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The Velveteen Bean is hyper-local, small-batch East Bay compost made from high-quality, urban-salvaged inputs.

Keeping nutrients, microbes, and responsibility close to home.

Leaving contaminants out. Every small batch is hand-made with carefully selected seasonally available inputs.

Skip the emissions of the green bin, starve the landfill, build life.

Bring life back to your soil*

*soul.

Living Soil > Dead Dirt

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Make Compost At Home Again

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Living Soil > Dead Dirt ✳︎ Make Compost At Home Again *

Groundbreaker (3.5 gal of living, local compost)
$20.00

Think of it as a soil starter culture: a microbial neighborhood watch that protects roots, shares nutrients, and breaks open compacted, hungry soil so your garden can actually thrive.

Most store-bought “compost” is a scam in a plastic bag.

Dried out, cooked to death, padded with wood chips, and sold by the cubic foot. By the time you open it, there’s no life left. Dead dirt can’t revive a garden. You keep buyin, the soil keeps drying up. An idea garden holds water in balance..

Groundbreaker is different.

This is living local compost, dense and moist, alive with East Bay microbes, fungi, and the quiet hum of worms. These soil citizens already know our fog, our sun, our plants—and they’re ready to wake up your tired ground.

Optional add-on: fresh worms + castings for a turbo-charged dose of life.

📦 A 3.5 gal bucket can:

  • Break open & revive a 4x4 bed(depends on the state of your soil now)

  • Recharge perennials, trees, or shrubs

  • Jumpstart new plantings with real fertility

It’s alive.

This is Groundbreaker.

The Grape Resurrection (Various Sizes)
$35.00

Born from the winery industry in NorCal, revived by local microbes.

This isn’t just compost—it’s a resurrection. Made with grape seeds, skins, and stems rescued from a local waste stream we trust—then alivened with our own Groundbreaker compost, awakening the biology until every handful pulses with fungi, microbes, and organic matter.

The Grape Resurrection brings tired soil back to life, fuels worm activity, and nurtures roots with the vitality of vineyard and microbe combined. Blended, made, and brought to life by The Velveteen Bean.

Worm Bedding and Breakfast, 6.6lbs
from $9.00

The Velveteen Bean: Worm Bedding and Breakfast
A ready-to-use mix of coffee chaff plus the classic mix: bunny manure and lower percentages of coffee grounds, sawdust and hay. Designed as both bedding and food to keep your worm bin balanced, odor-free, and thriving.

Pick your price - buy one for someone else! Free at worm events.

Each bag costs $12 to make. Your contribution helps us share worm composting with more people, divert waste, and make healthy soil, for everyone.

You can always reach out for a free bag or arrange alternative payment/trades.

this IS the physical product checkout, the only way to make it sliding scale is via giftcard checkout, we will contact you for pickup/delivery SF BAY AREA ONLY.

Hi, I’m Maggie. I’m a composter producer, micro-hauler, and waste diverter.

I show and teach the magic of waste-to-renewal through story, installations, art, and education.

I wrote about “The Worm Choir” for Planted Journal.

More about my art.

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Live at The Moth.

Why go Local?

Local compost cuts hauling, builds real, living soil, and turns waste into shared joy and responsibility.

Not about perfection. About participation.

Get in touch!