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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> So, maybe here's a golden opportunity for someone with some land to go into 
> business and become a compost farm. 

While you have somewhat of an idea there, there's a rub.  The reason all that 
organic material is so readily available now is that no one wants it.  Most 
of it is a liability and an expense.  The rub is this:  as soon as there's 
viable market for the compost, all that material becomes valuable and scarce. 
 
It's a lot like the French fry oil conundrum.  

I think the real opportunity, if such there be, is in guiding people toward 
raising some of their own food using the sort of methods we on this list use. 
 
If everyone raised just a little of their own food, our dependency on 
agribusiness would weaken considerably.  Unlike the motor fuel situation, if 
all the 
locally discarded organic material were turned into topsoil, a very great 
number of people could participate in hte process to some profit (not 
'profit' in 
the business school sense, of course).

None the less, if compost were to be had for sale, I'd buy it.  It's a better 
place to invest money than anything I can think of.