Rocky Top Resources

What Rocky Top Resources does

Rocky Top Resources Inc. is a privately held, family-owned landscaping supply and yard waste recycling company founded in 1991 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, by Fred Martin (formerly a Pennsylvania quarry owner). The company is currently led by second-generation owner Jared Martin and operates from a single facility at 1755 E Las Vegas St in Colorado Springs, serving the Pikes Peak region. Its core business involves processing locally sourced clean wood waste into premium mulch, soils, composts, and soil amendments, alongside sourcing and distributing decorative rocks, flagstone, road bases, sands, and other bulk landscaping materials.

The company sells nine core product categories (mulch, decorative rocks, road bases and structural fill, breezes, soils, composts, flagstone/moss rock/siloam, soil amendments, and sands) priced per cubic yard or per pound, plus three service lines: regional delivery (starting at $85 per delivery), yard waste recycling (with a $10 Saturday special for non-commercial customers), and mobile grinding for on-site land clearing for commercial and municipal projects. The underlying process technology centers on mechanical wood-waste recycling and material processing using non-toxic biodegradable colorants for mulch dyeing, with Premium Topsoil and Tri-Mix products certified CSU-approved for water establishment permits.

Rocky Top operates a direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business model, with customers either self-pickup at the Colorado Springs yard or placing delivery orders across the Pikes Peak region. The customer base spans three primary horizontal segments: residential homeowners, commercial businesses, and municipalities/government. The company markets primarily through its website, blog content, and email newsletter (offering a 5% residential discount), and holds BBB accreditation. It is not externally funded, has no parent company or subsidiaries, and reports no app, API, or AI/ML technology capabilities.

Name

Rocky Top Resources

Legal name

Rocky Top Resources Inc.

Website

https://rockytopresources.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rocky Top Resources is a family-owned landscaping supply and yard waste recycling facility in Colorado Springs that sells bulk mulch, soils, rocks, and related materials to residential, commercial, and municipal customers across the Pikes Peak region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscaping Materials Supply

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers (444)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Retail-Lumber & Other Building Materials Dealers (5211)

akta.pro primary industry

Yard Waste, Land Clearing & Green Waste Processing (Mulch/Compost Feedstock) (BPALAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Eco-Friendly Disposal, Recycling & Donation Hauling (HSAIAOAJ), Concrete, Asphalt & Masonry Recycling (Crushing & Aggregate Production) (EUAIAHAD)

Keywords

• Landscaping materials supply
• Yard waste recycling
• Bulk mulch production
• Decorative rock quarry
• Mobile grinding services

Headquarters

HQ city

Colorado Springs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Product Sales: Sale of landscaping materials including mulch, soil, rock, compost, sand, and flagstone sold by cubic yard or pound
2. Delivery Services: Flexible delivery fleet across Pikes Peak region with various truck sizes, starting at $85 per delivery plus material cost
3. Yard Waste Recycling: Accepts yard waste for recycling at cubic yard charges; Saturday rate of $10 per load for non-commercial customers
4. Mobile Grinding Services: On-site mobile grinding for large-scale land clearing and development projects, primarily for commercial and government municipalities

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Rocky Top Resources manufactures and distributes bulk landscaping materials—including mulch, decorative rock, soils, composts, road bases, sands, flagstone, and soil amendments—sold by the cubic yard or pound. It also operates a yard waste recycling program that transforms clean local wood waste into mulch and soil amendments using non-toxic colorants, and offers paid delivery and on-site mobile grinding services for residential, commercial, and municipal customers across the Pikes Peak region.

