West Marin Compost
The West Marin Compost (WMC) project is a community-driven solution that benefits the environment, the agricultural community, the County and the local community. WMC takes in yard debris and various manures to create clean, effective, economical soil amendments. Biochar enhances the product line providing more sustainable, renewable resources to create healthy soils and carbon farming tools.
Location: 5575 Nicasio Valley Rd., Nicasio, CA 94946 · Hours: Open Monday thru Saturday, 7:00 am – 3:30 pm · Phone: 415 662-9849 · www.westmarincompost.org
Compost steaming on a cold morning in Marin
West Marin Compost is more than just a great compost yard
West Marin Compost Project (WMC) started in 2013 driven by the desire of local community to create local solutions to organic materials management. Since then WMC has been producing compost and mulches that meet the needs of the agricultural and landscape industry as well as the homeowner. They have also played a supportive role in providing compost to the Marin Carbon Project, now the California Carbon Project.
WMC is also a research site where Sintana Vergara of Whendee Silver's lab at UC Berkeley is studying emissions from the composting process.
Biochar is a new innovative product now carried by WMC. It improves soils in a sustainable, lasting way. Carbon is taken from the atmosphere, locking it into the earth for hundreds of years, thereby reducing greenhouse gases.
Will Bakx, standing on rice hulls and surrounded by many different ingredients he likes to use for good compost
