Urban Farming Using Wood Chips to Create the Best Organic Fertilizer

John from www.growingyour... visits the Last Organic Outpost Community Farm in Houston, Texas to share with you how they are creating some of the best FREE fertilizers on the planet at their farm by using several free resources including: Wood Chips, Chipped Yard Waste, Fruit and Vegetable Waste, Worms and more. You will discover that soil is the best investment you can make when organic gardening or farming and how you can literally put money in the bank by building your soil.
You will discover the secret to why using wood chips to create a fungal dominated compost as well as a bacterial based thermal compost made with wood chips and fruit and vegetable scraps that is aerated to speed up the decomposition is critical to creating a productive, low cost fertilizer that will bring the highest level of fertility and organic matter to the land.
In this episode you will also discover why compost makes you (and your garden) feel good as well as the role that earthworms and black soldier flies can play in building fertility in the soil.
You will discover some of the crops that are being grown in Houston, Texas if you are wondering some of the vegetables you should plant if you live in this area or not.
You will also learn how to best utilize the wood chips in your garden to create raised beds that will increase soil nutrition and fertility over time instead of decrease it as common synthetic fertilizers and tilling.
Finally, John will make his personal suggestions to the farm on how to take this farm "to the next level" by supercharging their biologic systems already in place on the farm with 70-90 different trace minerals to increase yields, increase the health of the plants, and create healthier food for the community.
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[@grintz77]

For trace minerals, how about growing a special patch of comfrey that has roots that go deep and mine the minerals way down in the earth. Chop the comfrey and use it in hot or fungally dominated compost and in worm bins. Easy and effective.

[@BenRawPower]

just having the chips over the earth keeps it moist and encourages life.

[@p.b.j.6438]

Hey John, I called the local landfill who save wood chippings/shavings from landscapers in a huge pile that is composting as we speak. It's free for local residents. They load it onto the pickup truck with a giant front end loader. It's amazing. And did I mention its FREE? Perhaps other landfills have similar programs.

[@jeannettedan]

I am motivated....and have been for years been wanting to turn an acre of our land into something useful. The problem is that the past owner pushed away all the topsoil away in order to make the land flat. My husband has always been telling me nothing will grow in the rock/clay like soil. 2 years ago I convinced him to lay down a thick layer of newspaper, which we than added wood chips (not enough though) and soil on top of that. I noticed last year there were worms there which I knew was a good thing. But the pumpkins I tried to grow didn't do too well. Thank you for all this amazing info. I live in Ontario, Canada and can't wait to improve further this year :)

[@chargermopar]

This is why I own a Bobcat and a woodchuck chipper. I get tons of yard debris from local lawn guys. They are so grateful that they do not have to drive to the dump and pay to get rid of it.

[@GardeningWithPuppies]

I've been using woodchips in my veggie garden for 3 years. Turned my beach sand into black gold.

[@TSis76]

Gardening With Puppies Ditto. Straw has worked wonders as a deep mulch as well in the clay/rock "concrete" soil in this part of So Cal.

Cilantro/Coriander is great for detoxing heavy metals. Turmeric and Cilantro/Coriander are excellent aid for those suffering Alzheimers disease or other glutamate and mylenination related disorders.

[@Bradenthor]

There is a composting facility near by which also provides mulch, special mixes of soils, and gravel. When they get a fresh shipment, when it rains a lot, or they turn it, you can smell it for a few miles. I don't consider it a foul smell, but it is pretty potent!

[@Pinkenstein]

What a cool place!! I would love to start a place like this.

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Good stuff! We use wood chips on our garden and get it basically for nothing! Lots of free healthy materials to get for free if you look! John needs to make a trip down to our farm and check us out!

[@sajmt1414]

Great tips. Thanks so much. I learn so much from your videos.

[@cmb3737]

Thank you very much! Great learning

[@petramacdougall]

Ha Ha John....After watching your video on Gardening with woodchips video we ripped out our front lawn and put down woodchips last fall....our neighbors haven't expressed any dislike for it yet....but we have people knocking on our door asking about our deer fence.....we used emt, like the guy used in one of your video's, for trellises...thx John for your vid's!

[@TheASTrader]

Some urban "farms" growing vegetables in NYC are testing positive for lead. I hope that isn't the case here, being that this area has a history of industry.

[@dannoquin7322]

Thanks, John, another great video.

