WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:22.519 Yo, it's going on. Everybody. Welcome to a new episode 2 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.600 of Mechanic Cass. I'm Kendon, Dave, I'movy. On today's episode, 3 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.359 we have a special guest, Clay of Morgan Composting and 4 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.079 Smoking Tomatoes, joining us today. Thank you for joining us. 5 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:33.479 Hey, welcome, Yeah, thank you for having me on. Appreciate it. 6 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:35.240 Yeah, We've I feel like a long time coming. You know, 7 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:36.200 we've been talking about. 8 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.560 This and that's little stuff met at uh Michigan Matt's 9 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.840 metric mash. That's that was in October at the Hopbox Social. 10 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.640 It's pretty cool. Vote and by the time this comes out, 11 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:46.960 we probably will be seeing each other again. 12 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.479 The other view can if. 13 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.119 You have to check that episode out. That one just 14 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:52.840 came out a little while ago. Check out the Michigan 15 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.560 Mad episode. Just fine, a little plug it all in 16 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:57.520 and then I just want to give a quick shout out, 17 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.960 real quick to our partner. Shout out Lost caust Plant Therapy, 18 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.920 Mike Can twenty old Score Organics, retro grow awesome. Check 19 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.439 out those great genetics can't be extracts, Premium Genetics. Yeah, 20 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.840 Kinship cannabis Co. They do a lot of cloud Scare 21 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.959 and High nine Mike strive Kinship yep, Mike Canna cast 22 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.159 for the back for the High Nine. 23 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:18.439 You can them in all fifty states. 24 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.359 Yeah, but yeah, just really really excited to make this 25 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:23.359 one happen because I feel like sometimes when we get 26 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.280 lost in the in these interviews, it's always like brands 27 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.879 like growers, genetics, like again, love this because that's the 28 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:30.599 that's the bump. 29 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:32.519 No one talks about all these ants, l A, these 30 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:32.959 things that. 31 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.879 Really build the industry, that you know that really build 32 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.760 the industry, And like you're rocking a couple of brands here. 33 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:40.840 So we're gonna kind of deep dive and do different 34 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:42.879 types of soils and composts and all the things that 35 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.519 you do. So I'm really excited. But first we always 36 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:47.280 like to start with, Yeah, who our guest is? 37 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.640 So Clay? Like ye, give our listeners a little background 38 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:50.560 about Clay? Sure? 39 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.920 Sure, So I'm Clay work for more than composting. My 40 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:58.680 background is actually in horticulture, kind of perennials, groundcovers, outdoor plants. 41 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:01.719 You'd see I did at for about twelve years on 42 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.719 West Michigan, Oh co Wow yep, yep. I graduated from 43 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.959 Hope back way back when in twenty twelve, and then 44 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.159 I went right into working for a green roof company 45 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:15.400 growing green roofs and seedums outdoor grow about sixty acres 46 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.479 producing that, and then moved towards indoor growing and perennials 47 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.599 and annuals, and then just continue that through my career 48 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:26.879 and then got into cannabis growing for a year and 49 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.719 then now I'm here doing sales for We're in composting soils, 50 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.319 nutritions and kind of starting the framework and groundwork for 51 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.400 no pun intended for companies. 52 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.680 So Morgan Composting is like the parent company of said 53 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:44.439 all these smoking tomatoes were wrapping and you know, and 54 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.520 dairy do. So let's kind of dig into like more 55 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.439 and composting and like, you know, like wait, so how'd 56 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:51.919 you end up at Morgan Composting. 57 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.919 Yeah, So previous to Morgan Composting, I was working for 58 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.879 a large grower East Lansing, and it just happened twenty 59 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.520 twenty two, just the market the way it was in 60 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.280 the company, my position got eliminated. So I went on 61 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.599 the job search and I just kind of shoot my 62 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.000 shot at anything that was related to growing plants because 63 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:14.240 cultivation is my my forte. I guess you could say 64 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:19.120 in propagation. Cool. And so I found an opportunity for 65 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.719 an agricultural sales rep for them and just kind of 66 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.360 put in my my application and still looking and they 67 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.960 reached out and it just felt right. And it's a 68 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.479 great family company and they've been treating me really well 69 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.280 and accepting of me even though I'm like the normal 70 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.680 farmer kind of person that fits in behind. Yeah. Yeah, 71 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.319 now that's what I do now and it's awesome. 72 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:47.280 Good yeah, good Rege. So we actually met him years ago. Yeah, no, yeah, 73 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.919 a little site not out there da yeah, tag of farmers. 74 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:56.919 I always think, so, how am in articulture? Jesus horticulture culture? 