Offerings
Salt Spring Soil
Soil is the foundation for thriving plants, healthy people, and a flourishing future.
We make vermicompost, biochar, compost tea, and live worms, to build healthy, living soil for growers and gardeners across Salt Spring Island. For more information and to order visit our website.
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” — Wendell Berry
Our Offerings
Vermicompost
Rich, dark worm castings from red wigglers in our continuous flow-through system. Extraordinarily concentrated — full of plant-available nutrients, beneficial microbes, and natural growth hormones — so a handful in a planting hole or seed mix goes a long way.
Compost Tea
A living liquid inoculant brewed fresh on demand by aerating compost or vermicompost with molasses and kelp. Used as a soil drench or foliar spray to rapidly reintroduce billions of beneficial bacteria and fungi and jumpstart depleted soil.
Biochar
Stable carbon made by pyrolysing wood from the land, then charged with compost so it’s ready to work immediately. It acts as a long-lasting habitat and sponge in the soil, holding water and nutrients, sheltering microbes, and sequestering carbon for hundreds of years.
Live Worms
Healthy, active red wigglers (Eisenia fetida) from our vermicompost system, ready to start a worm farm or add biology to compost piles and garden beds.
Salt Spring Soil
We make vermicompost, biochar, compost tea, and live worms, to build healthy, living soil for growers and gardeners across Salt Spring Island.
For more information and to order visit our website.