Season’s greetings and a very happy new year to all our customers, volunteers and many other supporters. We have continued to have a great response to every request for materials, equipment and labour from local farmers and consumers who want to boost Salt Spring’s food production in a sustainable way.
The winterizing of the crawl space under the cut and wrap building has been done entirely with volunteer labour and a variety of donated materials. Our composting of Special Risk Materials from beef animals is done on site in donated compost bins. The composting of the poultry and lamb offal takes place on a local farm where, after in vessel composting, it nourishes field and greenhouse crops. The edible offal, chicken and turkey necks, livers and hearts, and sometimes lamb livers, tongues, hearts and kidneys are saved and sold, sometimes also with lamb bones for pet food.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us to complete our first year of service to the Salt Spring community.