Sparrow's Nest Organics
Always Growing
How We Do What We Do
How to Eat Our Food
Sparrow's Nest Organics is the only certified organic produce at Edmonton's wonderful, outdoor farmer's market. See us there every Saturday, from 9am - 3pm, starting May 19 through to Thanksgiving weekend. Located downtown on 104 Street, between 101 and 104 Avenues (West of Greyhound bus terminal).
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Sparrow's Nest Organics
Box 52
Opal AB T0A 2R0
Ph: 780-942-2259
Cell: 267-2259
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Compost
At Sparrow's Nest, we use compost to increase soil microbes and humus content of the soil. We revive the soil so that we may revive plant health.
We use straw, mixed with vegetable wastes both from the garden and from Organic Roots Food Market (an excellent organic whole-foods store in Edmonton). Their entirely organic restaurant generates piles of beautiful vegetable peels, fruit pulp, and coffee grounds, which we turn into black gold for our soil. We mix the straw and plant/vegetable matter through an old manure spreader, leaving a nicely-mixed windrow of fresh materials. Soil microbes do the rest. They consume the raw organic inputs, and the residue left behind is what we call compost.