75 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:57.240 Yeah? 76 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.199 I did that for what I said, Yeah, I know, 77 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.639 so for horticulture. I was doing that for twelve years, 78 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:05.360 and then I did agriculture sales for about a year 79 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.280 and just recently I got I got transitioned on. They 80 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.599 allowed me to focus more on the cannabis side and 81 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:12.919 growing our smoking tomatoes brand and just getting out and 82 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.199 meeting people and reviving that now that the market's kind 83 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.439 of what it is now and it's not terrible to 84 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:20.319 talk about. 85 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:21.759 Right, not as like taboo. 86 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.519 Yeah, that's the word I was there for. 87 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.399 I mean because like honestly, there is that normalization thing 88 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.199 that kind of had to take place for a lot 89 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:28.800 of people. 90 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.680 It's yeah, Michigan's been legal nel since what twenty eighteen, 91 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:33.399 So it's like it's more talked about now, a lot 92 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:35.879 of people know about what's going on and bring a 93 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.480 lot of tax revenues. I think more people are open 94 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.160 to it. And then you see how it's actually not horrible. 95 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.720 So Morgan Composting and there's dairy Do So, dairy Do 96 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.480 that is a product, correct, Okay, okay, because again that 97 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:50.399 was like, so what what is dry Do? 98 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.879 Yes, dry Do So. Dairy Do is our Kalmanore based 99 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.240 compost It's kind of our base product. It was the 100 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.600 first product created from the company. So the Morgan family 101 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.439 and Composting. We're a Michigan based family owned company. They're 102 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:08.000 based out of Sears. It's right next to Evert So 103 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.079 it's like, hope you're like min Michigan. Yeah, it's about 104 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.759 an hour and a half north of Lansing. Yeah, yep. 105 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.920 So their whole family have been farmers, dairy farmers for 106 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:25.040 generations and generations and like towards the eighties, nineties, they're 107 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.160 starting to deal with the manure problem where it was 108 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.360 just piling up and in those days people you'd have 109 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:31.680 to pay people to take your. 110 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.240 Manure, right right, it's not like right yeah, it's not 111 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.439 like the normal trashism we're used to now, or you 112 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:38.639 could just get rid of things like that, right right, yeah, 113 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:39.399 that's yeah. 114 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:41.959 So they're piling it up and just tired of trying 115 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:43.360 to deal with this and what do we do with this? 116 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:47.600 So one of the founders, Brad Morgan, who's the president 117 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.720 right now, he started to contact MSU and talk with 118 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:53.560 them and see like what can we do with this? 119 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.319 And they said, you can compost it. So they started 120 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.560 looking into composting and and moving towards that. And as 121 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.040 the nine these progressed the milk market, it really changed 122 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:05.920 in the dairy market change to where you either have 123 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.519 to get really big or get out, and they chose 124 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.759 in nineteen ninety six to sell the last cows and 125 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.560 go full into composting, and that was kind of the 126 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.079 birth of dairy do the first product. 127 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.120 So towards the end of like that transition, they were 128 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.000 pretty much making their own compost dairy do owing product 129 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.439 for themselves. They like, well, why don't we just sell 130 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.000 this product to the masses. That makes sense that kind 131 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.000 of transition, like, well, we have a quality product here, 132 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.279 and like you said, if there's that decline in profits 133 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.680 there and it's probably more overhead and then less profits, 134 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.040 it's like I might as well just do this. 135 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:33.759 It's probably a lot. 136 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.360 Of labor that goes into running a farm, like you know, 137 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.399 my dad did, like my grandpa had, Like he was 138 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.079 a doctor by trade, but he did a he had 139 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:41.959 like a farm, like just some cows and horses. My 140 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:43.920 dad talks about how much work that was, so like 141 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.879 to have an actual dairy farm, Like I can't imagine. 142 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:47.120 There's no day. 143 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.360 So it sounds like they work, so that's cool. 144 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.000 So that's cool. 145 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.439 So they actually know what it takes to grow, like 146 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.160 to make a product out of it, so it's neat 147 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:56.600 they do. 148 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.560 They do, And it's it's crazy how the industries changed 149 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.920 where like when they first started that they were paying 150 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.680 people to give them their manure, where now we pay 151 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.920 to get it from local farms and and that's where 152 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:09.879 we source it. And that's that's what I love about. 153 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:11.600 You buy it? What's the change? 154 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:13.560 Like why do why is it gone. Is it just 155 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.399 the supply demand, like it's harder to get now. Really 156 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:17.519 it's not necessarily supply. 157 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.360 It's more that people appreciate it for what it is 158 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.040 now and what you can put it into and just 159 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:24.439 how you can utilize manures. 