What’s up at Grimm’s?

The biofilters have been running since the end of April helping regulate temperature in the composting zones. 

Make sure and wave if you’ve see our new truck on the road.  It’s a 2021 Kenworth T880, with clean diesel technology.  The cab is quiet, A/C works great and it drives like a pickup – but don’t tell the boss! 

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE!   Who knew the supply of hemlock bark would be so limited this year?  The amount of hemlock bark available from the mills is greatly reduced.  They tell us it’s because of a change in logging practices.  Greater use of “feller bunchers”, mechanical tree limb removal in the forest, has reduced the amount of bark on the trees that are delivered to the mills.  Hemlock bark has fewer slivers than fir but they both look the same on the ground.

Here’s a link to our most recent “Virtual Tour” with Garden Time: