Our Mission

is to recycle food waste into compost and save the earth.

About Us

The average person throws away 20 lbs of food each month. When you become part of Table to Farm Compost, you can reduce that waste entirely. We take your food scraps and turn them into a living soil that sequesters carbon from the atmosphere down into the ground supporting plant health and microscopic life that keeps the soil food web alive and healthy. 

We envision life on planet earth where healthy, living soils support a diversity of plants, animals, and people.

 Climate change is one of the most urgent and potentially devastating  issues of our time. Its effect on our planet’s people and biodiversity is unparalleled because we still have the opportunity to reverse its impact. Table to Farm Compost is meeting this challenge head on with its full cycle business model of diverting waste and recycling it into soil amendments.

Climate change is disproportionately impacting those who are socio-economically disadvantaged and is costing our planet trillions of dollars in disaster mitigation. Here in the southwest, the impact is heightened with unprecedented drought and wildfires impacting people, the planet, and the economy. 

Our Operations

Carbon Farming in La Plata County

Our Story

As climate activists and carbon farmers, we are working in the La Plata County region to divert waste from landfills, reduce methane emissions, and recycle organic materials such as food scraps and wood shavings into living soil.

Total tons of CO2 emissions diverted
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This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. This is not something you can like on Facebook.”

– Greta Thunberg

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The Table to Farm Team

Monique DiGiorgio

Managing Member

Monique has been an environmental activist since the age of 16 and is excited to bring her love of nature …

Monique DiGiorgio

Monique has been an environmental activist since the age of 16 and is excited to bring her love of nature and the environment to climate activism in La Plata County through Table to Farm Compost’s mission to recycle food waste into compost and save the planet. Monique began her career as a field ornithologist and then moved into the non-profit world and found she had a proclivity for building small organizations from the ground up. Her career has involved myriad environmental initiatives from wildlife crossings to private lands conservation. Most recently, she also made significant contributions in the fields of healthcare and affordable housing through her work with the Local First Foundation. Monique holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Notre Dame and brings a science-based perspective to her work. She is currently taking Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web course and hopes to become proficient in identifying the microorganisms that make compost a living, breathing world of action under our feet with the goal of making compost that builds soil health and sequesters carbon.

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Grady Turner

Operations & Sales Manager

Grady and his wife Pam love living in Durango and want to help preserve our beautiful environment!

Grady Turner

Grady and his wife Pam love living in Durango and want to help preserve our beautiful environment! Grady was a former elementary educator in Steamboat Springs. While teaching there he implemented many school-wide environmental initiatives. He started the school Green Team, school-wide recycling and then composting in the lunchroom! Grady has taken this passion to Durango and his new mission is to help save Mother-Nature through composting! He feels it is one of the easiest ways for people to make a positive impact on the climate by reducing the amount we put in our landfill, and therefore the harmful methane that is released into the atmosphere. Grady has also worked in the food service industry for many years and so he also wants to get our local restaurants and food related businesses to come on board. You might also see Grady in our local schools as a part-time substitute (or teaching about composting). When he is not “saving Mother-Nature” Grady is out and about, hiking, skiing and enjoying all that Durango has to offer!    

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Taylor Hanson

Managing Member

Taylor received his B.S. in Finance with a minor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from…

Taylor Hanson

Managing Member

Taylor received his B.S. in Finance with a minor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Colorado. He also studied courses in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy program. After college, Taylor went on to work in the mortgage banking sector in Florida. He returned to his hometown of Durango in 2014 to co-manage his childhood family business, a Honda automobile franchise. During this time, he attended a masters-like automotive program (NADA academy) in Washington, D.C., focused on financial and personnel management of the automotive dealership’s different departments. Taylor cares deeply about local sustainability, closed-loop ecosystems, and the natural environment. He likes to mountain bike, ski, hunt, play tennis, and practice aikido. He is also an EMT and Ski Patroller at Purgatory Mountain. “I like helping folks, playing in the dirt (compost reference!), photographing nature, and being a part of meaningful community work.

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Jeremy Church

Farm Manager

Jeremy moved to Durango 4 years ago to build a life with his girlfriend who is a Durango native…

Jeremy Church

Jeremy moved to Durango 7 years ago to build a life with his girlfriend who is a Durango native. Jeremy has a CDL,  and an associates degree in I.T. Jeremy enjoys Jeeping and camping in the San Juan Mountains. Jeremy believes in protecting the environment he loves recreationally so he supports eco friendly choices like recycling, composting and electric cars. 

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“Table to Farm Compost was a welcome addition to our operations,” said Rachel Cain, Co-Owner of Savannah Tree Farms. “Composting at this scale is complementary to our mission of sustainability and provides a great resource for our farm.”

Having a farm location like Savannah Tree helps us cost-share with a like-minded business and grow our operations to scale from table to farm to table.

Savannah Tree Farm

Just northeast of Elmore’s Corner, Savannah Tree Farms is a family owned and operated farm in La Plata County whose mission is the creation of a sustainable agricultural model that will improve the health of our community and environment through responsible use of resources, ethical treatment of animals, and the provision of high quality food.

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