160 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.920 I see before it was just cowshit. Now it's now 161 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.800 it's like an actual commodity. Right, there's a respect to going, wow, 162 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:31.600 look what they can gain from You're absolutely right, But 163 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.839 that's funny because it would just look as it's just poop, 164 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.399 you know, but now it's like poop poop, get egal money. 165 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.040 I guess I like it. 166 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:41.839 It's cool. Yeah, And it's a it's a really great 167 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.720 product too, and it takes a really big process. And 168 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.000 I think that's the biggest thing about dairy Doo and 169 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.360 just the Morgan composting products that we create is just 170 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:52.920 the quality of it and the care we put into 171 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.600 it that we really want to represent it. And I 172 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.360 feel great being a salesperson and representing there. 173 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.240 You got your root in that family buy value type 174 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:04.879 of you know, tradition because it was a family as 175 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:05.879 a family, do you know what I mean? 176 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.839 And it still is. It's still family owned, it's and 177 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.079 run Brad Soun Justin is our VP and my boss. 178 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.360 So and it just keeps going in generation. 179 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.160 So more in compost. 180 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.439 And then we went into dairy Do transition to dairy Do. 181 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.199 So dairy Do is the product and the website looks 182 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:21.680 really nice. 183 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:22.519 Yeah, I like it. 184 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.160 I checked just right now, So just looking at it 185 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:26.680 if you want to check out the products dairy Do, 186 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.120 if you're interested in all that, reach out and. 187 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.879 It's just the composting, correct, that's it. The dairy Do 188 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.159 is that every all the products dairy. 189 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:37.399 Do, we get branded a lot of that and a 190 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.519 lot of people know us as dairy Do, but technically 191 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.799 it's just a compost all of our other products, I 192 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.279 would say, especially if it's a soil mixture or potting 193 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.879 soil are based off of it or include it, so 194 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:49.679 we use it in everything. It's kind of like a 195 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:50.960 red hot with the shit. 196 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.480 On every absolutely absolutely, So what kind of product, like, 197 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.120 what can dairy Do be used for? 198 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.639 I mean it can be used for anything. The biggest 199 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:02.440 thing that it can provide people, I think is biology. 200 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.519 So it's it is a live It is a living 201 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.279 kind of like any plant. This is any plant or 202 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.840 soil type of Oh, Okay, Yeah, you just have to 203 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:11.840 be careful of how much you use it is it 204 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.919 doesn't like have a big NPK value like nitrogen and 205 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.840 phosphorus and potassium, but it's it's very rich and. 206 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.159 So it's not necessarily specified just for like the cana's plant, 207 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.120 because I know those three are big in the cannas plant. 208 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.919 So dairy do is mainly used for like in horticulture 209 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.519 and all types of plants and just helping with to 210 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:29.120 make like I know, obviously we got the smoke between 211 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.399 so I'm working there, but like, but I just because 212 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.799 I'm trying to think, like what industries can benefit from 213 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.679 darry do. What industries is dairy do in. 214 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.080 Yeah, it's really anything. If it's a plant and it's growing, 215 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.519 it can benefit from compost and depending on the system, 216 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.159 like if you're growing in rock, well, it may not 217 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.320 make sense just because it's not the right kind of media. 218 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.720 Yeah, that makes sense, but there are other. 219 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.879 Things we can use in those situations that can help 220 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:54.399 and are kind of based off of it. 221 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.799 So how much would you add to like your normal pot, 222 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.679 like a five gamon pot of how much. 223 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:00.600 We usually say if you're like spreading on the ground, 224 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:04.240 eighth of an inch to a quarter inch max on top, 225 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:06.480 just on top yet and you can even incorporate it 226 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.639 that was sit on the ground, not in pots in 227 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.919 pots two. Okay, it's just like yeah, just so a 228 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.159 quarter inch to eighth of an inch you usually get 229 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.000 to it right around. You can go heavier, just be careful, 230 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.720 but we recommend a quarter to an eighth of an inch. 231 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.720 We kind of what kind of like results do people 232 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.320 see what Darry do, Like do they see like what 233 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:28.600 do they see us? Like an increase in I know 234 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:30.840 that coming from a harder couldurre background, So I'm just 235 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.799 more curious. Like composting it just helps the overall. 236 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.799 Plant growth in general. So yeah, it'll get more product essentially. 