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Healthy Soils Week and World Soils Day

We know we’re late to the party, but earlier this month we celebrated Healthy Soils Week (Dec 2-6) and Healthy Soils Day (Dec 5) by stuffing our faces with Christmas cookies and chocolate. It’s hard to play in the soil with all this rain… But this is another chance to remind our customers about the Healthy Soils grant program and how it can help pay for compost applications on California farmland. Grant programs can be complicated, but we can say from experience that Healthy Soils is a useable program that will help you pay for compost. They even offer technical assistance for anyone who’s confused by terms like “Geo-tagged photos,” “digitally signed PDFs,” or “C:N ratio.” Start the paperwork now, and hopefully you can start applying compost when the sun comes out. Merry Christmas from the crew at Cold Creek Compost!

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  • Healthy Soils Week and World Soils Day

    December 23, 2024

    We know we’re late to the party, but earlier this month we celebrated Healthy Soils Week (Dec 2-6) and Healthy Soils Day (Dec 5) by stuffing our faces with Christmas cookies and chocolate. It’s hard to play in the soil with all this rain… But this is another chance to remind our customers about the […]

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  • Pumpkins and Christmas Trees

    November 15, 2024

    We love composting your holiday leftovers: whether it’s the pumpkins, Christmas trees, or grandma’s burned Brussels sprouts. Altogether they make for a healthy mix of nutrients and carbon that’s perfect for fertilizing. But please, before you throw the pumpkins in the greenwaste bin, take your candles out. And make sure to take the lights off […]

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  • Shone Farm Fall Festival

    August 16, 2024

    At Cold Creek Compost, we are proud to support Shone Farm, a cornerstone of agricultural education and community engagement in Sonoma County. Located in the Russian River Valley AVA, Shone Farm is part of SRJC’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Department and provides students with hands-on learning experiences that go far beyond the classroom. We are […]

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  • Compostable Plastics are Tricky

    July 9, 2024

    Have you ever found yourself confused when you’re standing at a garbage can with recycling, trash, and compost compartments? We don’t blame you. Some green film plastic bags are compostable, and some are green but no more compostable than your water bottle. And to make matters even more complicated, some of those “compostable” bags are […]

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  • Donkey Day Care

    April 10, 2024

    Have you ever wondered why you don’t see lonely homeless donkeys walking the streets of Mendocino County? It’s because of the kind-hearted folks at Oscar’s Place. Oscar’s place is not only a sanctuary for donkeys, it is also a great place for people to get some donkey therapy. Cold Creek Compost is happy to donate […]

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