April 2024
Harvest Blend Compost in Action
See the blooming flowers near the Los Alamos Overpass with the use of our Harvest Blend Compost. See the difference in the soil health with the added benefit of our compost, boosting the soil health immensely.
June 2023
Engel & Gray enters its 77th year of Service
Engel & Gray, Inc. is celebrating their 77th anniversary in 2023. Located in the same building Carl Engel and Joe Gray started their partnership back in May of 1946. Both worked for Union Oil Company Carl running the local transportation division and Joe running the gasoline station at the corner of Broadway and Stowell Roads. The story goes that Carl drove into the station and asked Joe if he wanted to go into the trucking business, and Joe just pulled the doors closed and jumped in the truck.
77 years has seen a lot of changes to the business and today Engel & Gray Inc is a well established Transportation and Recycling Company. Operating a 40 acre Regional Compost Facility serving the Central Coast of California. Recycling organic material into valuable Compost. Today owned by the Engel family and run by Bob Engel and a great team the company consist of a trucking, rolloff service, and regional composting facility building Healthy Soil for Healthy Plants.
February 2024
Award for Supplier Honoree from the Econ Alliance & Growing Possibilities AG Forum
Presented by Econ Alliance and Growing Possibilities AG Forum on Feb 7th, 2024 we received an award in Recognition of Generations of Service to the Central Coast Agriculture Community as a Supplier Honoree. Supported by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash, Central Coast Community Energy, LimottaIT, Berchtold Equipment, Dignity Health and Allan Hancock College.
May 2023
Can Applying Compost Reduce Water Use?
The health of a grapevine starts at ground level – literally in the soil. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is helping farmers improve the quality of their soils through the Healthy Soils Initiative. Taylor Jones, Ph.D., Director of Viticulture at Star Lane and Dierberg Vineyards used his funding as an opportunity to study the effects of compost.
February 2021
California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy
In September 2016, Governor Edmund Brown Jr. set methane emissions reduction targets for California (SB 1383 Lara, Chapter 395, Statutes of 2016) in a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP). The targets must:
- Reduce organic waste disposal 75% by 2025.
- Rescue for people to eat at least 20% of currently disposed surplus food by 2025.
Beginning in 2022, SB 1383 requires every jurisdiction to provide organic waste collection services to all residents and businesses.
2 million tons of organic waste a year was already cut between 2018 to 2021, even before most communities launched their organic waste programs when the law took effect on January 1, 2022. California now has 206 organic waste processing facilities and is building 20 more.