1:25.2

about how he had puppies one winter and he decided to compost their poop on the

1:29.4

floor in the house which he sweetened with donkey manure and hardwood bark and hay.

1:35.0

Carl started as a vegetable and dairy farmer on a hill farm in Versia, Vermont, and the success of the

1:39.9

farm depended entirely on the quality of the soil and he started experimenting with adding

1:44.7

this poop to that poop, adding food scraps and bark and other materials and it was all going

1:49.8

well. The vegetables sold, he was sharecropping hay selling heifers, he had a business card that said have fun, make money, save the world.

1:59.0

How do you make more land, better land, to make more food for more people. I think this was the question that

2:05.3

made him finally get out of farming and get into compost production long before

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