Captain Compost
Farmer: William and Peggy Cureton
1523 13th Street North
Birmingham, Talladega County, AL
35204
 
 
Phone: 205-298-3164
Email: curetonw@vmcmail.com
Website: www.captaincompostalabama.com

Nature of Operation:
    sustainable

Markets Served:

  • CSAs
  • Farmers Markets
  • On Farm/Farm Stand
  • Export
  • Producer Coop
  • Value-Added Processing

Product Categories:
    Vegetables


    Value-added products

    Farm supplies/services

    Agritourism

 

Farm Description:
    My 3 acre farm is 100% no-till, sustainable, borderless raised beds. I'm being using compost on my farm for over 7 years. I use my homemade compost as a mulch, soil amendment, and an ingredient in various aerated compost tea brews on my vegetables, flowers, and herbs.

Practices:
    I use cover crops like crimson clover, hairy vetch, winter peas, buckwheat, sunflowers, beans, summer peas, and radishes.I don't do any crop rotations on my beds. However, I do intensive companion planting with various herbs and cover crops.

Describe your product specialties and highlights:
    My main crop is my premium homemade compost that I sell to local farmers. My next biggest crops are tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash.

Where we sell our products:
    I sell my compost product to various farm feed supply stores and to students in my organic gardening classes.

Web/Mail Order Items:
    I sell premium homemade compost on my farm. I sell it by the 50 lb bag and by the truck load. I also sell tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers. I also teach various organic gardening classes at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and various Master Gardening clu