Who We Are

We are a worker-owned and operated residential compost collection service that uses cargo bicycles to haul food scraps from your kitchen to local composting sites in Santa Cruz. We believe that the resilience of our communities is inseparable from the health of the land we live on. Transforming our food waste into fertile compost is one small way we can collectively nurture the land in the midst of global environmental crisis, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and sequester carbon in the soil. All workers have an ownership stake in the business, get a share of yearly profits, and make democratic decisions about how we operate.

We collect about 2,000 lbs of material weekly via bicycle and process it manually over a 4- month cycle. Once the finished compost has matured it is ready to be returned to customers for their home gardens. Our process is old-school.  We create compost with manual labor and without added chemicals or fertilizers. All of our material comes from Santa Cruz County and all of our finished soil goes back into our local community.