[@a1hardwood]

mulch made with walnut leaves will stop plants from growing. the other thing, if the chips come from evergreen and fruit trees has blights that were on the trees. this effects apple trees and pear trees and any evergreen plants in your yard. and if you use mulch the trees will get the blight. great videos, john

[@leptoon]

Thanks for all your help. I got my Worm Gold Plus in the mail a few days ago and I can already tell there's a noticeable acceleration in the growth of my seedlings. I just need to figure out when the best time would be to apply the boogie brew compost tea.

[@Hi-gb9cf]

Great setup. Good find John!

[@gardeningtipswithphil2244]

Some great stuff going on there and plants going great. As an enhancer I would suggest seaweed solution for minerals for the plants. The raised beds look like they are based on the hugelkultur principles and will produce some fantastic resist, particularly from the second year on..

[@vegannursepractitioner9629]

always love your videos, the wood chips are packed with minerals, and are their leaves, trees roots go deep into the subsoil and rocks to get their minerals, breaking down the minerals in the rocks using microbes and the such, then the roots will bring them up into the tree and leaves, so the wood chips are already processed rock, several years ahead of just putting rock dust into the garden! Nothing better to add to the garden makeup than wood chips and fall leaves, look how well nature does on them. The mighty oak tree, 500 foot Redwoods, who gives them their rock dust :). OF course if you don't use fall leaves or woodchips, then you do need to add rock dust in my opinion

[@AnggusKopeliani]

Very interesting and informative, thank you for an interesting video. Thank U.

[@iwentvegan4481]

I made that same system of piping for my compost pile. I need to make a youtube video on how to make one. The compost breaks down way faster with the air blower system

[@geraldinegallegos6146]

Yes,you should make a KZbin

[@kprairiesun]

Love that about smelling the compost and feeling euphoric!

[@Dollapfin]

I'm not buying too much rock dust because I heard that leaves have TONS of trace minerals in them from the long roots of the trees they grow on. I mean obviously rock dusts are a faster and more direct way of getting the minerals, but after a few years of using them, I'm cutting them and just using leaf compost.

[@charlesjacques750]

Great vid learned s lot. Thanks John!

[@theTORTUGAZUL]

Howdy, welcome to Texas John . Houston was my stomping ground back in the early 90's .

[@faeriegardener84]

Personally I would think that a garden based on composted wood chips, which originated as trees, with some possibly very deep roots, would be loaded in minerals of all kinds. Could you possibly be adding greater concentrations by adding rock dust? Maybe of some... but those wood chips are probably doing an amazing job without any help at al.

[@constancelovejoy7308]

The blob fungus is from the wood chips. I've gotten that when using wood chips from our city as mulch for a path. It's annoying but once chips decompose which can taken several months, the blob fungus doesn't come back.

[@dash-4150]

Awesome, I just watched the video return to Eden, which explains the all natural biomass back to nature style gardening.

[@BackmanSimon]

I hope John can visit Paul Gautschi's transcending farm in the future.

[@Dyshof]

you mean back to Eden? Yeah this Mr Gautschi is really enlightening

[@dash-4150]

Yes

[@dennisolivier3720]

Half wood chips, half clay soil in my garden beds grew fantastic tomato crop.

[@KYfishguy]

are you tilling mulch into your clay soil? its what i want to do but im getting mixed advice.

[@dennisolivier3720]

When I can get leaf bags in town. Grass clippings from 2 1/2 acres goes into compost with leaves. Takes a while to get the mulch but worth it.

[@veronicabe7902]

Hey John, u can look up how to grow mushroom mycelium in compost, and this stuff breaks down coffee ground, wood chips, and kitchen waste quickly. like a monster or alien from out of space that's came to eat your compost. It is then the worms will have a chow down quickly and deliciously, leaving behind the good compost.

[@petramacdougall]

So we just planted a cherry tree, pulled back the chips and dug a hole...there were so many worms in the dirt...they really seem to love being under the wood chips....so i wonder if i even need to add compost or trace minerals like you mention at the end of your video....the worms must be making heaps of nutrient rich vermicompost down there....because this is the first year of gardening here i may add kelp fertilizer...and compost tea...but after seeing all those worms...i'm pretty confident the soil will have loads of nutrients in it already!

