source of mac nut hulls

[laurarice]

I am searching for a truckload of more of macnut hulls to use of organic matter in my heavy clay soil to improve drainage.Does anyone know of a current supplier?

Laura

[terracore]

There is a guy in HA who grows mac nuts and presses them for biodiesel to run his farm equipment. He sells big bags of the pressed byproduct (crushed nut and shells) to people who buy the bags and dump them into water, harvest the floating nut chunks off the top, make mac nut butter from it, and then sell at the farmer's markets. Other people buy the pressed byproduct for chicken feed. The moral of the story is, go to the makuu market tomorrow and ask the people who are selling mac nut butter if they have any hulls for sale, to them it's a byproduct of a byproduct, so may be cheap.

Mauna Loa is one of the big mac nut buyers and they burn their waste to help power their factory, or at least they used to.

[laurarice]

Thanks for the help with this. I will check maku'u. I never thought of that.

I also founa an old thread that suggested Hamakua mac not farms. They process in Kawaihai. So I called them and they sell hulls for 2- a pickup and will load for you if you come during the weeknand come before 3. coorespondingly cheaper prices for larger amounts. On weekends there is no one available to load for you but the hulls are free and they are open until pm.

Laura

[The_Saints]

Sanfords sells macnut hulls and macnut hull soil and/or cinder mixes at the Kapoho site.