Durango Compost Company
July 2nd, 2009
Via the Durango Telegraph, I found this story about the Durango Compost Co, which details the genesis and progress of the Durango Compost Co, founded by Jennifer Craig. This company is built around vermicomposting:
[Durango Composting Company] offers three main services: household composters and worms; public education; and commercial use and consulting. The Composting Co.’s most visible presence is at the Farmers Market, where Craig sells 35-gallon buckets of compost for $35; “compost tea,” a compost-steeped liquid used as fertilizer and to prevent plant disease; and the “Can-O-Worms” home worm composters. In addition, Craig also gives presentations at local schools and works with businesses, such as Ska Brewing and Cyprus Café, interested in worm composting.
The key to the company’s founding was the partnership with a coffee shop: “[Durango Coffee Company owner Tim Wheeler] would pay Craig to take his grounds off his hands. In exchange, he would get a cut of the profits from the final garden-ready product.”
I love to see business models around vermicomposting operations, as I believe they’re key to making the process really sustainable in the long term. I found no website for the Durango Compost Company and I was unable to find a telephone number, but the contact info for the coffee company is here.
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1. Jennifer Craig | July 14th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Hi. The Durango Compost Company website isn’t up yet. In the meantime we have set up a Durango Compost Company group on facebook.
My business number is 970-799-7614.
Thanks for your post!
Jenny
2. vermicomposting | August 16th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Here’s the facebook group if any of y’all are looking to join: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104490059027
3. divya | July 30th, 2010 at 5:00 am
Hey guys !!! vermicomposting is a noble task….
My company is the largest producer of vermicomost in India. We need a selling channel across the world…..
Do let me know if interested…
email : divya0058@gmail.com
4. vermicomposting | August 14th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Thanks Divya! How will you make money shipping compost across the world?
5. Fernando A. Seda Jr. | February 1st, 2011 at 7:56 am
My thanks to Jenny Craig of the Durango Compost Company (DCC) for all her help in building my first vermicomposting bin and hopefully starting my composting efforts.
The bin is great, beautiful (chartreuse-sage green) and built to DCC’s latest specifications. Jenny has put a lot of efforts in designing a bin that will work for a long time. Once this and future bins start supplying me enough product Finquita Mercedes Zapata (my small farm) will move into the Aquaponics phase.
It was great sharing two weeks with Jenny, she is as I put it the cutest, sweetest young lady I have met in a long time. She is focused and passionate about her worms. Wish everyone who is into worms could have the opportunity that I just experienced. Jenny is a great resource to us all.
I was fortunate to sit next to Jenny on one of the Growing Power shuttles that took us back and forth from the Youth Center at the Milwaukee Fair Grounds to Growing Power’s Home Office for workshops and 1st World Conference. Will Allen, Founder of Growing Power and folks like Jenny have given me the tools to make a difference and to move forward with my dreams of having a Sustainable, off the grid farming operation.
Wow what can I say, But that I am so excited to be part of the Good Food Revolution!!
6. vermicomposting | March 1st, 2011 at 9:27 am
Glad to know that Jenny was able to help you out!
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