237 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.799 Essentially, Yeah, so composts it. Like you were asking about 238 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.799 the benefits of so biology is a big one because 239 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.639 it is a lie, it's living, and it's pathogen free 240 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.360 just because of the process we do. It's an exothermic composting, 241 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.879 so it gives off heat. It'll stay at one hundred 242 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:55.000 and thirty five plus degrees throughout its life as it 243 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:58.440 cures and as it composts. So that's a big difference 244 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.799 from our company to maybe competitors is it is a 245 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:04.600 very finished product. We even cure it extra time once 246 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.000 it's done, like legally, once it's compost we go further 247 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.960 and allow it to cure an off gas, any maybe 248 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.600 remaining pathogens or gases that you don't like. So if 249 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:15.440 you get a bag of dairy to do and open it, 250 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.080 it just smells like dirt because I've definitely opened other 251 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.039 composts and it smells like ooop or it's real heavy 252 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:22.960 ammonia in your face, and that just means it's not 253 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:24.720 done composting. It's not fully done. 254 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.399 Interested kind of reminds me of like a cure if you 255 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:28.960 rush to cure. 256 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:30.080 It's like how I'm. 257 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:30.720 Relating in my head. 258 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:31.879 It's exactly like that. 259 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:34.440 Cool. Where do you store it when it's curing outdoors? 260 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.799 It's all outdoor production, yep ye. And it's really cool 261 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.639 because because of the process and kalmanor is really writt 262 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.879 it tends to have a ton of weed seeds in it. 263 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.080 And that's why we don't recommend using kalmanoor like directly 264 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.120 on a product because of that heat. It kills all 265 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.000 the weed seeds, it kills all the pathogens, but leaves 266 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.840 the good biology. So you'll see a fifty foot pile 267 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.080 of it and it'll be black. You're around, No weed's 268 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.440 growing on it, nothing there, So it's it's just a 269 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.240 really cool bitch product. And so it gives that biology. 270 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.600 But it's also really high in organic matter and carbon, 271 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.720 so it provides holding capacity to your soil, so it 272 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.840 can hold on to nutrients that maybe normally pass through, 273 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:15.600 so you can end trust using less inputs and that's 274 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:16.759 where it can kind of see. 275 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:17.639 So it's interesting. 276 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:20.639 So if you adding this compost if helping and stay alonger, 277 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:20.960 you say. 278 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:22.960 It's less nutrients, stay longer. That's that's fascinating. 279 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:27.039 That's interesting. Yeah, and that's like high overview just generalization. No, 280 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:28.200 it's that's really cool. No. 281 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.519 I mean, like I I coming from the world of 282 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:32.480 like you know, I'm not a grower, so like whenever 283 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:34.879 I have questions, it's really from such a like I'm 284 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.600 seriously asking the question, like why. 285 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:37.879 Don't you know what I mean? 286 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.840 Like that there's so much things you know, and you know, 287 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:43.480 sustainable organic compost. And then it says for homeowners and 288 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:45.960 our Argo business, So we talked to Argo business, what 289 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.840 what for homeowners? Just for like your everyday guarden type 290 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:49.200 of stuff. 291 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.039 Yep, yeah, okay, yeah, And we have a line of 292 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.639 like potting soils as well, oh for that are like 293 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.600 specific to that and contained dairy do for like your homeowner. 294 00:12:57.639 --> 00:12:59.960 And then like larger agro business, which is what I 295 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:04.960 did before focusing on cannabis. We'll blend in manures and 296 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.919 with our composts with other like amendments like gypsum and 297 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:10.679 and just raw nutrients, and then we'll send those to 298 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.960 farms where they'll spread it on their on their ground 299 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:14.320 before they plant crops. 300 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:16.799 Are these separate products or do you custom? 301 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:17.840 Nope, we do custom. 302 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.960 That's that's what you'll connect with your farm, like what 303 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.360 do you are, what's your business? 304 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.519 How can we help exactly? And even just like that, 305 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.480 as I focus on cannabis, like I'll go out and 306 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.120 I'll take soil samples for people, whether even container pot 307 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.360 samples if they're doing a like a media or a 308 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:38.120 like a container grow instead of in ground, and we'll 309 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.320 test those. We'll see what's left, what's in there, and 310 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.840 then we can recommend a blend of our products and 311 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.159 what we have on hand to achieve and it matches 312 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.480 up with what that's sweet because then has a business 313 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.240 like especially like if I was listening to that, like, 314 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:51.720 that's so nice because I can just give you a 315 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:53.759 calm like, Hey, this is what I grow, This is 316 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:54.480 how I grow. 317 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:56.639 How this is what I'm trying to get, and you 318 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:58.399 can like, how can I help in that sense because 319 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.639 you're customizing because I because a lot of times, you know, 320 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.600 we do these there's a product, here's my product, is 321 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:03.159 what I'm selling. 