Join us for our first Farm Friday! 5th generation grower Clay Gebbers talks dirt, composting, and sustainability in the orchard! Visit JoyfullyGrown.com to learn more about the great fruit we grow on our family farms in North Central Washington.
Video Transcript:
“Hi I’m Clay Gebbers and I’m fifth generation of the Gebbers family here in Brewster.
This is Ruby Mae, she’s sixth generation. Say hi, Ruby.
We’ve been asked to talk to you a little bit about sustainability and things we do here at Gebbers Farms.
So we’re here at our composting site. This is the most glamorous place on the ranch.
But here’s where we try to take anything that could possibly be a waste on the farm
and we compost it all together and try to put it back into our orchards.
We’ll mix it with some of our old feed from our cattle ranch here.
We’ll mix it together also with any broken bins, any broken pallets
and wood that comes out of orchards that have been grafted.
We’ll take that old wood, we’ll grind it all up.
We’ll bring a grinder in, chip it up. That all goes back into the mix
and then we’ll turn that throughout the course of the summer.
Here’s the final product. It turns into a rich dark soil from that big mess of all those ingredients.
And this will go back into our orchards to start their life cycle all over again.”
