DIRT Rich Composting and Pick Up Service

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Spring compost available now! Call or visit our website and make an appointment today.

Dirt Rich Compost and Food Scrap pick up provides food waste pick up for residents and businesses all around the Flathead Valley and provides local farms and gardens with a high quality compost product. We're currently loading up truck and delivering our compost in bulk by appointment Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the work week!

10/20/2026

🌱 We're hiring a part-time Food Scraps Composting Coordinator!

We're looking for an organized, thoughtful, and tech-savvy person to help keep Dirt Rich Compost running smoothly behind the scenes. This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys variety, likes solving problems, and can comfortably move between customer service, administrative work, technology, and general operations.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and walks of life to apply!

Check out the full job description and instructions on how to apply here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10L3oZm1ExoOS-YW38a1xveD3m1084f2f/view?usp=sharing

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10/16/2026

We’re excited to highlight our partner, Third Street Market —Whitefish’s oldest downtown corner grocery. And they carry our compost!

We truly appreciate the care the team at Third Street Market puts into offering locally sourced and organic food choices. It’s a-maize-ing to see how many local growers are represented on their shelves.

While we frequent Third Street for groceries, of course, it’s the people who elevate the experience from a chore to a dill-ight. They are excited, knowledgeable, kind, and always a little punny!

Head to Third Street Market and treat yourself to some goodies. Enjoy a chat with your grocer, or that person you know—it’s a small town, after all. And while you’re there, be sure to pick up some Dirt Rich Compost, too!

10/13/2026

This week, we finished our final service in Glacier National Park for the season. The estimates are in: during the 2026 season, we composted about 185,838 pounds of material — nearly 100 tons! 🌱

We served six businesses operating in and around both East and West Glacier. We’re proud to have helped these businesses turn their scraps into a resource instead of waste.

A huge thank you to the businesses, staff, and partners who made another season of composting in and around Glacier National Park possible. We’re grateful to be part of it — and already looking forward to next year!

10/02/2026

🍂 Fall is a great time to add compost to your garden! Click through for a few simple fall compost tips.

09/28/2026

Happy Autumn!

Summer's end is always bittersweet, but we're already making plans for fall planting!

Why plant in fall? Roots! Warm soil and cooler air encourage plants to establish roots now, so they're ready for growth in the spring.

What to plant? Trees, shrubs, perennials, spring-blooming bulbs, garlic, and other plants can all thrive when planted in the fall.

When to plant? Fall planting season runs from September until the ground freezes. Check each plant's ideal planting window for the best results.

Remember the soil! Adding compost to your garden beds in the fall can help improve soil for the season ahead.

What are you planting this fall? Tell us in the comments!

09/17/2026

We’re excited to highlight our partner, the Center for Native Plants —the Valley’s only retail native plant nursery. And they carry our compost!

We admire the dedication and care the Center puts into growing more than 200 species of native plants. Did you know they responsibly hand-collect seeds for the majority of the plants they grow? It takes a lot to help these plants thrive!

Of course, native plants support all living beings in this environment. What we really love is that they help us feel more connected to the place we call home.

If you haven't had a chance to experience the Center for yourself, we recommend a visit. Ambling around the nursery makes for a delightful afternoon. And while you’re there, be sure to pick up some Dirt Rich Compost, too!

09/09/2026

Alissa recently welcomed a new baby and will be taking some time away on parental leave. We're so excited for her and her growing family!

While she's away, our team will continue working hard to keep everything running smoothly and provide the same great service you expect from Dirt Rich Compost.

Please join us in sending her and her family lots of love 🩷

09/02/2026

We are excited to offer apple composting this year during September and October!

Curbside Doorstep Customers
-Simply place one extra bucket of apples alongside your regular bucket on your service day.
-Our drivers will flag the extra bucket, and we'll bill you for the additional material on the back end.
-Please only place one extra bucket per service day to ensure we have enough space for everyone's material.

Drop-Off Customers & All Others
-Purchase an Apple Compost Drop-Off through our webshop.
-Plan to drop off your apples at our site in Columbia Falls.
-Drop-offs are available Saturdays and Sundays in September and October, between 9:30–1:30 and 2:00–4:30.

Purchase a drop-off here: https://accounts.dirtrichcompost.com/shop/seasonal/

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

Happy harvesting!

08/17/2026

We love seeing where Dirt Rich compost ends up — especially when it’s growing food that comes right back to our own table.

Three P’s Farm is a small diversified vegetable and flower farm outside of Whitefish, started by our friend Florence “Flo” Parsley. Flo farms with a real focus on soil health, using regenerative practices like minimal soil disturbance, keeping the soil covered, and adding compost and amendments based on annual soil testing.

We’re lucky enough to be Three P’s CSA members ourselves, so every week we get to see (and eat!) some of what all that good soil is producing.

There’s something pretty satisfying about this little local loop: our community’s food scraps become compost → that compost helps build local soil → local farmers grow beautiful food → that food ends up back on tables in our community.

And on a personal note, Flo is just awesome. We love seeing a young woman building a farm of her own here in the Flathead and are proud that Dirt Rich gets to play a small part in what she’s growing.

If you haven’t checked out Three P’s Farm yet, you can find Flo at the Downtown Whitefish Farmers Market, through her CSA, and around the valley.

Good soil. Local food. Local farms. ♻️🌱🥕

08/03/2026

**4.89 tons composted.**

That's how much food waste and certified compostable service ware was collected at **Under the Big Sky Festival** this year and kept out of the landfill.

Making that happen took a team of **eight women** working through long, hot days to sort material by hand:

, , , Krista, Serena, Lucy, and Lori.

Thank you for putting in the work.

Thanks also to the food vendors for complying with the festival's certified third-party compostable ware requirements. That commitment is what makes composting at this scale possible.

Most of all, thank you to the and for continuing to prioritize local composting and recycling. Choosing diversion over disposal takes planning, coordination, and resources, and we're grateful they continue to make that investment each year.

This was one of two major festivals we partnered with this summer. Between Under the Big Sky and , more than **6 tons** of organic material was diverted from the landfill and returned to local soils.

Every event that chooses composting helps build a more resilient local food system, one load at a time. 🌱

Address

325 4th Street WN
Columbia Falls, MT
59912

Telephone

(406) 212-7535

Website

http://dirtrichcompost.com/

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