Revolution Ranch

Revolution Ranch sits on 700 acres in the Southern Interior of BC, short ride up the Fraser Canyon from Vancouver.

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2. “From your table, back to your table”; that is “FULL CIRCLE ORGANICS”.
3. We are the only ones who make the highest and best use of your unused food.
4. We produce the cleanest, most valuable and productive Organic Compost, anywhere.
5. We then use that Organic Compost to produce Certified Organic food from our idyllic 700 acre Certified Organic Farm.
6. We also make some of our Organic Compost available to a select few to help them greatly enhance their yields and productivity.
7. This is our story:
8. The growing importance of diverting discarded food from the waste stream provided us with a special opportunity to develop a fully integrated system to SEPARATE…
9. …COLLECT…
10. …SORT…
11. …PROCESS…
12. …COMPOST…
13. …AND FARM
14. …with the most natural, highest nutrient material anywhere.
15. Ask yourself this: What contains the most nutrients; the tree bark, the wood, the leaves or the apple it grows? Common sense tells you…
16. …it’s THE APPLE, of course!
17. It is fine for yard trimmings to be composted to grow more grass on golf courses or plants in your garden, as the compost produced with those inputs is of lower nutritional value.
18. But it’s the nutrients in food that truly need to be used to grow more healthy food! That is our advantage over everyone else.
19. By necessity, Certified Organic farming has historically occurred on relatively small plots because the wonderful principles that govern those natural farming practices limit how nutrition is used to assist growth.
20. Certified Organic farmers cannot use chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, etc.
21. Put another way, they aren’t able to get enough nutrition to their crops to match commercial yields. That’s why Certified Organic products are more scarce and expensive than their less-desirable competitors.
22. What, we thought, if we could produce organically what conventional, modern agriculture does, without all the environmental drawbacks?
23. Our idea – our dream - was to connect the rapidly growing practice of recovering discarded food stuffs with providing natural, high nutrient soil amendments to facilitate Certified Organic agriculture on a large scale.
24. We found that through 30 years of investment in the infrastructure necessary to acquire that valuable organic material that we were uniquely positioned to pull this off.
25. Revolution Ranch is located in the dramatic Botanie Valley, 8 kms northeast of the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers in British Columbia.
26. One of the oldest working farms in the Province, by 2006 it had slipped into disuse and disrepair.
27. This diverse, 700 acre property was acquired by Revolution in 2009, with the goal of developing it into a showpiece of modern environmental and agricultural practice.
28. Being a semi-arid environment, it is ideal for open windrow composting, the most flexible, tried and true composting process in use on the planet.
29. Our Ranch has abundant access to water and wonderful growing conditions, but the soils are relatively infertile. In essence, they lack the organic matter necessary to support productive agriculture.
30. Organic Compost Facility in Yellow In 2010, before commencing construction of our Facility, we conducted an intense, year-long public consultation.
31. Afterwards, we invested heavily…
32. …to ensure that all legitimate local and regulatory concerns were addressed.
33. The result was the World’s best designed, constructed and operated compost facility.
34. Why is this important? Because not only do we take every precaution to protect our lands and the surrounding environment, the processes we employ assures that we produce the best quality compost imaginable.
35. Like fine wine, we take the proper amount of time for our compost to mature. From the time the process begins until its ready for use, 18 months has passed.
36. Most others try to rush that process so what you buy from them does not have the proper pH and is prone to heat up, destroying seeds and harming plants.
37. What we do at our facility is no different in science or nature than what is constantly occurring on every forest and orchard floor around the World.
38. Whereas most other compost is produced primarily from yard trimmings (the bark, wood and leaves) our feedstock consists of clean, high nutrient fruits, vegetables and other food products.
39. + In order to boost their nutrient content, most other compost operators add controversial “biosolids” (also known as “sewer sludge”) to their mix.
40. There is growing concern World-wide that biosolids contain trace elements, even drugs, that are not eliminated through the composting process. That concerns us and apart from the “yuck factor” is the reason we at Revolution will NEVER use biosolids in our process.
41. Shockingly, most of the other compost produced in the interior of British Columbia contains some level of biosolids.
42. They may call what they produce “Class A Compost”, but you need to determine if their product contains any biosolids.
43. You can rest assured that our Organic Compost is “100% BIOSOLIDS FREE”!
44. But our Organic compost does so much more than just provide nutrients, it also: •  improves the soil structure, porosity and density, thus creating a better plant root environment; •  increases infiltration and permeability of soils, reducing erosion and runoff; •  improves water holding capacity, thus reducing water loss and leaching in sandy soils such as those found throughout the TNRD; •  supplies a variety of macro and micronutrients; •  controls and suppresses certain soil-borne plant pathogens; •  supplies significant quantities of organic matter; •  improves the ability of soils to hold nutrients for plant use; •  supplies beneficial microorganisms to soils and growing media; •  Improves and stabilizes soil pH; and •  binds and degrades specific pollutants.
45. This has worked wonders for us! But what does it mean for you?
46. Our Organic Compost can be spread on any farm or garden anywhere, without restriction.
47. It can be used as an input for Certified Organic production…
48. Well, the nutrients in our compost are far superior to any others. As they say: “The proof is in the produce.”
49. The following slides show the development and growth of our Certified Organic Hops field, initially planted in early July 2015 and just before harvesting in mid-September 2015, less than 10 weeks later. Hops normally take 3-4 years to mature…
50. “Since organic producers cannot use [nitrate] fertilizers, they must rely on organic alternatives such as compost” The following are extracts from a September 2015 letter from one of our happy customers:
51. “For a number of years, we attempted to produce our own compost on-site…but the scale was beyond the abilities of our farm.” “We have since applied compost [from Revolution Ranch]… and have seen significant improvement to our soil’s organic matter content.”
52. “I will continue to seek compost in large quantities from [Revolution] Ranch...”
53. “These results demonstrate that with sufficient compost supplies, organic yields can be competitive with conventional growers.”
54. Growing in our compost: plants on our farm matured twice as fast as normal – in two years, not four – our yield was TWICE the average and we received TWICE the price per pound of regular hops. This is a game changer: certified organic farming with commercial yields and premium prices! Please let us know how we can help you…