What is Everyday Mulch?

mulch | ‘məlch (noun)

: material spread around or over a plant to enrich or insulate the soil.

(Oxford English Dictionary)

Mulch comes in all different materials, shapes, and sizes. Like compost, we believe mulch should be used to feed your soil - our Everyday Mulch does that and more.

Everyday Mulch is created from locally sourced organic debris including small tree limbs, hedge trimmings, arborist chips, leaves, and more. After being processed through a 5” grinder, the material is piled, aged, and screened, before it is ground a second time through a 2” grinder. The mulch fines are used in our composting process as a bulking agent, and the finished material becomes Everyday Mulch.

ZONE 7 IN, ZONE 7 OUT

The raw materials that go in to our Everyday Mulch originate within 50 miles of our location. By using Everyday Mulch you are ensuring that your mulch is made from species of trees, shrubs, and plants that are found in our very own Zone 7, meaning the original organic matter of these materials is a good match for our native soils.

COMPETITIVELY PRICED

Our Everyday Mulch is the most affordable in our area and we process material to reduce incidental trash contamination to less than 2%.

MILES ON YOUR MULCH

Next time you are in a big box store looking at bags of mulch, pay close attention to where that material is produced - it probably originated at a lumber yard before being driven to the packaging plant, loaded on to a truck and transported up to 2,000 miles to your local store! Alternatively, our Everyday Mulch is manufactured in bulk within 10-50 miles of the originating material and delivered straight to your door, lowering your carbon footprint.

NO MILLING INVOLVED

When forests are logged, saw mills utilize parts of the newly cut logs to make many mulches sold in our area. There is certainly a time and place to use these materials (for example, our Tenderturf starts its’ journey at a Central Virginia lumber mill in order to ensure a clean product for our playgrounds), but for customers who may be conscious of their contributions to the logging industry our Everyday Mulch is a great alternative.

NO ADDED DYES

Unless you are an NFL football team decorating your flower beds for the big game, we believe mulch should be natural in color. Natural fading that occurs can mean that the organic matter has depleted from your mulch and made its’ way in to the soil, or it can be a good reminder that your plants may need water. Our Everyday Mulch contains no dyes.