Composting The Atlantis Casino in Reno, Nevada

Here is a great article from the Reno Gazette Journal about Full Circle Compost receiving all the organic waste from the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in Reno.   The weekly pre-consumer food waste is dropped off at the Full Circle Compost facility in Carson City. These materials go through an intensive 10-week aerobic composting process [...]

Posted on 21 February 2012 | 1:31 pm

Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Food Waste Composting

Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Food Waste Composting

Here is recent article that was in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly about food waste composting in Nevada and Full Circle Compost's efforts to push this endeavour. Take a look and hope this opens some eyes and enlightens some minds on the subject of organics recycling and composting in the area. Help us on our journey to get organics recycling apart of normal community activities in Northern Nevada.

We can recycle 30% of normal trash through composting if the right system is in place. These organic materials can be used to make great soils and compost that help us grow even more healthy and nutritious food for our community.

Posted on 24 January 2012 | 2:13 pm

Pinecone Celebration: Nevada’s Environmental Awards

Join Nevada EcoNet and greenUP! on Wed., Nov. 16 to celebrate the 2011 Golden Pinecone winners.  Nevada’s only exclusively environmental award ceremony, the Golden Pinecone Celebration, has honored our environmental leaders and visionaries for 24 years. Thanks to a generous sponsorship from the Peppermill, this year’s event features a plated dinner in an elegant setting at last [...]

Posted on 18 October 2011 | 5:04 pm

Autumn Harvest Festival Carson Valley

The time has come for the Autumn Harvest Festival presented by Full Circle Compost and Hungry Mother Organics in Minden, NV. The show stopper is a 50 variety tomato test of locally grown awesome heirloom tomaotes! This is your chance to partake in some great activities and help support local business and local food. There [...]

Posted on 26 September 2011 | 11:49 am

Great Basin Community Food Coop Loves Compost!

The Great Basin Community Food Coop is now a new and awesome location to get Full Circle Compost Garden Boost soil amendment in Reno Nevada. This amazing food coop has allowed Full Circle the great opportunity to join forces and sell some great local organic soil amendments at their store off California St. Great Basin Community Food Coop [...]

Posted on 9 September 2011 | 1:32 pm

Tomato Update: Siberian Tomato Glory

Here is a tomato update of our Siberian Tomato plant in our back yard. This is only one of 41 varieties of ripe tomatoes that we are going to taste test this Saturday at the Green Living Festival in Gardnerville , NV. This Siberian tomato, even though small, produce large amounts of fruit for our [...]

Posted on 8 September 2011 | 11:41 pm

South Tahoe Refuse: Recycling Lake Tahoe

Here is a short video of the operations at South Tahoe Refuse. This video shows the recycling of woody organics and green waste in beautiful South Lake Tahoe. Many of these organic materials are ground and taken to Full Circle Compost in the Carson Valley to be made into high quality compost. This is the “full [...]

Posted on 6 September 2011 | 12:06 pm

The Truckee Elementary and Full Circle Worm Project!

Truckee Elementary School and Full Circle Compost have teamed up to create vermicomposting glory for educational and environmentally sustainable purposes in Truckee, California. The story goes like this… The projected started in 2010 when Tamara Anderson contacted Full Circle Compost to talk all about worms and the proper methods of recycling organic wastes using vermicomposting. [...]

Posted on 25 August 2011 | 2:38 pm

Tomato Testing! Part 1

Alright! We have finally started to get some ripe tomatoes on our plants and its time to start taste testing! So, we actually have around 60 varieties of tomatoes this year so the taste testing will be long and yummy. On the chopping block today: Super Sweet 100′s Amish Paste Juane Flamme Guernsey Island Yellow [...]

Posted on 19 August 2011 | 3:08 pm

Earth Day Compostable Product Experiment

Full Circle Compost took in the compostable materials, including compostable items such and cups and utensils, from three different Earth Day events in Northern Nevada. Full Circle then processed these materials in a separate compost windrow to see how the materials would break down. The following video shows the end result after a 3 month [...]

Posted on 12 August 2011 | 3:24 pm