A nice visit with Jeremy and Brian at the Catawba County landfill combined with some biodiesel consulting – May 4th through 6th
INTERN HOUSING
The Catawba County Landfill interns Jeremy and Brian have set up house in this beautifully tended home and invited us to stay with them when we came to visit and help get their Gas Chronograph online.
They are keeping bees in the back yard and we were interested to learn that the new hive on the left was fitted with a insert to make it easier for the new bees to keep the older bees from entering their hives. The established bees find the new hive attractive so the new bees appoint guard bees to prevent them from coming in. Restricting the entrance with a wooden insert gives them a smaller entrance to guard.
KOMBUCHA KING
When we arrived at the house, Jeremy offered us a glass of his incredibly delicious carbonated kombucha. The next day he showed us around his basement kombucha factory. He uses a neat little tool, a brix refractometer to determine sugar content.
INDUSTRIAL DOVE
Camille was surprised to see a morning dove sitting on a nest atop a conveyor chute which will feed sunflower seed into the building to be crushed and turned into oil.
DOVELET
After Camille spooked the dove away with her camera, Brian climbed up for a closer look at the nest and found one egg and one tiny chick.
FEEDSTOCK TOWER AND CONVEYOR
All brand-spanking-new and waiting to be used!
SEED CRUSHING OPERATION
The equipment inside the building is beautiful and awaits production.
INCINOLET
The icing on the cake is this toilet, a state-of-the-art Incinolet.