In an effort to get out from behind my desk and do something that’s both good for my bank account, AND good for the environment, I’ve started a green business that will hopefully will be rewarding as I think it can be. My wife and I operate a horse farm in Hughesville, Maryland. On this farm are 13 horses and 1 donkey….and as a group, they produce a tremendous amount of manure. Manure of course is a great base for organic compost.  What is Organic Compost? Compost is one of nature's best mulches and soil amendments, and you can use it instead of commercial fertilizers. Best of all, compost is cheap. You can make it without spending a cent. Using compost improves soil structure, texture, and aeration and increases the soil's water-holding capacity. Compost loosens clay soils and helps sandy soils retain water. Adding compost improves soil fertility and stimulates healthy root development in plants. The organic matter provided in compost provides food for microorganisms, which keeps the soil in a healthy, balanced condition. Nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus will be produced naturally by the feeding of microorganisms, so few if any soil amendments will need to be added. Most gardeners have long understood the value of this rich, dark, earthy material in improving the soil and creating a healthful environment for plants. Understanding how to make and use compost is in the public interest, as the problem of waste disposal climbs toward a crisis level. Landfills are brimming, and new sites are not likely to be easily found. For this reason there is an interest in conserving existing landfill space and in developing alternative methods of dealing with waste. Don't throw away materials when you can use them to improve your lawn and garden! Start composting instead. Our hands our being forced to deal creatively with our own yard waste, as one by one, cities are refusing to haul off our leaves and grass clippings. About one third of the space in landfills is taken up with organic waste from our yards and kitchens, just the type of material that can be used in compost. With a small investment in time, you can contribute to the solution to a community problem, while at the same time enriching the soil and improving the health of the plants on your property. What’s in organic compost? Well, it’s a combination of many things: - Manure - Grass clippings - Egg Shells - Coffee Grounds & Filters - Spoiled or unused parts of Veggies and Fruits - Hair - Leaves - Cardboard - Ashes from untreated wood - Dryer Lint - Newspapers - Other Kitchen Refuse Kitchen Refuse includes melon rinds, carrot peelings, tea bags, apple cores, banana peels - almost everything that cycles through your kitchen. The average household produces more than 200 pounds of kitchen waste every year. You can successfully compost all forms of kitchen waste. However, meat, meat products, dairy products, and high-fat foods like salad dressings and peanut butter, can present problems. Meat scraps and the rest will decompose eventually, but will smell bad and attract pests. Egg shells are a wonderful addition, but decompose slowly, so should be crushed. All additions to the compost pile will decompose more quickly if they are chopped up some before adding. Here’s a few of the products I plan on creating, packaging, and selling: Organic Compost. Organic Tea. (for your lawn and flowers) Organic Weed Kill Community Composting Service Personal Composting Equipment It’s not exactly the next MySpace.com or Blogger.com, but it does make a difference and gets me out in the sun and away from my computer a few times a week. | |||
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 I'm starting to figure out what's been missing with all my business ideas...it's been focus.
BOLD Underlined FOCUS One of my favorite businesses that I have started over the last two years has been my careers website SOMDJobs.com. This site covers job postings for the lower 3 counties of Southern Maryland. We've got a great following, and any time I message the system (do marketing, check up on clients, make an appearance, or hold a job fair), good things...no, GREAT things happen. Companies pay for job postings and many cases, sign up for the membership plans the site provides. Usually, I would sit back and complain that the site wasn't doing anything for me, and in-turn, I would try to find something else that would reward me... But the truth is, once you build it, they WON'T come...not immediately anyway. Once you get a little trickle of traffic you have to treat these people like gold! News travels fast, so when you solve a problem for someone, they usually pass your name around and traffic increases. Ignore your customers and they leave you. Simple stuff really...I just never really got it until now. SOMDJobs.com can make me a LOT of money. I just have to work the system, stay on top of things, develop new product and DELIVER DELIVER DELIVER! Are you focused? | |||
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No truer words have ever been....typed: Get a good, non-generic name. Easier said than done, granted. But the most common mistake in naming is trying to be too descriptive, which leads to lots of hard-to-distinguish names. How many blogging companies have 'blog' in their name, RSS companies 'feed', or podcasting companies 'pod' or 'cast'? Rarely are they the ones that stand out. - Evan Williams, Creator of Blogger | |||
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