How You Can Donate Soil to Local Food Gardens
We made a big announcement in conjunction with UNO’s Campus Sustainability Month and Food Day Omaha seen in the video below. Here’s the recap …
We now know that growing local food, without the use of tilling or chemicals, is one of the best things we can do to fix climate change and correct food system inequalities.
The Kiss The Ground film on Netflix makes this point wonderfully. And the pandemic has also urgently reinforced the point that people need access to clean, nutritious local food. Especially those in food deserts. So as a way to support local community food gardens …
Our Compost Club subscription benefits are now giving members the option to donate their earned soil to these gardens.
Here’s how it works:
Join Compost Club to keep your residential compostables out of the landfill.
The Monthly Clubber membership earns 432 cubic inches of soil every month. The Annual Clubber membership earns 3 cubic feet right away, and every year after.
Earned soil is redeemable anytime for personal use.
Clubbers also get 20% off all our soil or mulch products, anytime, all year round.
But if members don’t want the soil, they can donate it to a participating food-garden equipped school, church, or non-profit during a pre-planting season give-a-thon. More details to come on that.
How-To Contextualize This:
When Compost Club launched in 2018, it connected the Greater Omaha Area families to the industrial composting process for the first time in history. It was a game changer because for materials like meat, dairy and the increasing amount of compostable packaging, the residential sector had no other choice than to send this stuff to the landfill.
As a result, Compost Club set the stage for area family’s to get closer to a Zero Waste lifestyle.
But with this next chapter, Compost Club will again be a game changing agent as it uses the collective resources of its members to promote the local food movement, reverse food system inequalities and support climate change solutions.
organizations eligible to receive soil:
Schools, churches and non-profit entities that are growing food gardens without the use of tilling or chemicals and that are partnered with Hillside Solutions to divert their compostables from the landfill are eligible. By doing this, we’re creating a symbiotic, interdependent model aligned with the circular economy.
If you’re apart of an organization that would like to be on our give-a-thon list, contact us.
Next Steps:
In the meantime, all you need to do is join Compost Club. We’re taking some time to reach out to participating organizations to figure out needs and logistics of how our pre-planting season give-a-thon will go. So stay tuned!