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WHY Vermicomposting and
Goldenrod Products.
- Why was Goldenrod Products started in the
first place, where is it going (hopefully) and what will be the end
result?
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- "I have a dream"
- I could at this point make a grandiose
statement about cleaning up the environment and have all the
environmentalist applaud me. Cleaning up the environment is a by-product
of AVSA. So, I won't do that.
- I started Goldenrod Products because I needed
the money, I loved what earthworms do for the earth and its something that
I can honestly believe in enough to sell to someone else.
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- FACT
- If there isn't MONEY in recycling, there is
very little recycling. Bread and butter come first, then humanitarian
efforts, picking up trash on an empty stomach, without the benefit of
money, doesn't sound all that good to me, perhaps if you are a totally
self-sacrificing individual that doesn't mind watching your child starve,
while you pat yourself on the back and await the applause from the other
self sacrificers', then it would be okay.
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- I love earthworms, they are the best little
guys in the world, fantastic pets, they don't wet on the carpet, leave
sharp bones laying around to be stepped on, scratch up the furniture, or
have to have their bowl changed. Nor do they howl at the moon. They mind
their own business and dispose of smelly old garbage in a way that
benefits nature, plants and mankind. Even their Poop (castings) are
odorless and good for plants! They obediently stay in their place (beds)
and complain very little, if at all. Certainly NOT like my pet rooster or
goat that run into the house every time they see the door open...that's
another story!
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- I originally started my adventure in 1974, (see
My history) with Red
Wiggler earthworms, I loved the vermicompost idea. I've always loved
having plants,
- gardens and all those pretty green things
around me, but I never quite liked the idea of the chemicals that were
needed to keep them that way. So, after trying the vermicompost on my
plants, I was hooked for life.
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- I spent years, doing it like everyone else,
trying new things as they were discovered, but I could never see a way to
make the money from the vermicompost, as I wanted to do. I didn't want to
sell the worms, I wasn't interested in all the work that was required for
fish bait, and I didn't see the advantage of filling up some guys backyard
with wormbeds, what was he going to do with them? Sell them to someone
else, who would have another backyard full of earthworms, and so on. Just
didn't seem right to me. Sure I could have made some money, but in my
heart I knew I wouldn't like it, and that the earthworms were worth far
more then that.
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- I did manage to start Goldenrod Products in
1986, I separated out the castings, just like everyone else, bought the
bags, labels and sold to some local stores. But I was a single mom with a
18 month old baby, living by myself (with her) and trying to do it all by
myself. I just wasn't physically capable of doing all of the manual labor,
and I couldn't afford to hire anyone.
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- The well went dry and I lost everything. I gave
up on my dream for over 10 years and did what I had to, to raise my
daughter and feed us. But, in the back of my mind I was designing AVSA, I
finally built a prototype in 1995 and tested it, I couldn't afford the
Stainless Steel that I wanted, so it was constructed out of plywood and
angle iron. It worked! But, still my prior business failure haunted me.
Finally I didn't have any choice, I had to either
re-start Goldenrod Products or starve, so I started Goldenrod Products
again, by the way for those that might wonder over the selection of the
name, if you unscramble Goldenrod, it spells Lord en God" Products. I have
to give credit where it's due! Besides Goldenrod the plant, has received a
bad rap from the hay fever sufferers, (its really ragweed , that blooms at
the same time, that's the villain) just as the earthworms have received a
bad rap from the fly-by-night salesmen. THIS is not Trivia, it took me years
to figure out a name that was HONEST!
- It took me years to design AVSA also, but you
know what? I finally did it.
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- I know what most are saying by now, a woman
can't design and build a wormbed that works. Right I didn't design a
wormbed, I designed and built a totally new unit and process that works!
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- It works as well as or better then anything
that has been tried thus far.
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- There is one other reason that I designed AVSA
as I did, remember my first business and the hard work, well I used my
head instead of my back this time. I'm 5'2", 125 lb. grandmother. I wanted
something that I could easily use, work and separate the casting out of,
that I didn't have to pay someone else to do, or repair mechanical things
that I know nothing about. I designed it to be simple but totally
efficient unit, that was capable of processing the huge amounts of
"organic matter" that I wanted to convert into vermicompost ($$$).
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- I didn't want a hobby in the backyard, I'd
already had that. I wanted a good, clean, efficient business in a
warehouse, that contracted with the city to recycle their garbage into
vermicompost, and sell it world wide to people that care about what they
return to the earth. People that care whether or not their children, grand
children will have a safe place to play in our parks, yards, forests,
etc., A place that isn't poisoned with chemicals, but that uses natures
best product to keep it green and healthy. Okay, so I am a little bit
environmentalist at heart, but shouldn't we all be?
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- Where do I see Goldenrod Products going:
- I would love for Goldenrod Products to be part
of a unique group of businesses that advocate a franchising, co-op system.
Where each area would have a central location that processes the garbage
for that area, where all of the vermicompost could be collected, bagged
and resold. With that area receiving the benefits from it.
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- I'm NOT anti-government, (well not totally so
yet!) but without even claiming any physic abilities I can see down the
road, where the government will pass "legislation" that everyone will be
required to bring their garbage to one central location, where the
government will process it (at the taxpayers expense) and resell it back
to themselves (at inflated rates) and still charge You and I for hauling
off our garbage! And the taxpayers will pay for the whole process.
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- Hopefully by making Garbage a money making
business venture now, we can short circuit big government from further
intrusion into our lives, they already own everything, do they have to get
our garbage too?
AVSA is A Very Simple Answer to Complex problems.
Copyright@Goldenrod Products
1998
All Rights Reserved
Updated
10/19/02
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