Certified organic living soil, made by one family on one patch of South Carolina dirt.
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Blackville, South Carolina · Family farm since 1923
Great gardens start with living dirt.
We take what the region throws away and compost it slow, hot and hand-turned until it comes out carrying 1,589 speciesof soil life. Certified organic. Peat-free. Made by one family on one patch of dirt.
Our yard · Blackville, SC
16M
pounds upcycled in 2026
kept out of the landfill
1,589
microbial species
independently DNA sequenced
236
stocking dealers
across four states
100%
peat-free
no bogs, ever
Who you are buying from
The truck that brings it is the one he drives.
Fourth and fifth generation on the same Barnwell County ground, composting on it since 2006. When a load goes out, it goes out on that flatbed, off this yard.
Our story →The same beds, 41 days apart
Nothing changed except the soil.
Before
AfterPlanted 22 April, photographed again on 2 June — forty-one days. The same two beds, the same camera position, and the dates were written on the photographs when they were taken. We did not stage it and we did not shoot it.
See what growers are doing →On television
A Journey Through the Making of All-Natural Compost & Potting Soil
South Carolina ETV · plays on YouTube
On television
South Carolina ETV came and stood in the steam.
Public television walked the yard with us — the windrows, the turner, the screening, and why the middle of a pile runs hot enough to finish the job. It is the clearest look at how this is actually made, and we did not shoot it ourselves.
From the yard
This is the whole operation.
Photographs of the yard, the windrows, the product and our dealers are our own — see credits.
What we make
Two bags. Both of them alive.
1 cu ft · 50 lb
Certified Organic
Chicken Manure Compost
1,589 species of soil life. One bag.
A finished, fully cured chicken manure compost with an independently DNA-sequenced microbial community — 1,589 distinct species. Certified organic through Clemson University, built on the same Barnwell County ground since 2006, out of waste that was headed for a landfill.
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1.25 cu ft · 45 lb
Certified Organic
Bloomin' EZ Potting Soil
Peat-free, and proud of it.
A 100% peat-free raised-bed and container mix: 50% aged pine bark, 40% of our own living compost, 10% horticultural perlite. It drinks water instead of repelling it, and it will not shrink away from the sides of the pot in August.
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Proof, not adjectives
Everyone says “premium soil.” We sent ours to a DNA lab and published the report.
89%
Low-oxygen function
The biology keeps working in the wet, packed pockets where most soil life stalls.
89%
Denitrification
Completes the nitrogen cycle instead of letting it stall — a sign of a mature, balanced community.
89%
Carbon fixation
Builds stable organic matter, so the ground holds together and holds water for years, not weeks.
Landfill diverted, garden approved
Yesterday’s garbage. This year’s tomatoes.
In 2026 we’ll pull 16 million pounds — eight thousand tons — of regional agricultural, food and wood waste out of the landfill queue and turn it into soil. Long windrows, turned five times in the first two weeks, run to 135°F on their own, screened at ⅜ inch when finished.
No peat. No bog stripped in Canada to fill a bag in South Carolina.
Walk the windrows →Three ways to get it
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