[@tiki_t]

Did anyone else who used wood chips have an issue of attracting beetles and suddenly have a massive grub problem? We tried the Back to Eden method and a year later, now I have to turn my soil regularly to fish out thousands of grubs. I tried predatory nematodes to fight them (I won't use the poison around my edibles) and it did nothing.

[@aaroncole7736]

Tanja F ...you should get some chickens on that.

[@tiki_t]

So, I ended up donating the dug up grubs to the local chicken raising neighbors because keeping a chicken(s) wasn't an option back then for our family (no time, no room, too many predators in the yard). Eventually I ran into someone who really helped with the problem. He has an orchard but also doesn't believe in spraying. He said to take an old coffee can and poke holes near the rim to make a handle. Fill the can with one or two of your fruit that they are after (adult fig eater beetles... my culprits of the source of the problem), cover only what is in the can with the poison Seven. That way you don't have to poison your whole yard. Hang it in the tree and watch the beetles crawl over each other to get at the poison fruit. He was right and it was terrifying how many came and died. Those traps essentially attract anything in the entire neighborhood. At the end of the season, we just threw the can in the garbage can. We still had a few grubs the next season but it was one or two here and there in the compost pile instead of an infestation of thousands that were taking out whole sections of the yard by decimating the roots of plants. It was much easier to manage. A lesson and remedy for doing this during a drought when the insects are in a frantic survival mode.

[@aaroncole7736]

Wow incredible, thanks for sharing that.

[@TheItalianGarden]

so thats what those cocoons i find in my garbage can slow composter. There are literally hundreds in there. I just figured they were some sort of bug that wasn't a problem. But after some looking up they actually digest and poop out very rich worm castings. guess there they occur pretty naturally in my area.

[@PeaceOutWorld]

I got an heirloom variety of cilantro that was supposed to stand up better in the hotter part of the growing season, literally called Slo Bolt. It bolted twice as fast as the commercial variety. lol Oh well. Cilantro is one of my favorites, so I'll have to check out your mentioned varieties.

[@cnypilot]

It is depressing how fast Cilantro bolts. :-/

[@catfunksfabulousfinds]

Hello from Oregon!

[@Soulman-lb3gg]

I wish I had Houston's growing season. Pretty much year round gardening.

[@jacobtyler7172]

It's true. You can grow avocado's as long as you mulch...pretty much anything. "Love it mayn!"

[@pattimincher4201]

My understanding was that you do not add woodchips to a garden . That you could use them as a mulch but you could not mix it with the soil or it would deplete the nitrogen. I have been collecting woodchips from a landscaper for over a year but I use them for path materials.

[@jacobtyler7172]

You have to let the chips sit and slow decompose (fungal decomp). This type of soil is very vigorous for plants. Think Redwood Forest (all wood and leaves feed mammoth trees). Don't mix wood with the soil. Just let the woodchips sit on top.

[@pattimincher4201]

So I could take my path chips and put them in the garden soil once they start to break down ?

[@jacobtyler7172]

Paths of wood chips are a definite improvement. Less compaction (worms can move through it) and there is a ton of decomp happening, with the fungal excretion being a prime fertilizer for all plants. This is a huge reason as to why forests are so productive. The excretion from fungal species, worms as well as other microbes are perfectly bioavailable to the plants' roots. I would mulch everything with woodchips and/or coconut coir....and anything that worms can eat, while benefiting the plants (whilst not attracting rodents). Cardboard, rice and woodchips and coconut coir has been an extremely good habitat for worms/fungus that feeds plants really well while saving A LOT of water. Hope this helps:)

[@nznige]

I have some raised gardens which are ONLY wood chips =) Seems to be growing fine so far, have potatoes, basil, marigolds and sunflowers growing in it all seem to be doing fine, panted out into as seedlings, they are about 6 months decomposed by still pretty whole

[@abideenturky]

You the best , thanks

[@veronicabe7902]

great video. you are right, must have your hands in compost making to learn more about c. tilling is areation is mineralize the compost is very important. Mineralize, well rock dust is very expensive, and should l use it in making my compost. will it leak out and get wasted. any way, buble compost tea, putting it on growing bed, or compost pile? it seems wasted effort on the compost, but it may multiply bacteria and speed up the composting.

[@Lanninglongarmmowing]

John do you have any videos on heating a greenhouse?

[@realworldprepper]

Neat project to reclaim an urban waste land, but isn't there any concern as to the chemical compounds from the automotive fluids which are surely present (from leaks) getting taken up by the plants? Thanks for sharing.

