Terra Firma Nevada takes organic waste—trees, shrubs, lawn clippings, branches—and makes it into products that help your lawn and garden thrive. This method of recycling keeps thousands of pounds of waste out of our local landfills and turns it into something that improves the region’s soil, air, and water quality. That’s what we call a “win/win” for everyone.
What We Do
Terra Firma Organics is a compost company located in Las Vegas, Nevada. As one of the only permitted composted facilities in the area, we divert thousands of tons of organic waste from Las Vegas landfills every year, and turn that waste into premium compost blends that help improve the environment. Properly blended and applied compost helps to reduce water use by 50% in plant beds, gardens and other green areas.
Last year, Terra Firma saved over tons of organic waste from entering the Last Vegas landfill, and turned that material into nutrient rich compost, mulch and topsoil. We divert organic waste such as yard waste, wood waste, and paper to create a value added commodity for the local community. Our high quality products can be sourced from our merchant partners.
Today, our reach extends well beyond residential landscaping waste recycling and landscaping products. We use state-of-the-art equipment to provide products and sustainable waste solutions that play a critical role in the construction and commercial development industry including:
- Low-impact soil solutions that help with erosion control and remediation. Compost slow water flow through the soils so plants can become established properly
- High quality engineered topsoils that play a critical role in building projects throughout the region.
How We Do It
Our Technology
We invest in advanced technologies to keep our business on the cutting edge. Our systems are used by the leading organic waste recycling programs in the world, and we constantly seek out new partners and new ways to do our job better, faster and more efficiently than the rest.
Our Equipment
Terra Firma has one of the largest wood grinders in the intermountain region. This machine is utilized on large and small projects throughout Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana due to its speed and efficiency.
What is Compost?
Compost is the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic material that has been sanitized through the generation of heat and stabilized to the point that it is beneficial to plant growth. It contains plant nutrients but is typically not characterized as fertilizer.
How is compost produced?
Compost is produced through the activity of aerobic microorganisms. These microbes require oxygen, moisture and food in order to grow and multiply. When these resources are maintained at optimal levels, the natural decomposition process is greatly accelerated. Compost can be produced from many feedstocks. State and federal regulations exist to ensure that only safe and environmentally beneficial compost are marketed.
Benefits of compost:
Compost is extremely versatile and beneficial in many applications. Compost has the unique ability to improve the properties of soils and growing media structurally, nutritionally and biologically. Although many equate the benefit of compost use to lush green growth, caused by the plant-available nitrogen, the real benefits of using compost are long-term and related to the content of living-organic matter.
Benefits of Using Compost
1. Improved the soil structure, porosity and density, thus creating a better plant root environment.
2. Increases infiltration and permeability of heavy soils, thus reducing erosion and runoff.
3. Improves water holding capacity, thus reducing water loss and leaching in sandy soils.
4. Supplies a variety of macro and micronutrients.
5. May control or suppress certain soil-borne plant pathogens.
6. Supplies significant quantities of organic matter.
7. Improves cation exchange capacity (CEC) of soils and growing media, thus improving their ability to hold nutrients for plant use.
8. Supplies beneficial microorganisms to soils and growing media.
9. Improves and stabilizes soil pH.
10. Can bind and degrade specific pollutants.
Source: US Compost Council
Our Equipment
Terra Firma has one of the largest wood grinders in the intermountain region. This machine is utilized on large and small projects throughout Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana due to its speed and efficiency.