Hard Core Compost
Composting with us means that your kitchen scraps are transformed into nutrient rich compost which is used in local gardens, completing the local soil-to-food cycle. Worker owned and operated in Santa Cruz, California.
Why Hard Core?
When you give your organics to Hard Core Compost, you draw a direct line between your kitchen and healthy soil for local gardens. We work in cooperation with bacteria, fungi, worms, and arthropods to build this soil that allows our community to continue to grow nutritious food for us to bring to our kitchens and feed our families with, closing the loop of reciprocity with the plants and soil that feed us.
And we clean your bucket each week!
Sign up for weekly pickups from Hard Core now and get a free gallon of finished compost every month!
How it works
We collect about 2,000 lbs of material via bicycle every week and process it manually over a 4- month cycle. Once the finished compost has matured it is ready to be returned to customers for their home gardens or to local garden projects.
Our process is old-school. We create compost with manual labor and without added chemicals or fertilizers. All of our material comes from Santa Cruz County and all of our finished soil goes back into our local community.
Services and Pricing Options
Weekly Curbside Pick Up
- We deliver a 5-gallon bucket to your door.
- You fill it with food scraps for weekly curbside pickup by one of our riders.
- We haul your scraps to one of our nearby composting sites where our aerobic piles decompose your waste into tilthy black gold!
- 1 gallon of finished compost is returned to you monthly, or donated to local garden and land projects.
pay one month at a time:
$35/month
pay three months at a time:
$33.33/mo, $100 total
pay six months at a time:
$32.50/month, $195 total
pay one year at a time:
$29.16/month, $350 total
Where do we Operate?
Our collective is based in Santa Cruz, California. We collect food scraps from the West Side to Capitola. Here is a map of our current service area. If you are outside these boundaries, please contact us to let us know you are interested in being included in future expansions.
Other Services
Weekly Drop off
- We give you a code to our on-site drop off bin on the west side.
- You drop off your food scraps weekly in that bin.
- We turn your food scraps into compost in our aerobic piles!
drop-off:
$12/month
Special Events
- We provide organics waste diversion for weddings, private events, dinners, galas, catering, celebrations…
- We are happy to customize our services to meet your event needs
Compost Sales
- Our Compost is available for purchase when you need it!
- Ask us about our member discount!
Education
- Please reach out to coordinate a field trip, tour, talk or workshop!
Get in Touch
Hard Core Compost
703 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
contact@compost.bike
(831) 295-8294