In this feature we highlight the farmers and processors who bring Biodynamic® products to life — focusing this month on compost. Demeter’s online Biodynamic Directory is a tool for both producers and consumers.
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Photo above provided by CureSoil
CureSoil
CureSoil is one of only five Demeter Certified Biodynamic compost operations in the United States, producing biologically complete compost from our base in the heart of West Marin, CA. Our philosophy is simple: treat the soil, not the symptoms.
Founded on 25+ years of organic and biodynamic practice, CureSoil bridges rigorous soil science with Biodynamic principles. We integrate the soil food web, mineral balancing, and trained soil microscopy to build compost that restores living biology to depleted ground. Every batch is made to deliver the fungal-to-bacterial balance, diversity, and microbial vitality that the Biodynamic preparations were designed to amplify.
We work alongside growers across the region — vineyards, market farms, turf managers, and home gardeners — helping them shift from input dependence toward genuine soil health. Whether through bulk compost, extracts, or our small-format Satellite Pack for home gardens, our aim is the same: regenerate the biology that makes nutrient-dense food and resilient landscapes possible.
We’re honored to be part of the Demeter community and the growing Biodynamic movement.
To purchase compost: Biodynamic Compost | Cure Soil
ian@curesoil.com
Malibu Compost
Malibu Compost sells bagged compost and compost-based products made on their farms in Oregon and California. What started as a small project has grown to include nation-wide distribution of their products. Their compost is made from organic dairy manure, which is treated with Biodynamic preparations. Their process includes testing their products to ensure the absence of GMOs and other residues.
“We believe that in our mission statement to help the people, planet and animals of this Earth, nothing could be more important. Our goal is to have everyone using clean, healthy, safe, REAL Organic Non-GMO compost in their gardens, farms and grows to create the healthiest fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants that anyone can grow. We believe that the toxins that Big CHEM and Big AG are putting in our food and gardens have got to stop. That is our mission. That is our plan. That is our goal for a safer, healthier and happier world.”
To purchase compost: Compost | Malibu Compost
Contact: Malibu Compost
One Gun Ranch
Made on the ranch in Malibu, CA, One Gun Biodynamic Super(ior) Soil compost is made using the farms’ organic dairy cow manure and organic alfalfa, enlivened with an herbal bacteria starter. The compost takes 9 months to be ready, and is carefully turned and temperatures measured throughout the process.
One Gun Ranch has been Demeter certified for over 10 years, and in addition to producing Biodynamic compost, raises a variety of fruits and vegetables while managing the property for biodiversity and wildlife habitat.
To purchase compost: Compost – One Gun Ranch
farm@1gunranch.com
(310) 303 – 2584
SeaCoast Compost
SeaCoast Compost began as a dream to transform the waste from Oregon’s three iconic industries — fishing, dairy, and timber — into a life-giving Biodynamic soil treatment that can heal our dead, nutrient-starved soils.
Our love of Rudolf Steiner’s work continually inspires us to grow the endeavour; that more and more of the Earth may receive the enlivening effects of the compost preps.
We are also discovering through lots of good, hard work that economic life can be profitable in all realms, monetarily and soul/spiritually, through cultivating human relationships of cooperation through all the aspects of the economic process. Though the urge to look out for oneself first and foremost is alive and well in modern life, we continually discover that when you look out for the “higher human” in all exchanges, real growth happens in a mutually harmonious way.
Growing with and out of SeaCoast Compost is also a retail plant nursery, construction company, bakery and coffeeshop, and Flow-Form manufacturing. These businesses work and breathe together aiming to realize a brotherhood experience in economic life.
Purchase compost: SeaCoast Compost
info@redefiningcompost.com
541-888-6757
Wynbrandt Farms
Wynbrandt Farms is a micro-farm urban agriculture farm located in Los Angeles, CA. Owner Steven Wynbrandt produces Biodynamic® certified compost in small batches, in addition to teaching workshops and raising produce for direct-sale to the local community and to restaurants.
“It is my core belief that when compost is made as a high art, it is a profound product of alchemy that holds answers to some of the most critical issues humanity faces, from reversing climate change to restoring and elevating the health and vitality of soil, and thus, of humanity. Wynbrandt Farms is rooted in the awareness of the interconnectedness of all life on earth, and practices that restore and elevate the symbiotic, life-sustaining capacity of the living skin of the earth so that soil, plant, animal and human populations can truly thrive.” — Steven Wynbrandt
To purchase compost: Compost and Compost Tea — Wynbrandt Farms
wynbrandtfarms@gmail.com
(310) 968 – 8071