[@Kobayashhi]

No mulching on the soil? Inspiring vid man.

[@catfunksfabulousfinds]

Leaves also add minerals!

[@nznige]

permaculture techniques don't advocate putting sections of crops together due to difficulty of pest management, another great video though thanks!

[@MsKipper42]

the videos are informative but it takes you so long to get to the point.....

[@pearljameric]

+sheree kiplinger I agree. I love the information I just with it were about 10 mins long as opposed to 30. I fell like there is a lot of useless information.

[@shreve99]

I was just thinking the same thing! I don't want to hear all the useless jabber...just get to the point!

[@madtaxpayer5818]

then watch something else ;)

[@MsKipper42]

Hmm that's a good idea. Thanks

[@BulletmanDoom]

The whole of youtube is now using the same daft format. The whole point of it used to be instant access and information but now we have to sit through 10 minutes of self promotion at the start of every video.

[@pulquedelmejor]

I bought a truck load of "compost" drom my local county supplier . When I brought it home It was very dry. I tried to get water and it would roll off..it just would not penetrate. I abandon the soil because something about it didnt look right. It kinda had a whit look to it. Its been sitting there for 3 years and I don't see no signs of life. So I was thinking that maybe it was not compost made out of just wood chips but more of grass clippings. I wondered...don't grass clippings have Roundup?

[@dianeburgess5750]

Hi John I live in Potugal and cannot find wood chips but I can buy pine bark chips is this ok on my raised beds vegetable beds

[@kylelaberge9880]

If I were to start a farm should i cover the entire ground with about a foot of wood chips and then build permanent beds on top comprised of compost? I just feel like the wood chips would rob nitrogen from the plants. Any suggestions would be great.

[@x2xbrandtx2x]

if the wood chips where just chopped from green trees would you consider them to be a green or brown ingredient, if green, how long until they turn brown?

[@lisastoner6635]

Is it a concern that the food waste is not organic, but is likely GMO and has been exposed to chemicals like commercial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides?

[@2006marsha]

. I'm confused John. I thought when you put soil over wood chips, the wood chips steal all the nitrogen out of the soil?

[@ajaypalsinghrathore3156]

What can be substitute of rockdust if any country dosent have volcanic rock or rivers flowing

[@alan30189]

This is kind of an upside-down "Back to Eden" (BTE) method of using wood chips in your garden. As the wood chips break down they nourish and build the soil. I disagree with the method of putting the chips down first, and then the compost, and planting in the compost. That is not the BTE method. The roots will probably go down into the chips and be robbed of nitrogen. It would be best to put the compost down first, mix it into the existing soil, and then several inches of partially decomposed wood chips. Move the chips aside and plant in the soil and mulch around the plants with chips as the plants come up. The whole idea is the chips keep the soil moist, less water is needed, weed growth is suppressed or eliminated, and the chips help prevent erosion. Plants grow in the soil only and are mulched by the chips. As the chips break down further, they feed the plants and nitrogen is not robbed from the plants. You can, of course, mix in a little compost into the chips to assist them in the breakdown process. New wood chips should be composted for at least six months before using. Here on this farm the compost will just sink eventually down into the chips or wash away and weed growth will be a problem. You want to prevent roots from growing into the chips, as they will with this guy's technique, unless the plants have very shallow roots. You see that fungus growing around those plants in the video? Fungus grows in nitrogen depleted condition, usually where there is wood breaking down, so you know that is happening in this garden. Plants will still grow, but not to their full potential. For more information on the BTE method, watch www.backtoedenfilm.com/ and also L2Survive's channel where he does numerous interviews with Paul Gautschi.

[@alan30189]

***** What this guy is doing is more akin to hugelkultur. You can pull up some videos of that on KZbin.

[@lianagilbert61]

do you have to grow two papayas?

[@MrMinigunman101]

I live 4 hours south of Houston

[@arthurrat7566]

you are a treasure

[@kima3786]

I would have came see you had I known you were in Houston.

[@Anythingforfreedom]

24:00 “the BLOB” 😂

[@davidpeters7521]

I would never use this method! the wood chips rob the nitrogen from the soil or compost. I don't have to add worms. I would use the wood chips mulch, but I use 2 year old saw dust as mulch green saw dust I add in the compost pile.

[@Dyshof]

Second. First from Europe

[@waynem.2431]

This is fucking great.

