Q:   When did you start investing in training on compost production?   Matt:  That would have been 2016.  We'd been... for lack of a better term, farting around with it for a couple of years. We had some issues with the tree service, and in 2016, we actually sold all the equipment for the tree division. We sold the bucket truck, the chipper, the chip truck, we sold everything off. I retained my chainsaw and my climbing gear, and that was it. I didn't cut one tree that year because we decided...

Q:   Why start Evanston Valley Enterprises from your perspective?   Robin:  I think as the four or five people in the family who started this company, it's almost like we've got an entrepreneurial spirit where we're always thinking ‘what could we do with this and what we could do with that’.  So, when we saw the wood chips steaming when we were loading them up, and they looked so dark, that's why we started EVE. We saw an opportunity, now what can we do with it?  We can make compost!   Doug:...

Q:  Give me the history of Evanston Valley Enterprises?   Matt Knepper:  Evanston Valley Enterprises started when we had an ice storm here in Southern Indiana. When we got our start with K&K Tree Division, what really put us on the map and got us busy was the ice storm in the winter of 2008-09.  We had a small chipper, and we produced mountains of wood chips.   We had two different properties across the road from each other where we piled the wood chips.  One wood chip pile we were able to...