Capturing Carbon
Building Health
Big Lake Organics brings composting full circle in Northern Wisconsin. From residential and commercial food waste collection to garden-ready compost delivery, Big Lake Organics is dedicated to diverting organic material from the conventional waste stream, capturing the carbon it contains and putting it back into healthy productive soils. Healthy soil, nutritious food, clean water, and reduced landfill emissions are what we bring to our community.
In the last year Big Lake Organics
diverted 386,000 pounds of food waste
created 209,000 pounds of compost
avoided 263,252 pounds of CO2 being released
Products & Services
Residential
Subscriptions
Big Lake Organics offers residential composting subscriptions. Join now and stop contributing to harmful GHG emissions Learn more here.
Commercial Waste Collections
We offer Clean Waste Service for restaurants, schools, hospitals, and other businesses that generate organic waste. Our facility is capable of processing compostable packaging as well as conventional food waste. Learn more here.
Garden-Ready
Compost Products
Garden-ready compost is now available! Buy our premium Grade A compost bagged or find out about getting a bulk delivery. Shop now!
About Us
We believe in soil.
We believe in soil. And you should too. Healthy soil has the capacity to capture and sequester carbon, turning that carbon back into healthy sustainable food instead of greenhouse gases. Compost production, and its application to build healthy soil has the power to change the world. Learn more about how Big Lake Organics got its start here.
Find out more
Our staff has been working in the field of soil health for a long time, but Big Lake Organics is brand new. So bear with us as we grow. Check back soon for more information about our products and services. Or shoot us a specific question using this form:
SOIL
PETRICHOR
pe·tri·chor | \ ˈpe-trə-ˌkȯr
(noun) a distinctive, earthy, usually pleasant odor that is associated with rainfall especially when following a warm, dry period and that arises from a combination of volatile plant oils and geosmin released from the soil into the air and by ozone carried by downdrafts