Every year, Full Circle Compost is proud to partner with many nonprofits, schools, community gardens, municipalities, and many others across northern Nevada. We offer them amazing Nevada-made soils and composts to help community-centric, Mother Nature-friendly projects grow in our arid climate. Among many of these exciting projects, the community is able to come together and get familiar with organic materials recycling, food security, and how to grow BIG in Nevada!  Here are some of the awesome partnerships we made in 2021 and the plantastic projects each of them worked on.   Somers ..read more

It’s Time For The Big Harvest! Here Are Some of the Best Harvests of the 2021 Gardening Season With Full Circle Compost     Yippie, gardener! It’s officially fall and we’re officially in the prime of this harvesting season. That means garden-fresh ingredients to make garden-fresh recipes … there’s nothing more delicious! Check out how our Full Circle Garden Jungle turned out this year. It’s a record! So many vegetables, so many flowers, and so much growing! It’s harvest day here at Full Circle Compost and our green thumbs couldn’t be more proud.   The Best of Harvests From Our ..read more

Here in beautiful northern Nevada, the majority of our land is pure desert–dry, hot, and scarce of water. This year, it has been especially dry, which can certainly be troubling for our communities and nature. Simply put, this desert that we call home is in a drought. You can think of a ‘drought’ as a lack of water, a time period where there’s insufficient water to meet the needs of our area. According to the University of Nevada’s Living with Drought program, our current Nevada drought conditions are harsh, putting our Reno-Tahoe-Carson City region in an extreme drought condition.  Duri ..read more

We’re beating the heat during this record-beating summer, and your plants need the same! As the mid-summer hits, gardening and the growing is underway. The hot sun can be killer out there, and all of our plants are using every ounce of energy to keep a steady pace. At the peak of growing season, plants will begin to feel the heat, the pressure and the utter exhaustion from growing at such an outstanding rate. Just as marathon runners need rest days and an excellent nutritional regimen, plants require recharging methods to supplement their food intake. As gardeners, we act as the coaches on the ..read more

Soil Testing Year Over Year With Reno Food Systems & The University of Nevada, Reno   There are three very important components when it comes to growing lush plants, delicious produce, and keeping your plants as green and healthy as can be. Can you guess what those three things are? That’s right! Water, sun, and soil! Here at Full Circle Compost, we’re all about these three plant-loving things, but especially the health, quality, and stability of soil! It’s what we like to call ourselves experts in, and we sure have the soil science to ensure that your garden and growing areas thrive ..read more

Planting and Gardening Tips For Northern Nevada Growers   Northern Nevada: desert, snow-capped mountains, blazing temperatures, and frost. This beautiful place we call home has a climate unlike any other, which makes for quite the diversity of adventures and fun and quite the rollercoaster for our plants and gardens. Gardening in northern Nevada can be a little tricky, there’s no question, but when you have the know-how to grow, garden, and choose the right plants for our area, you can (and hopefully will) have a garden that thrives!   Seeds To Seedlings If you started your own seed ..read more

Unlock Your Inner Grow-Wizard With Full Circle’s Growing Challenge   Hey, gardeners and growers! Have you completed Level 1 and Level 2 of Full Circle’s Growing Challenge? Way to go! You’re on your way to becoming quite the growing wizard, in fact, the advanced and final level of our challenge is just that–Unlock Your Inner Grow Wizard! As you’ve been growing your skills (and your plants) throughout levels 1 and 2, you’ve gained quite the gardening and growing knowledge, and now it’s time to put it all to the test while advancing your growing skills to the max with our next set of gardeni ..read more

Take Your Indoor Planting Skills Outdoors With Full Circle’s Growing Challenge   Are you the most rockin’ indoor plant parent this side of the Mississippi? Go you, we love to see plants thrive!  There’s no question that indoor plants and outdoor ones require a different style of plant parenting. While you have to find a nice, bright open window to keep your indoor plants, the sun definitely isn’t as hard to find outside. And then there’s the fact that it probably doesn’t snow inside on your indoor plants–at least we hope it doesn’t, in that case you may have a roof problem–but with y ..read more

Challenge Yourself! Gain Your Green Thumb Growing Belt   Everyone loves a challenge, and as a gardener in the making, we know you’ll love conquering Level 1 of Full Circle’s Growing Challenge and far surpass your own expectations as a gardener and grower! Are you someone who’s antsy to get gardening but just don’t know where to start? Or maybe your love for house plants is blooming but your house plants just … aren’t. If this sounds like you and you’re ready to turn your black thumb into a green one, Level 1 is just the place to start! Come on grower, you can do it, you’ve just got to lea ..read more

How To Build Raised Beds For Your Gardening Season   Ready, set … it’s almost time to start that gardening season! It’s that time of year again–that’s right, gardening season! Boy oh boy, if you’re gardening gurus like us, you can hardly wait. Have you started planning yet? The months of February, March, and April should be dedicated to developing this year’s gardening plan. From figuring out what you’re going to plant this year and drawing up your garden map to building those raised garden beds and prepping your existing gardening areas, it’s time to start!  Having a plan and preppi ..read more