Product overview

Rocky Top Resources is a landscaping supply and yard waste recycling facility offering a comprehensive portfolio of bulk landscaping materials. The product lineup includes nine core product categories: Mulch (premium colored and natural mulches), Decorative Rocks (quarry-sourced in multiple varieties and sizes), Road Bases and Structural Fill (Class 6 variants), Breezes (decorative granite breeze products), Soils (topsoil and specialty mixes including Tri-Mix and Premium Topsoil), Composts (Class 1 and blended composts), Flagstone/Moss Rock/Siloam (natural stone sold by the pound), Soil Amendments (100% organic matter), and Sands (washed concrete sand). These materials are sold by cubic yard or pound, with products manufactured in-house from recycled wood waste. Services include Delivery across the Pikes Peak region, Yard Waste Recycling with Saturday reduced rates, and Mobile Grinding for large-scale land clearing projects. The company serves residential, commercial, and municipal customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mulch Premium mulch manufactured from recycled clean wood waste with non-toxic, biodegradable colorants, available in multiple colors and textures including specialty IPEMA-certified playground variants, sold by the cubic yard to residential, commercial, and municipal buyers.
• Decorative Rocks Quarry-sourced decorative rocks offered in multiple varieties (Canyon Granite, River Rock Gray, Black Champagne, Black Obsidian, Charcoal Mountain, Denver Granite, Indian Sunset, Mountain White, Pea Gravel, etc.) and size gradations for landscaping projects.
• Road Bases and Structural Fill Class 6 Road Base in quarried and crushed concrete (3/4 inch minus) variants, plus structural fill for construction and landscaping projects.
• Breezes Decorative granite-based breeze products (Granite Breeze, Gray Breeze, Peppermint Breeze, Western Breeze) offered in various sizes and colors for landscaping applications.
• Soils Soil products including Class A Screened Topsoil, Premium Topsoil (70% organic matter), and Tri-Mix (50% organic matter); Premium Topsoil and Tri-Mix are CSU-approved for water establishment permits.
• Composts Compost products including Class 1 Compost, Compost and Humus (50/50 blend), and Composted Cow for soil enrichment and landscaping applications.
• Flagstone / Moss Rock / Siloam Natural stone products including Flagstone (Buff, Oxford Blue, Oxford Rust, Red, Sebastian, Sockeye, Stampede varieties), Moss Rock (boulders and wall), and Siloam Stone (steps/stairs and veneer), sold by the pound.
• Soil Amendments Topsoil Amendment 100% Organic Matter for soil improvement and landscape preparation.
• Sands Washed Concrete Sand for construction, landscaping, and utility applications.
• Delivery Services Professional delivery services across the Pikes Peak region using a flexible fleet of various truck sizes, with delivery starting at $85 per delivery plus material cost and Moss Rock/Boulder Delivery at $150/hr with a 2-hour minimum.
• Yard Waste Recycling Eco-conscious yard waste recycling program accepting a wide range of organic and inert materials (branches, brush, junipers, sod, grass, untreated fencing, pine needles, leaves, logs, topsoil, fill dirt, rock up to 8 inches, old mulch, pallets, lumber cut-offs, Christmas trees), with a Saturday special of $10 per load for non-commercial customers; outputs feed mulch, soil amendments, and fresh topsoil production.
• Mobile Grinding On-site mobile grinding and land clearing service for commercial and government municipalities, processing vast quantities of material on-site with high throughput for large-scale land clearing and development projects.

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Care and Share Food Bank for Southern ColoradocoreGTM or Marketing PartnerRocky Top Resources has partnered with Care and Share Food Bank through various giving events and donation opportunities. They have helped facilitate over 3.2 million pounds of food for Care and Share to distribute to the needy in Southern Colorado. Rocky Top accepts optional donations during Saturday recycling events.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Direct peers

• Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply: Major US distributor of irrigation, landscape, and related products serving both residential and commercial customers with comparable bulk-material categories. Similar business model of supplying landscapers and homeowners with mulches, soils, stone, and hardscape materials across multiple regional service areas.
• SiteOne Landscape Supply: Largest US distributor of lawn, landscape, and irrigation supplies with a national retail footprint and similar product breadth (mulch, soils, stone, hardscape). Closest publicly-traded analog to Rocky Top's retail and distribution model, though operating at vastly larger scale and with broader geographic exposure.

Broad incumbents

• Republic Services: Major US environmental services company with significant recycling, organics processing, and compost/MRF operations. Operates comparable yard-waste-to-product recycling infrastructure but at a national scale without retail landscape-supply storefronts.
• Lowe's: Second-largest US home improvement retailer with overlapping landscaping materials offerings (mulch, soil, decorative rock, pavers) sold across nationwide stores. Broad incumbent competitor on the consumer end of the landscaping materials category; does not operate yard-waste recycling intake facilities.
• Waste Management Inc. Largest North American waste services company with extensive organics recycling, compost production, and mulching operations nationally. Comparable on the yard-waste-to-product recycling loop, but at much larger scale and primarily as a B2B/municipal services operator rather than a retail landscape-supply yard.
• The Home Depot: Largest US home improvement retailer with a significant landscaping materials category including mulch, soil, stone, and bulk products sold through nationwide stores. Comparable product overlap on commodity landscaping materials; competes directly for the DIY homeowner customer segment but operates without the yard-waste recycling and recycling-to-product loop.
• Oldcastle APG: CRH subsidiary producing a broad portfolio of building and landscape products, including decorative stone, masonry, and hardscape lines. Comparable on the decorative rock, flagstone, and stone products categories Rocky Top sources from quarries, but operates as a much larger incumbent with manufactured building products as its core.
• Vulcan Materials Company: Largest US producer of construction aggregates and crushed stone with operations including decorative stone, road bases, and quarry-sourced rock. Comparable on decorative rock and Class 6 road base / structural fill product lines Rocky Top offers, but Vulcan focuses on infrastructure-scale aggregates rather than residential landscape supply.

Regional players

• Casella Waste Systems: Northeast US-based waste and recycling company with developed organics recycling, compost, and processing operations. Comparable on the recycling-intake-to-product business model, but operates in the Northeast rather than the Mountain West and lacks Rocky Top's retail landscape-supply storefronts.
• Rumpke Consolidated Companies: Family-owned waste and recycling provider serving OH, KY, and IN with established organics recycling and composting operations. Comparable on the recycling-driven mulch/compost production model, but operates in a different geography than Rocky Top's Mountain West service area.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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