Due to an anticipated rise in gas prices, we're pausing our food scrap service for 2022
Update March 2022: Our free food scrap pick-up has been a popular service over the past two seasons. With the help of a dedicated bunch of West Michigan residents, we've diverted over a ton of food scraps from landfills since 2020! Unfortunately, we've had to re-examine the financial viability of the program during this year's off season, and we just can't make this program work this year. Due to the conflict in Ukraine, gas prices have gone up considerably in the past month, and forecasts show that prices will remain high for the next several months. As a small business, we really have to watch our expenditures, and the extra miles we drive to pick up food scrap buckets would be too much of a strain on our finances to keep us afloat for 2022. We'll re-examine the program in the future, and hope to be back diverting your food scraps soon. -Steve & Corey Veldheer, owners of Good Sweet Earth.
Turn your kitchen scraps into super soil!
Don't throw those carrot tops, avocado peels, rotten bananas, apple cores, slimy uneaten bags of spinach, and corn husks in the garbage! Not only will they sit in a landfill and wreak havoc on our planet, but you're missing out on the opportunity to turn those scraps into a nutrient-rich soil amendment: Vermicompost!
If you live in Kent or Ottawa County, Michigan, we will be happy to take those scraps off your hands, from May through October, at no cost to you, and offer you credits to purchase Good Sweet Earth products and services as a hearty thank you. You can even use the credits you earn toward our organic lawn service.
Our worms are hungry. We've got hundreds of thousands of them, and they eat half of their body weight in food every day. That means 10,000 worms can eat a 150 pounds of rotten produce a month. For the past ten years, we've been working with local farms and markets to take unsold produce off their hands to feed to our worms. We still do this. But as our lawn fertilization and garden consultation business has grown, we're travelling all over West Michigan on a weekly basis. There's a real good chance we're in your neighborhood multiple times over the course of a month (that is, if you live in the Grand Rapids/Lakeshore area). That means if you've got some fruit and veggie scraps, we'd love to swing by when we're in your area, and pick it up.
When you sign up for our Food Scrap Pick-up Service, aside from the $10 you'll pay as a bucket deposit (refundable at the end of the year), you pay nothing to have us pick up your kitchen scraps right from your porch!
How it works: First, sign up here. Then we'll drop off a 3.5 gallon bucket and some info on the program (do's and don't's for food collection). You'll then toss your fruit and veggie scraps into the bucket. Once it's full, you shoot us a text. We'll look at our lawn fertilization schedule, and text you back to let you know the next day we'll be in your area (typically within a week). For each full bucket we pick up, we'll give you a $4 credit to purchase Good Sweet Earth products and/or services.
We are a bit picky about what we feed our worms, which means we don't want certain things put in the buckets:
If you have any questions, shoot us an email at Office@GoodSweetEarth.com.
Don't throw those carrot tops, avocado peels, rotten bananas, apple cores, slimy uneaten bags of spinach, and corn husks in the garbage! Not only will they sit in a landfill and wreak havoc on our planet, but you're missing out on the opportunity to turn those scraps into a nutrient-rich soil amendment: Vermicompost!
If you live in Kent or Ottawa County, Michigan, we will be happy to take those scraps off your hands, from May through October, at no cost to you, and offer you credits to purchase Good Sweet Earth products and services as a hearty thank you. You can even use the credits you earn toward our organic lawn service.
Our worms are hungry. We've got hundreds of thousands of them, and they eat half of their body weight in food every day. That means 10,000 worms can eat a 150 pounds of rotten produce a month. For the past ten years, we've been working with local farms and markets to take unsold produce off their hands to feed to our worms. We still do this. But as our lawn fertilization and garden consultation business has grown, we're travelling all over West Michigan on a weekly basis. There's a real good chance we're in your neighborhood multiple times over the course of a month (that is, if you live in the Grand Rapids/Lakeshore area). That means if you've got some fruit and veggie scraps, we'd love to swing by when we're in your area, and pick it up.
When you sign up for our Food Scrap Pick-up Service, aside from the $10 you'll pay as a bucket deposit (refundable at the end of the year), you pay nothing to have us pick up your kitchen scraps right from your porch!
How it works: First, sign up here. Then we'll drop off a 3.5 gallon bucket and some info on the program (do's and don't's for food collection). You'll then toss your fruit and veggie scraps into the bucket. Once it's full, you shoot us a text. We'll look at our lawn fertilization schedule, and text you back to let you know the next day we'll be in your area (typically within a week). For each full bucket we pick up, we'll give you a $4 credit to purchase Good Sweet Earth products and/or services.
We are a bit picky about what we feed our worms, which means we don't want certain things put in the buckets:
- nothing with small seeds (tomatoes, berries, cucumbers),
- no citrus (too acidic for our worms),
- no peppers (small seeds AND the capsaicin in the spicy ones can be rough on the worms' delicate skin),
- no egg shells,
- no meat, dairy or oils (neither animal- nor plant-based oils),
- no cooked, sauced, seasoned or processed foods (baked goods, canned goods, etc)
- no landscape scraps or trimmings (a minimal amount of cut flowers are ok).
- leafy greens,
- root veggies,
- fruits (peaches, cherries, apples, bananas & peels, grapes, etc)
- avocados and their skins,
- celery,
- onion skins & garlic skins,
- coffee grounds & tea leaves,
- herbs & flowers.
If you have any questions, shoot us an email at Office@GoodSweetEarth.com.