CompostGal: Consulting, Landscaping & Education

CompostGal: Consulting, Landscaping & Education "Connecting people to the soil and all that it provides"

���Sustainable landscape classes on: Growing Edibles, Composting, Worm Composting, Pest Control, Building Healthy Soil, Native Plants, Gardening on a Budget, Gardening Maintenance, Food as Medicine & Drought-tolerant Gardening. ���

�Providing on-site composting consultation and management for businesses, organizations , farms/urban farms/community gardens and homeowners.

�Gardening consultations (edible/native/drought tolerant)

�Focus on reuse & budget friendly in the garden

It's National Hugging Day!! Had to pull this pic out of the archives! 2006?🤔 FYI I've hugged many a tree since this ph...
01/22/2026

It's National Hugging Day!! Had to pull this pic out of the archives! 2006?🤔 FYI I've hugged many a tree since this photo was taken. Why a tree?

Trees do so much for us! Oxygen for us, purify the air, tempers hot climates, stabilize soils and even a dead tree is home to fungi, microorganisms, worms and other invertebrates.

Yes!!! If you have the space in your landscape it’s a must have. Create habitat in your own spaces. 🪱🕷️🦎
01/19/2026

Yes!!! If you have the space in your landscape it’s a must have. Create habitat in your own spaces.

🪱🕷️🦎

Bare root tree season is upon us! Great opportunity to add another perennial to your landscape!🍑🍒🍎🍇🥝
01/09/2026

Bare root tree season is upon us! Great opportunity to add another perennial to your landscape!

🍑🍒🍎🍇🥝

Well I just took out my frustrations on some weeds at Acta Non Verba West Oakland Farm park!!! 3 hours of weeding did th...
01/09/2026

Well I just took out my frustrations on some weeds at Acta Non Verba West Oakland Farm park!!! 3 hours of weeding did the trick!

Thanks to Sarah and Esmee for hosting me today!

Hey Martinez!!! Free compost!
12/11/2025

Hey Martinez!!! Free compost!

Free Compost Available! This free compost is made from organic materials collected from your green curbside receptacles, and is available to pick up next to the Yacht Club parking lot at 111 Tarantino Drive in the Martinez Marina. The compost is available first-come, first-served, and will not be staffed. To pick up compost, please bring your own shovels, containers, and safety gear to load the materials yourself. Feed your soil now for a bountiful spring!

11/17/2025

Let’s keep the momentum going. If you’ve volunteered or benefited from Giltract, send your email today! This will help Albany school kids by giving them funding for field trips!

Layout for your Email

citycouncil@albanyca.org

Include:

-your name
- connection to farm (volunteer, Ect)
-that you’re writing in support of Gill Tract receiving City funding at the meeting this Monday 11/17
-Why you think more Albany school kids should get to come to the farm
-thank you

citycouncil@albanyca.org

Take advantage of these winter rains to help establish those CA Natives!!!
11/17/2025

Take advantage of these winter rains to help establish those CA Natives!!!

Grow.Enjoy.Share.🌱

Address

Martinez, CA
94553

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

(925) 922-3504

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My business story

I love getting dirty. Dirt, compost, flour, jam residue, smashed fruit…. Making things, growing things makes me happy. It relaxes me and I enjoy the fruits of my labor for months after. My mission: is to reconnect people with the soil and all that it provides. I want to get people out of their houses and into their yards. We need to slow down, unplug and remember what it was like when we still made things with our hands and for ourselves. Both of my grandparents always had a summer garden, my grandpa lived for tomatoes (I guess that’s where I got it from) and my grandma…well let’s just say there was a year when she planted five zucchini plants and people ran when they saw her coming!! Roughly 30-50% of the vegetables we eat at home come from our tiny backyard garden. I am an Alameda County Master Composter, avid edible gardener, Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Professional and have been happily teaching sustainable gardening classes since 2007. It gives me great joy to pass along the love of gardening to my friends, family and friends-I-have-not-met-yet. Join me!! I’ll be waiting in the garden…. Peace, love and compost Lori