Grow Compost of Vermont

What Grow Compost of Vermont does

Grow Compost of Vermont is a privately-held, for-profit micro-operator founded in 2008 and headquartered in Waterbury, Vermont. According to firmographic data, the company provides compost and soil products, farm supplies, organic hauling services, and tipping operations, serving a localized Vermont customer base with 1–10 employees. Its operating profile is consistent with a small, regional organics-and-waste-services business rather than a scaled platform.

The product surface is narrow: finished compost/soil amendments, farm items, and two service lines (organic hauling and tipping). Detailed product specifications, pricing, customer counts, channel mix, and revenue mechanics are not disclosed in available sources. The company does not have documented leadership, funding history, certifications, partnerships, awards, or regulatory actions in the input.

A significant portion of the provided source material describes Casella Waste Systems' organics platform — including the 400,000+ tons annual throughput figure, the Earthlife soil-amendment brand, the FoodCycler® product, and Casella's 2030 sustainability goals. This material pertains to Casella, a NASDAQ-listed parent-class waste company, and ownership linkage between Grow Compost of Vermont and Casella is not established in the available data; the source explicitly notes that no ownership information was found. Any analysis of Grow Compost of Vermont as a standalone entity therefore cannot rely on Casella's scale, financials, or product roadmap.

Name

Grow Compost of Vermont

Legal name

Grow Compost of Vermont

Website

https://growcompost.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Grow Compost of Vermont is a privately-held, 1–10 employee organics services company founded in 2008 in Waterbury, Vermont, providing compost and soil products, farm items, organic hauling services, and tipping operations to local agricultural and waste-generating customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organic Waste Management and Composting

NAICS

Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing (32531), Compost Manufacturing (325315)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Organics Collection & Processing (Composting/Anaerobic Digestion) (IMAIAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digestate & Compost Product Processing, Marketing & Distribution (Soil Amendments, Mulch) (EUAIAEAE), Compost & Soil Amendment Product Manufacturing/Blending (Value-Added Organics) (BPALAEAH)

Keywords

• Organic waste recycling
• Compost soil amendments
• Food waste processing
• Organics hauling services
• Biosolids management

Headquarters

HQ city

Waterbury

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Grow Compost of Vermont provides compost and soil products, farm items, organic hauling services, and tipping operations. The company processes organic waste streams including food scraps, wood ash, paper mill by-products, and biosolids into nutrient-rich Earthlife soil amendments through composting, anaerobic digestion, and land application methods.

Product overview

Casella provides organics recycling services as a platform of interconnected products and solutions. The core offering consists of Organics Services that process over 400,000 tons of organic waste annually, producing Earthlife Products (nutrient-rich soil amendments), and including the FoodCycler® by Casella for in-home or commercial food waste reduction. These products work together to collect, process, and transform organic waste materials—including food scraps, biosolids, paper mill by-products, wood ash, and other residuals—into renewable soil amendments and energy through composting, anaerobic digestion, and land application methods.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Organics Recycling Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 400,000+ tons of organic waste transformed annually

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Waste Management Inc. Largest North American waste services company with a rapidly growing organics recycling platform, including composting and anaerobic digestion at industrial scale. Comparable as a broad incumbent competing for the same municipal and industrial organics volumes.
• Republic Services: Major U.S. solid waste and recycling company with an expanding organics processing footprint and renewable energy from landfill gas. Comparable as a broad incumbent that bundles organics with collection, recycling, and disposal services.
• Casella Waste Systems: The publicly traded regional waste hauler (NASDAQ: CWST) whose organics platform supplies the Earthlife products, FoodCycler, and 400,000+ ton processing scale cited in the data. Directly comparable because it is the operating platform from which Grow Compost of Vermont's activities appear to be sourced.

Direct peers

• Vanguard Renewables: Northeast-based organics-to-renewable energy company operating farm-based anaerobic digestion facilities that process food waste and manure. Directly comparable on feedstock type, AD processing method, and renewable energy monetization.
• Denali Water Solutions: Specialty residuals and organics recycler that processes food manufacturing by-products, biosolids, and industrial residuals into value-added products. Comparable on industrial by-product feedstock mix and finished soil amendment output.
• AgriReNew: Organics recycling company specializing in converting food processing by-products and biosolids into compost and soil amendments for agricultural markets. Directly comparable on industrial feedstock acquisition and finished soil amendment product strategy.
• Natural Soil Products / Natural Resources Recovery: Operator of permitted composting and biosolids management facilities producing Class A biosolids and soil blends for agriculture and land reclamation. Comparable on biosolids composting, finished product manufacturing, and regulatory-heavy operations.

Emerging players

• Bootstrap Compost: Northeast-based residential and commercial food waste collection and composting service. Comparable as a regional emerging player building municipal and commercial organics diversion capacity in the same geography.
• Veteran Compost: Mid-Atlantic residential and commercial food scrap collection and composting operation producing bagged soil amendment products. Comparable on the integration of hauling services with branded finished compost products.

Others

• Element Markets: Renewable energy and environmental commodities company developing RNG projects from organic waste streams including anaerobic digestion. Comparable as a buyer/partner for renewable energy off-take from organics-to-energy operations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/grow-compost-of-vermont-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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