NEED COMPOST? - If you are looking for some compost materials for your garden or would just like to help divert organic waste from going into the landfill, you can check here to see if anyone has put anything out either at their business or home. *If you pick something up or if something you have put out is picked up, please note. Thanks and happy gardening! Leave drop-off/pick-up info below in the comments area.
- FLOUR GARDEN – bring your own pail with cover/including your name & phone number. 5 gallon pail largest size possible.
- NEVADA CITY MARKETPLACE – bring your own pail.
If you don’t want to make it yourself here are some local places for buying compost in bulk.
FOOTHILLS
- Four Seasons – www.fourseasonsmaterials.com - Four Seasons Landscape Materials is a family owned and operated business serving Nevada County. Since our inception, we have made a commitment to the communities in which we serve and live. Our business is a reflection of our family and those that we call customers. Our intention is to provide our customers with the best quality landscape materials available in our region.
- Peaceful Valley Farm Supply – www.grow organic.com – Bulk Compost, classes on composting, worm sales and products to help.
- Vital Landscaping – Organic compost sprayed with compost tea. Availbale for pick-up or delivery – 40.00 yard, quantity discounts.12817 Loma Rica Drive, Grass Valley, Ca 95945 – 530.273.3187
NEVADA
- Full Circle Compost - www.fullcirclecompost.com, – Craig Witt, now Owner and President, has since converted their dairy farm into a thriving, full-scale composting operation, the first of its kind permitted in the State of Nevada. Doing business under the name of Full Circle Compost, Inc., they are also the first composting site offering the recycling of organic materials from the Tahoe Basin and the Carson Valley. In addition to humified compost, Full Circle produces custom compost mineral blends, blended topsoil, fertile mulches, compost tea, and vermicompost.
Besides his involvement with numerous local community programs, Craig has been certified as a Composting Expert by the State of Nevada Environmental Protection Agency, is a consultant and representative of Midwest Bio-Systems where he conducts feasibility studies for new compost sites and start-up for new composting equipment, has been a featured speaker at composting schools throughout North America, Canada, and Mexico, and is listed on the 2006 Lake Tahoe BMP Resource Professionals list.
Resources:
- Blue Belly Farms - http://www.bluebellyfarm.com – 530-894-1276
- Keep Truckee Green – www.keeptruckeegreen.org - Info on backyard composting, in addition to bin options and vermicomposting.
