03/19/2025
Busy Bee Compost produces the best compost in the State of Wisconsin.
From testing with 10 different municpal compost, 3 farmer run compost opereations, 2 organic certified producer in the state and 8 brand named bagged compost products; Busy Bee Stands above.
In the first years of the NEW Compost ventures our founder Connor Freimuth; was utilizing municipal compost for its for it's worms workers to further produce into plant available vermicompost.
There was a problem that persisted.
3 to be specific.Quality, Contamination, and Consistancy.
1. Quality. 📈📊
From multiple different sources NEW Compost would put each source to the test. 🧪🔬
Including how fast the worms and the microbes can break down the material. 🪱♻️🦠
How plants grew in the material. Plus bag appeal. 🌱🪴🌳
Customers don't like seeing black/charred leaves or petrified animal manure in their compost product. 💩☠️
Many plants and worms were harmed in this process. 🪱🌱
Mostly from the compost/potting material would activate. Actively composting the worms and the plants because it wad not finished.
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Once finished after a 6 month time in the worms bins roughly 30% would be uncompleted material. 50% would become our 1/4 inch screened and 20% would be our 1/8th screened for our liquid extract production.
2. Contamination ☠️
After sourcing materials from 10 different municipalities, 3 farm made composts, and 2 Organic Certified compost companies in Wisconsin and 8 Brand Named bagged compost.
Our founder a trained Agronomist & Soil Food Web Lab Technician would check his samples under the microscope.
His findings?
Unhealthy rates of Root Feeding Nemotodes, oomeycte fungus, Azospirillum (the microbes that give produce Fuzzy Compost and your fuzzy food), and a host more plant pathogens. ☠️
As well as human pathogens such as E-Colli from the ERIC Labs at the University of Oshkosh facility. ☠️
3. Constancy 📊📈
As NEW Compost grew we needed a producer to supply Certified Organic Product that we had confidence in for our producers, growers, farmers and our worm workforce. 🪱👨🌾👩🌾
But it had to be consistent end product for our production as well as producers that we would advise and direct that would keep up with demand.
That is when we found Busy Bee Compost 🐝
A business that composts for the community by the community.
For 3 years of partnership Busy Bee Compost has been the go to compost source we use to deliver organic, nutrient rich, contamination free products to new levels and the one we always direct our grower too.🏆
Our worms are born, raised, and finished in Busy Bee Compost.
Not peat moss that takes thousands of years to be replaced.⌛️
It is formed from organic certified compost, processed into worm casting that go into Busy Bee bioactive blend.
Busy Bee Compost partners with communities. 🤝
Never bashes or speaks ill towards. 🤬
When the community is ready to work together, Busy Bee is ready for them. 🤝
Fulfilled by your city, town, village, your community that makes our community better, our plants better, and our soil better. 👨👩👦👦🌱🪱
MUNICIPAL compost is GARBAGE. Unfortunately that has been the common theme if you visit a compost facility operated by a municipality. Busy Bee is changing that narrative to get OMRI certified organic compost into more townships and counties around the state of Wisconsin. Not all municipal compost facilities are garbage, especially the ones operated by Busy Bee! Most municipal compost facilities lack the proper management, equipment, and time to compost correctly. Manitowoc residents now have the ability to use OMRI certified compost produced right in Two Rivers instead of sourcing it from outside the county. Busy Bee looks forward to working with more municipalities in 2025 as we change the way municipal compost sites are perceived.
