2025 Participating Organizations
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With your help, our goal is to strengthen Omaha’s circular food system. Here’s how …
To participate, join Compost Club. It’s our residential subscription program giving you access to compost drop-off sites all over Omaha. When you sign-up, we give you “soil credits” that you can use for personal use or donate during the Compost Club Gives campaign every March.
Who you can donate to: we have over a dozen schools, churches, and non-profits that compost with us, host a Compost Club drop-off site (which you can use), and grow organic food used to feed our community.
These organizations need local compost to continue growing, and you can use your soil credits to donate to them.
The benefit: By doing so, you’ll be completing the loop of our local food system. You’ll help these gardens fight climate change by using local compost (instead of poisonous fertilizer) and making local organic foods more accessible.
Plus, you’ll get access to our composting program year-round, along with 20% off local mulch, soil, and finished compost whenever you want it.
And as a bonus this year, all new and old Compost Clubbers get a FREE yard of mulch this season when you donate.
To get started, sign-up here.
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Films like Kiss The Ground make the urgent point 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.
So to respond, we’re leading a donation campaign that will use the power of our Compost Club members to crowd-source nutrient-dense soil to local food gardens, thus promoting food security in a pandemic & strengthening Omaha’s circular food system.
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Organizations eligible to receive free soil:
Non-profits, schools, or churches that use Hillside Solution’s composting pickup service and is a Compost Club sponsor/host site
Has a food garden with minimal tilling and no use of chemicals
Will help us spread the word on your social media, newsletter, and/or blog
If your organization would like to participate, contact us to get started.
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Become a Compost Clubber! Join now with a monthly or annual membership. You’ll automatically receive 3 cubic feet of soil credits to donate. Plus enjoy year-round soil & mulch discounts alongside access to 60+ compost drop-off sites in the Greater Omaha area.
Existing Clubbers get 3-cubic feet of soil, compost, or mulch you can either claim for your personal use or donate to one of the participating gardens.
PLUS anyone that donates get a FREE yard of mulch from Soil Dynamics.
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March 3rd - 10th, 2025, log in to the Clubbers-Only Map & choose your garden from the list of participating organizations.
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You’ll be notified after donations are done. Since you’re a composting partner with us, you also get 20% off any of our compost, soil, or mulch products.
You can browse your options here and fill out the order form on the page.
You can pick up your products during normal Soil Dynamics business hours from our downtown yard located here. If you need delivery, the shop page FAQ and order form lists a delivery price.
Additionally, we’ll provide you with a yard sign to put in or near the garden that will identify where the soil came from, and we ask that you post a photo on social of the soil in the garden bed.
Thanks so much for participating!
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Making a few social media posts and including it in your newsletter can go a long way to informing your audience about what Compost Club is about and how they can donate their soil credits to your organization.
To help, we’ve compiled images and sample marketing you can use. All found here.
Rooted in Results…
“Thanks to Compost Club Gives, we’ve been able to use the compost to fuel our Rooftop Garden and sidewalk gardens. In addition, we have been able to support and partner with some community-based garden and agriculture projects as well, including Nebraska Black Doula Collective, Omaha Sunflower Cooperative, Manifest Acres, and Skatefest/Walnut Hill Commons, with compost and garden beds.”
“ In 2024, fueled with Soil Dynamics’ rich compost, the City Sprouts Urban Farm produced over 15,740 pounds of fresh produce to feed the community and, in turn, build a more resilient and sustainable local food system. ”
“At our food hub, we distribute food to community organizations, which consists of both purchased and rescued food. We compost as much as we can of the food that is not of good enough quality to be distributed. We also have 10 raised garden beds at this location, and all of the produce grown either gets distributed, used in culinary classes, or used in our commercial kitchen. The beds are filled with soil from Soil Dynamics and Compost Club Gives, so it’s a true circular system! ”
2024 Results
Residential clubbers and local composting businesses donated 387 cubic feet of compost to local non-profit gardens during the 2024 campaign. City Sprouts, Union, No More Empty Pots, and others are using the donated compost to grow organic food gardens and then will use that food to feed our community. This will help folks who often have a hard time getting access to clean, organic, and local food. And bonus: all of the garden waste will also be composted, which will go to next year’s crops. This is a big win for Omaha’s circular food movement! Thank you all for participating.
The Gives campaign will pick back up in the spring of 2025. If you’d like to participate, can still become a Compost Clubber in the meantime. Just click on the link below.