Ingredients blended to meet the nutritional needs of your crops and soils
Our compost is created from a blend of beneficial, naturally derived ingredients and provides a holistic approach to your nutrient management program. Because most of our ingredients originate from local sources, our compost effectively promotes disease and virus resistance for local agriculture. Our family-scale operation has the flexibility to tailor your compost blend to your soils’ requirements. Natural Selection Farms provides both Conventional and Certified Organic Compost. Natural Selection Farm’s organic compost meets USDA National Organic Standards (7 CFR Part 205) and Japanese Agricultural Standard (JAS) for compost.
Hop Residue…Hop Vines and leaves…source of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron; this fibrous material also facilitates aeration.Ash… provides significant iron and calcium. Iron is necessary for photosynthesis, oxidation reduction, nitrogen fixation, chromosome activity
Blood Meal…nitrogen source
Fish….hydrolysate and whole; nitrogen source
Paunch…nitrogen Source
Calcium Carbonate (Lime)…calcium source blended prior to screening and only upon request. Please note, once lime is added, the compost is no longer WSDA organically certified. Calcium is a catalysis that activates enzyme activities, which digest and break down carbohydrates in cells; aid plant with disease and parasite resistance, and improves soil porosity
Milk & Whey…Microbe food source, sodium reducer: sugar, protein (amino acid), vitamin B, enzymes; Sugar functions as insect control (most insects don’t have a pancreas are unable to digest sugar) Vitamin B and Enzymes: microbe stimulant, enzymes convert food into a form microbes and plants can utilize.
Once these ingredients have been blended by the specific receipts designed by one of our three certified compost managers, they are placed into windrows. These windrows are monitored and managed via time, temperature and moisture parameters established and mandated by the WSDA Organic Compost standards. We utilize a Scarab windrow turner to homogenize rows and a Wild Cat Turner to maintain appropriate levels of aeration and hydration throughout the process. After our ingredients have completed the composting process, we screen the product to 3/8” minus.
