SOS Annual and Perennial Organic Worm Compost

Benefits of SOS Annual and Perennial

• Locally made in downtown Toronto
• Natural, organic and ecologically sound
  
• Made from recycled organic waste (mixed animal manures, sawdust, straw and hay)
• Double composted (thermophilic and worm)
• Cured for 6 months
• Easy to apply and incorporate into your lawn and garden
• Odour free
  

How to Use SOS Annual and Perennial

• You mix it with your potting soil in house plants, or in the garden beds
• You can sprinkle our finely sifted A grade over top of lawn and rake it in
• Compost is best applied in fall. Next best time is spring.
• It’s also good to mix and handful in with transplants, or mix a line of it with garden soil when seeding annual vegetables, flowers or herbs
• Compost can be applied once per year.

How we make SOS Annual

• Mixed animal manure, sawdust, straw and hay are mixed into thermophilic composting bins at Riverdale Farm, Toronto.
• Piles are watered, maintained and monitored for 2-3 months to ensure even breakdown, high initial temperatures, etc
• Partially composted waste is transferred to our worm composting facility where waste is further composted by two kinds of worms.
• Finished compost is sifted then cured for 6 months.
• It is then sifted one final time before being sold and or used as part of our Organic Fertilization Programs.

Compost as a Fertilizer-Fungicide and Soil Conditioner

• All natural
• Builds up soil fertility, organic matter, and micro-organisms in soil
• Allows plants to take up nutrients as and when they need them. (Selective Nutrient Cycling).

Benefits of Composting for Waste Management

• Less carbon miles
• More accountability, responsibility and creativity due to knowledge and experience in nutrient cycling
• Promotes a local economy
• Promotes self- sufficiency and local food production

Benefits of Worm Composting

• Vermi or worm composting creates two finished products: compost and more worms
• Worm composting generally creates a better finished product
• Can be used indoors
• Is a quicker process than outdoor composting
• Is a great way to get kids involved in the process

Recycling and Re-Using

• Sound resource management is the key to our survival and prosperity in the future
• People should be held accountable for the waste they produce
• Reducing-Recycling-Reusing…Put this in practice by buying and making compost

Advantages of a Local Economy

• Grassroots solutions often best represent the true situation at hand
• Creating and trading products and services locally establishes closed loop sustainable energy systems
• Builds community that care about what they buy and use

Pricing

• $35/ 20 litres or 40 lbs

Success Stories

• Worm compost brings the green back to the grass. 12 Appleton Ave.