6 Tips for Using Quarantine Time for Family Yard Projects
It’s springtime, COVID-19 means your stuck at home, and you’re in dire need of safe stuff to do around the house. Here’s 6 things you can flip into family activities that are thematically based on your yard, gardening, and sustainability …
Start Composting With These 2 Options
Do-It-Yourself Pile at Home
Starting a compost pile at home is so much easier and cheaper (insert free) than you think. You actually start today with materials already laying around the house. We made a video on how …
We’ll Do It for You
Beyond composting veg/fruit/yard waste at home, our industrial site can compost a huge range of material you’re currently sending to the landfill to put off methane gas. Subscribe to our Compost Club and drop off your materials at one of our sites around town. Plus members get discounts on our soil. Check it …
Compost Your Yard Waste at Home
If you start composting at home, just keep all the winter yard waste you clean up and use it in your compost pile. This is especially useful since the City of Omaha just announced at the time of writing this (4/2/2020) that they’re limiting the amount of yard waste collected at the curb this season to 4 bags a week …
Use Mulch Sourced from Local Trees
The soil/mulch branch of our business, Soil Dynamics, has mulch sourced from local tree waste. We’re one of the few folks in town that double grinds the wood, which means it’s a better looking, more consistent product. Shop here: http://www.soil-dynamics.com/shop.
Use Compost Made From the Food Waste of Local Schools, Restaurants & the Omaha Zoo
Every day we’re picking up food waste from 20+ schools and many of your favorite restaurants. We also get yard waste from Bellevue residents and manure from Omaha Zoo animals. We process that material at the area’s only industrial composting site out in Ashland, producing the best locally made soil & compost blends around.
Not only are you getting an incredibly rich spectrum of nutrients in your soil, but you are also helping reverse the effects of climate change in the process by using our product.
How to Get Our Product
Full disclosure: our business model is set up to supply contractors & landscapers, but we do have a few ways to supply residential folks. While there are certainly more convenient & budget friendly options out there for soil & mulch, our lane is high quality product that directly reverses the effects of climate change through our community-wide composting efforts.
While we offer delivery, the order has to be 5+ cubic yards or more, and there’s a $100 minimum delivery fee, here’s 3 other options for self pickup at our Downtown Omaha Yard:
Truck: BYOB truck (you can rent one for $20 at U-Haul) and we’ll dump a load into the back.
Car Trunk: line the back of your car with a tarp & we’ll toss it in.
Paint Bucket: BYOB smaller containers, like a paint bucket, and we’ll fill ya up.
Now Start Your Victory Garden!
Check our Soil Dynamics blog for gardening tips. We also like City Sprouts’ (a composting & soil partner of ours) “5 Tips for Healthy Soil” blog.
And our CropSwap app friend Dan McCollister is one of the best (and funniest) gardening guys to take your tips from. Check his “How to Start a Garden, Step by Step” guide.