[@pr4runner]

Celantro? What does it like to grow in and how can you keep it from bolting?

[@TSis76]

pr4runner He talked about cilantro and culantro. Just example links. Other pages have more info on each of them. The other alternative mentioned was papalo. Cilantro: valleyseedco.com/12298/cilantro-calypso-coriander-og-seed/ Culantro: valleyseedco.com/11722/culantro-recao-ngo-gai-organic-seed/ Papalo: valleyseedco.com/11722/culantro-recao-ngo-gai-organic-seed/

[@MrSeney1]

The plastic and heat is ok?

[@Soulman-lb3gg]

Why is cardboard better to feed your worms, rather than just shredded newspaper?

[@jacobtyler7172]

Worms lay their cocoons in the corrugated section of cardboard. The cardboard stays moist and incubates perfectly, dramatically improving population multiplication. The key is to layer so worms have different micro habitats.

[@jacobtyler7172]

Oh, and a little tip....worms love a sprinkling of rice (brown or white-whatever you have) under the cardboard. In bins that I spread a bit of rice (vs. the one's without) have a substantially higher population of cocoons...I'm assuming it's the iron, calcium and amino's....etc.

[@jacobtyler7172]

Hair/nail clippings, cardboard, crustacean meal (anything that had a shell) will substantially increase the pest-control aspect of worm castings (chitinase, etc.). You'll make your own Worm Gold Plus, essentially. Diverse diet, means fewer nutritional holes, which means better castings/food for the microbeasties and of course, the plants.

[@AustinMark]

Glad to see this method. We are starting something very similar we called mulch mound culture since we originally started doing hugelkulture in steel raised beds (i'll post a link to the picture) where we had logs with some mulch and soil on top but we didn't like all the gaps from the logs so we decided why not just use mulch instead of logs. Anyway this video is basically a good example that this method works and if you want to make it look good in your yard try a large raised bed like these amzn.to/2P1WJ3g

[@Desert2GardenLV]

Dont they say that using a base of woodchips will rob nitrogen from the soil? I thought about using mulch as a base for my garden beds but decided against it when I heard it will degrade the soil on top while the mulch decomposes.

[@labcat647]

One Yard Revolution addresses this scientifically in his video titled "Does Wood Chip Mulch Tie Up Nitrogen & Increase Nitrogen Fertilization Requirements?"

[@labcat647]

***** Yes, you are correct - on top of the soil, but not mixed into the soil. I have seen "Back to Eden". Interesting film with quite a following, though I much prefer to get my advice from those basing information on scientific research.

[@labcat647]

Interesting, have not heard of Jean Pain before. I am an urban garden with only a half acres, so I don't have easy access to brushwood and other components. But I do generate about 4 cubic yards of compost yearly and have been very successful at producing most of the food that I consume. Mainly, I follow The Garden Professors' Blog on Facebook for scientifically researched advice, and follow KZbin garden channels that don't perpetuate many popular garden myths.

[@labcat647]

Nature does what it does - it's how the universe operates. Scientific research (evidence-based conclusions, casual and effect, whatever) is one of the best ways humans have to truly understand this process, though certainly not the only way. It is much too easy for a bunch of us gardeners to believe someone spouting something as being true that turns out to be a bunch of hokum.

[@gardeningtipswithphil2244]

The raised beds in this video look as though they are based on the principles of hugelkultur, which is basically building raised beds on piles of wood. At first the wood can take nitrogen out of the compost or soil but once the nitrogen is equalised no more nitrogen is used by the wood. The real benefits from hugelkultur come from the second year on as nitrogen is fed back into the soil from the rotting wood. I can last for years. Lots of real good information on youtube about hugelkultur. I suggest you start with a guy called Jack Spirko he has a good video on hugelkultur.

[@PENFOLD1962]

Hi John, I'm a NEW GARDENER All the KZbin videos on gardening say NEVER ADD WOOD CHIPS to your compost as it robs the compost of NITROGEN! Yet here you say the complete opposite, can you please explain?

[@justcause9049]

John I am trying to get my soil finished for my first year raised beds. One thing I am confused about after all the research I have done I can't figure out what is better Azomite or Vermiculite? Do you use both or will one suffice for the aerating of the soil and adding minerals? Thanks for sharing your wisdom and passion.

[@jacobtyler7172]

Get azomite. Forget vermiculite. Use some perlite or lava rock for aeration (slow mineral breakdown). Azomite is very good stuff. Immediate improvement.

