Hi folks! I just want to take a moment to remind everyone that we are open during the winter, and that we have compost available for sale. Please do understand, however, that there will likely be days we will not be able to make sales – like snow days and when temperatures drop below freezing.
Freezing temperatures can in fact freeze the outer layers of our piles, making it difficult to break into (if thick enough) and/or measure properly during the loading. Please keep in mind that once the outer layers freeze, they can stay frozen for a few days even after temperatures have warmed up outside.
Rest assured, however, these frozen outer layers do not affect the quality of our compost. In fact, they help to maintain our high quality standards. Functioning as an insulator for the rest of the piles, these frozen outer layers help keep internal temperatures stable, as well as reduce water evaporation – keeping our piles warmer and properly hydrated, so that healthy microbiology can survive.
That all said, we really do encourage folks to wait until Spring to purchase compost, if at all possible. We understand that demand is high, and that you want to get your hands on our amazing compost before we sell out. But, keep in mind that, unless you are planting and growing indoors, the microbiology in the compost that we work so hard to provide you with, becomes increasingly threatened by those same temperatures that freeze the outer layers of our piles. You will most certainly still have the benefits of adding organic matter to your New Mexico soil, but you will miss out on the many other benefits of having the biology there to feed and protect your plants when you need them to.