Learn About our New Facility!

After many months of planning and weeks of trucking compost from Burlington, we are happily settled at our new facility on Redmond Road in Williston.  We opened for business on July 1st, 2011 and began taking in material on July 12th.  More recently, we changed our name to Green Mountain Compost!

Casella dumping food scraps

Due to the big move, it had been several months since we’d been able to make new compost.  When those first few loads of horse manure and food scraps rolled in, our head honcho compost-maker Norman Gordon was all smiles.  And there’s more than that to smile about here at Green Mountain Compost.  Our new state of the art facility allows us to make compost faster and more efficiently than ever, which means a smaller ecological footprint and even better products for our customers.

Brand new facility

Our new facility features a large building with rows of covered bays on an expansive concrete pad. Liquid runoff from the process is captured and reused in the process.  Most of the bays have slotted floors that allow air to be blown up into the piles of compost.  This “static aerated” system allows for oxygen to penetrate the piles more effectively than with our former “turned windrow” method.   The result is a faster process, drier compost, and much less diesel fuel used.  Yes!

 After aeration, the piles are incorporated into larger piles for curing through maturity.  Because this new process produces drier finished material than at our old facility, we are able to screen using a new 3/8-inch screen, which means a finer texture than with the previous 1/2-inch screen.

Aerated compost-making bay

With covered bays, a concrete pad, an aerated system and finer screening, this new facility will allow us to make compost more efficiently and more effectively.  Our winning compost recipe hasn’t changed, but this new technology means higher quality finished products.  We think our customers will smile on that.