In 2023, we started a partnership with Commerce Elementary Garden and through compost donation we support their fantastic efforts to educate kids on soil health, gardening, and growing and eating the rainbow.

In 2022, we hosted a site tour for students that wanted to learn what happens to all the food waste once it’s collected from school. Educated them on our composting method, feedstocks, finished compost properties and use.

Every year, we participate in the Great Michigan Compost Tour (organized by the Michigan Recycling Coalition) and teach about our site operations, benefits of compost for the State, the environment and the community and share our efforts to increase organics diversion and compost use in Michigan.

In 2023, Spurt hosted the Michigan Organics Council Strategic Planning Session to define priorities to bring together organic generators, processors, and end users to network, share best practices and promote diversion of organics and compost application.

As part of our commitment to growing the compost industry in Michigan, we provide site tours at our 14-acre facility in Wixom. We invite students, academic institutions, industry leaders and sustainability professionals who are interested in learning about composting, food waste recycling, soil health, plant resilience, and climate change.

If you are interested in learning about how your yard waste and food waste are transformed into a valuable soil amendment that has a variety of benefits or want to explore the many ways you and your business can be more sustainable, contact us.

We believe in increasing local resilience, building strong soils, and protecting the environment that we all share.

As part of our efforts to improve the quality of life of Michiganders, in 2020 we started a compost donation program with Yad Ezra, an organization in Berkley that provides free, healthy food to insecure families living in SE Michigan.

Every year we donate some of our STA Certified Compost to Giving Gardens, a place for people to learn about gardening, farming, food sustainability and hunger issues. It is rewarding to see that our actions influence the lives of those in need.

In Michigan, over 1.3 million people are struggling with hunger and, of them, over 300 thousand are children. In 2020, COVID-19 impacted financially many families across the State, and we feel so lucky be a part of this initiative where Michiganders help each other.

In 2020 we had the opportunity to start an amazing collaboration with Farm City Detroit, an organization that promotes positive community engagement embracing the importance of allocating resources for self-sufficiency and increasing access to fresh and healthy food to the neighborhood.

We donate STA Certified Compost and Spurt Dirt to the farm every spring and fall, and all harvests are for donation to those in need.

When we dream about the future of Spurt, we always see opportunities like this one, where we feel that all the hard work is worth it and is definitely changing the lives of Michiganders.

Spurt is a proud sponsor of Cadillac Urban Gardens from Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision (SDVE). We provide free compost for this 1-acre urban garden in Mexicantown, Detroit. This initiative helps create a system of equitable access and availability of culturally relevant food across SW Detroit.

This urban garden is a space for community members to come together to grow fresh fruits and vegetables, promote food sovereignty, and beautify their neighborhood through place-based intergenerational learning. In turn, the garden provides food security for residents with little access to fresh produce and has become a model for sustainable gardening practices.

In today’s world, there are numerous needs, and it’s gratifying for us to have the opportunity to improve society through compost donation to West Detroit Farm, where all the food harvested is donated to residents in needs.

As many Detroit residents struggle with access to fresh fruits and vegetables and continue to face food insecurity, this community garden helps families through access to nutrient-dense food.