At Xtreme we are all about turning the negatives of waste into positives. Instead of organic material like food scraps and garden waste making landfill more toxic, our community is diverting it, and closing the loop by creating quality local compost products.
The Horizontal Composting Unit (HCU) was built in 2017 with funding from the National Waste Minimisation Fund, Waikato District Council, and Xtreme Zero Waste investment. It’s 30m long x 3m wide x 2m deep and is a controlled composting system, with moving lids and internal drainage.
At Xtreme, organic resources such as food scraps and green waste are mixed, then loaded into one end of the HCU. The mixture is hot composted through a natural process, reaching up to 65°C, which kills weeds, seeds, and pathogens. Over 10â12 weeks of composting, the mix is turned regularly and becomes our Superfood Compost. Our handy mechanic has re-engineered an old quarry gravel grader into a compost sieve to separate the coarse woody mulch from the fine, rich soil.
Close the loop by purchasing our local compost for your gardens. We have a range of compost and worm-made products for sale.
This compost is made from food scraps collected from Raglan households, and shredded garden waste. Superfood Compost is high nutrient compost and is best to use like a fertiliser. Use as like a fertiliser, dig into existing garden soil, especially in early Spring, or use as side dressing during Summer.
Beware, it is too rich to plant into but can be used as a side fertiliser dressing for flowers, vegetables and trees.
This compost made from Raglan’s garden waste that is hot composted and matured. It is ideal for topsoil use in building raised gardens, creating and levelling lawns, and general landscaping projects.Â
Garden Mix is a blend of Carbon and Superfood Compost and is ideal for planters, containers or layering on top of gardens ready to plant into.
This is a coarse chip mulch which has been composted through the Superfood process. This product acts like a mulch but with the added bonus of nutrients which are gradually released to your plants
This product is ideal for mulching around trees and garden beds in summer to conserve moisture.
Our worm tonic is a natural great addition of root boosting growth hormone to any plants, garden, indoors and containers. Dilute 1:10 with water and feed to your garden as you need it. We recommend monthly the week before the new moon is best.
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Worm castings bring life to your soil and enhance protection against disease. Sprinkle it around plants or mix it 1:10 with water to make a liquid fertiliser.Â
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We thank you for choosing to support locally made compost for growing your garden. We thank the community for separating their organic resources so that Xtreme can make compost. As you can see from this long worm, it’s been quite a journey evolving our systems and the 2022 targeted rate has secured the Raglan kerbside food waste collection service for the years ahead.
~ Mauri ora!Â
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