Karl Hammer and the Donkeys
Rumble Strip
Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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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