322 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:04.919 So that's really cool they know you offer. 323 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.440 Yeah, and whether it's a like soil ground compost blend, 324 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:10.759 whether it's a container mix, whether it's a liquid or 325 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.360 even a granular, we can customize anything for someone. 326 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:18.679 Damn that's neat man. You don't see that often the 327 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.519 customizers for the soil like unless it's like you're just 328 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:23.360 doing what the directions tell you to do. A point 329 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:24.840 two of this, point two of this. I mean, that's 330 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:25.399 just going with it. 331 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:27.840 Yeah, and that's your schedule. That's one of the biggest straws. 332 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:29.840 I would say to Morgan composting and dairy dew and 333 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:31.919 smoking tomatoes is like we can really tailor it to 334 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.120 what you want. Like I've had people who really know 335 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:35.679 what they're talking about. They know what they want in 336 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:37.720 their grow but they don't you know, they've been working 337 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:39.919 with you know X y Z company that's just gets 338 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.200 so expensive, or they they're shipping it in from across 339 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.000 the country when it's right here in Michigan and they 340 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:46.879 can just tell me if I want that's a percent 341 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:48.279 of this, this, this, and. 342 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.080 Now you're located Michigan. The farm I imagine, is there 343 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:53.799 like a do you have your own store? 344 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:55.759 No, we work with dealers. 345 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.279 So if you go, it's like kind of authorized dealers 346 00:14:58.480 --> 00:14:59.279 working your product. 347 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.440 Yeah. So yep, if you go to dairyd dot com 348 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:05.600 or smoking tomatoes dot com, there's a dealer locator on there. 349 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.399 Actually, that's a beautiful lead in. I'm gonna pull up 350 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:11.240 the next website is smoking Tomatoes. So we keep seeing 351 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:12.600 this tomato floating around the scene. 352 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:15.919 Everyone see it's on the thing. 353 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:18.480 So let's talk about smoking tomatoes. So we talked about 354 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.320 kind of like what got you know, from farm into 355 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:24.480 the composting. Now we get from composting into what is 356 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:25.279 smoking tomatoes? 357 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.440 Yeah, So backing up just a little bit after we 358 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.440 after they did the composting, they start One of the 359 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.840 things that Brad does is like it's all, we're always 360 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:35.480 looking to innovate, and he was looking at how can 361 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.360 we come up with potting soils. So he worked with 362 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.960 a lot of greenhouses and just tailored certain soils to that. 363 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:45.240 And kind of right around that time, uh, legalization was happening, 364 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:49.120 the boom was starting to happen. So we decided and 365 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.399 and just like that industry was so taken off and 366 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:54.120 kind of getting on the green rush. We created products 367 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.360 that were designed for cannabis specific and that's where the 368 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:58.519 smoking tomatoes. 369 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.159 Comes because I look on your website and it looks 370 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:04.960 like just just just just off the top layer website toplay. Sorry, 371 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.279 I really didn't mean that pun, but I'm gonna take it. 372 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:13.679 Everyone's like crickets out there makes either me or clay left. 373 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:17.320 Well anyways, No, you got a couple mixes seed to 374 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.960 clone mix one, veg mixed two and then I jumped 375 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:21.399 at the top. 376 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.600 But it looks like there's a third mix for a 377 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:25.240 super bloom mix yep. 378 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.919 And then we actually have a fourth blend. So so 379 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:32.360 typically two and like so we have smokingmatoes one which 380 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.120 is seed and clone, and then we have two and 381 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:38.759 three for veget and flour. We don't normally like advertiser 382 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.840 having stores the two and the three. Just from a 383 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.519 consumer base, we found that we created a kind of 384 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:46.279 hybrid of two and three called Smoking Tomatoes twenty three, 385 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:49.799 which is a veg and bloom soil and it'll take 386 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:53.919 you into bloom. And that's really the Cadillac, like, that's 387 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:55.600 the one if you just want something to put in, 388 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.519 put your plant in and have success, that's the one. 389 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.159 And it's got twenty different ingreded and some minerals in it. 390 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.359 It's organic, it's living, I guess. 391 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.000 So this one is that the these blends a little 392 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:11.079 bit more focused on the phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen. 393 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:13.920 Yeah backwards, yeah, and and. 394 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:21.200 H no, I'll give you. 395 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.200 No, and you're right. Yeah. It does come with a 396 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.000 light charge of everything, and it's it's almost more like 397 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:29.440 mineral and some nutrient based and slow release nutrients like 398 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.400 phosphorus can take a long time to break down, so 399 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:32.960 we put that in there so by the time it's 400 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:36.200 into flower, it's broken down the hard rock phosphate in 401 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.200