[@justcause9049]

Jacob Tyler Appreciate it, thanks for the help.

[@justcause9049]

Jacob Tyler So much information out there and preparing my soil seems overwhelming. Only way to gain experience is to jump in and get it done though. Trial by fire right?...lol

[@jacobtyler7172]

Really, though, while you're learning all the organic gardening your soil amendments (wood chips as mulch, azomite, worm castings or whatever you can get that's full of nutrients-which will feed your plants better after passing through a microbe or worm (or fungus) will be decomposing slowly at first, but there will be rich soil in no time...probably as everything starts to "click" and make sense in your gardening knowledge....at which point your success will rapidly assimilate with your soil web. Hope this helps boss!

[@justcause9049]

Thank you very much Jacob, any advice helps, cause as you know with all the information out there the soil thing can be overwhelming. Much appreciated -Rodney

[@_madcrafter_8141]

1:29 Miracle Crap. XD. That's It's Official New Name. Who Agrees?

[@maximilian333]

John there are a few incredible urban garden projects in Cleveland OH downtown near the art museum and colleges- it's pretty amazing. Summer there is incredible. Here is the one the govt runs there - www.ohiocity.org/ohio-city-farm

[@keithwalker4090]

The woodchips compost soooo fast 12 inches completely gone by the end of summer

[@billypippin7825]

Does it matter what kind of wood chips

[@TeleRocker11]

Just make sure there aren't seeds from invasive plants like Himalayan Blackberries. If there is green leafy matter incorporated that is better. Other than that it doesn't matter much.

[@Dollapfin]

When are YOU doing this at your garden at your house? Better do it next year.

[@namimina6874]

Where can I get free wood chips in Houston ?

[@jeremiahshine]

Indianapolis said I can't do this.

[@ckljordan1]

how about sawdust

[@ckljordan1]

+Charles K L Jordan thanks you answered it

[@ckljordan1]

+Charles K L Jordan thanks you answered it

[@comptob19]

First!

[@cristobalperafan6816]

Estoy intersado en venderlo en Mexico el humate requiero muestrs en pequenas cantidades y hoja de uso en campo agricola yfauna y flores precios de compra Cristobal Perafan

[@coyotedick]

Slime mold, you really don't want that

[@mplslawnguy3389]

Compost isn't soil.

[@rorirory121]

I jumped the video within 2mins to 5 mins and had to quit because you talk too much and do very little demonstration. This is suppose to be a demonstration video and not a talk show.

[@aliefradilbaz]

I get tired watching this guy.

[@troyb4533]

Honestly, it's not rocket science. Go into a forest, and observe.

[@bobbyj8044]

c'mon man u don't have 33 minutes. get to the point please.

[@judclark7376]

I'd stay away from the culontro

[@trebledog]

This vid is too long.

[@BipolarPics]

"miracle crap"

[@GumboLeFunque]

John, try "working-class area" instead of "ghetto." It's a slur to those of us who live in those types of areas.

[@vaazig]

Gumbo Le Funque what if nobody actually works?

[@madtaxpayer5818]

ghetto is a ghetto, no matter how you pretty it up. As for me, no one i know is bothered by calling our hood ghetto..guess you are one of those super sensitive types

[@enobishop1419]

Gumbo Le Funque being insensitive usually comes from insecurity... l always feel better and powerful after l tell someone what to do in a non constructive manner... and for a entire week! l don't feel insignificant... it's the best!

[@theveganbug2674]

get to the point man!

[@Dollapfin]

When are YOU doing this at your garden at your house? Better do it next year.

[@namimina6874]

Where can I get free wood chips in Houston ?

[@JanelleReneArts]

+Nami Mina Just do a google search for "Tree Service Company Houston". Call as many as you can and ask them what they do with their wood chips. Most of the time they need somewhere to dump them. Sometimes they do it for free, sometimes they charge a certain amount per truckload (to pay for the gas and the driving/unloading time). Even if they don't have any available at the time, they usually will take down your contact information and will call you if they have a job near your place and need somewhere to unload the wood chips. You can also contact your city's department of public works or department of parks and ask them if they have any wood chips available to the public. Sometimes they will have a pile somewhere that you can take from yourself. And as Paul Gautschi of www.backtoedenfilm.com/ would say, "Pray for wood chips!" Hope that helps!