Mother Dirt Collective

02/14/2026

We are open for drop off yard waste since April 1. 2026 brings us to a new season and we will be charging a fee this season of 25$ for the year which will run until November 20. Registration and payment may be done at the compost yard kiosk. Purchases of compost or vermicast are available also at the self serve kiosk.

07/25/2025

Gardening is in full swing and i still don’t have any green beans!!!
I have had hard times in the past few years growing them- they don’t germinate, don’t emerge from the soil, chewed off by rabbits, and on the sad story goes.
Im. I realized that i was planting them too deep for one thing. My third try has successfully seen three bean plants that now have two full sets of leaves on them, but they are exposed to bunnies and i don’t know if they will last. I have plants in many places on my property so that’s why these are not protected, YET. I do have time today to fence them so i will get that done.
They are planted in an experimental raised bed that’s mostly filled with pet hair from the local groomer.
Hair does break down quickly in a large compost pile that’s hot, but the cooler bed hasn’t had the hair changing into soil like i thought it might. The green beans in this hair bed look like they need some nutrients which i will add today. I thought beans made their own nitro but mine need more i think. The squash in the back look pretty good, you see a sunflower that the deer ate leaves off it, and tiny in the back ground is one scrawny milkw**d. My plan is to let milkw**d take it over and fill it up. That way I’ll have a great place to attract monarchs and enjoy watching the caterpillars grow.

01/09/2025

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Here’s an idea i am considering for storing my produce this coming season. I lose my extra carrots, apples, cabbage, onions, etc because i can’t keep it all and it freezes.
I would like to have this kept in our shed plugged in with a small heat source to keep it at an ideal temp, but the ground is a great even temp i wouldn’t have to worry about.
One fall i had potatoes stored in a foam cooler that was partly in the ground and covered in leaves and a tarp. The potatoes never froze and kept well all winter.

Got an old chest freezer? Give it a new life and turn it into a root cellar to store your fruits and vegetables over the winter. We have used a buried freeze...

05/11/2024

The Hosta Stop has our products- all of them! You don’t have to drive to Kellner to get our compost! The Hosta Stop has beautiful grounds full of beautiful Hosta plants growing in lovely plantings.
There is a friendly cozy garden house and some greenhouses to check out.
This is the place for me!

05/11/2024

Local business supports Mother Dirt Collective!!
Reeves famous in Wisconsin Rapids has Mother Dirt Activated Compost.
Ask for our compost at Reeves’s, also The Hosta Stop out on 54 on the way to Plover has it!

05/06/2024

Too funny- i had thought that when this plant was small it was a “ mini hollyhock”, it had small hollyhock shaped leaves and a similar shape of the base plant. As it is note obvious- it’s a type of mustard plant and still will have flowers, but not at all what i first decided. I will leave it flower, but before it seeds out i will remove it. My tiny pollinators are on it and it is contributing to the food sources around my gardens for them.

05/05/2024

Here is a cute greenhouse near Mosinee and Wausau- you can find Mother Dirt products here along with great flowers and many veggie plants, plus seeds and potatoes and trees. Little Reds Market. Rothschild
(715) 359-4425

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05/04/2024

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April showers bring May mud on the farm! 🤣 April showers bring May flowers everywhere else! 🌺 We have so many amazing locally owned greenhouses in our community to buy your flowers AND…get this…we have the worm p**p for you to help your flowers grow!

👏 At the Farm Store, we now have Mother Dirt Collective small packages of worm castings or Matt can hook you up with large tote bags of worm castings thru Heil Ginseng Enterprises Inc.

📣Give a Shout-Out to You Fav Greenhouse…
Cain Greenhouse
The Flower Trough LLC
Majestic Farms Greenhouse
Petals To The Metal (hanging baskets)
Down To Earth Greenhouse
Clearview Garden Center
Schairer's Autumn Acres & Greenhouse
Mill Creek Gardens
Blooming Kreations Greenhouse
Butternut Valley Farm & Greenhouse: 156658 Restlawn Rd Wausau, WI54403

🚜 Farm Store open Saturdays from 9am - 1pm or by appointment.

💲Cash or Check

📍238226 Chico Rd, Wausau, WI 54403

04/26/2024

Open for sales on Saturday 9-12:30
Sunday noon to 4 and by appointment.
9411 County Road Ww, Kellner
715-421-1220

04/26/2024

First photo- a kale plant that made it through the winter in my garden.
Second photo- Come awake, Bumble Bees!

04/20/2024