Here are some of our partners within the community who support Compost Queen in more ways than one!
Horse & Dragon has been an amazing help to Compost Queen! They have donated expired kegs to Compost Queen to inoculate compost piles with, grain bags to sell finished compost in, and pallets to create compost stalls! H&D has even hosted Compost Queen for a Composting 101 Class and an Earth Day festival. Lastly, H&D owners and employees use Compost Queen’s residential service! If you’re looking for a fresh, tasty, craft beer and good people, this is THE place to be!
Green Events organizes premier athletic events in Northern Colorado with a focus on environment and social sustainability. Compost Queen is able to help them with their greenness by composting all food scraps from their events. Compost Queen has been able to have a booth at each of their events and fliers given to all the race goers. This partnership has helped Compost Queen grow into what it is today and has assisted Green Events in their goal to divert the majority of event related waste away from the landfill.
Maxline brewing has opened their hearts – and their tasting room – to Compost Queen and our ongoing series of Compost 101 seminars. Catch us on the back patio with Casey, Cathy, Kevin or Rustin sometime and learn how this independent brewery is rooted in building strong communities that are forward thinking.
Bath Garden Center, located on Timberline and Prospect, is a local haven for plant lovers in Fort Collins. Their focus on building better communities through horticulture provided Compost Queen an opportunity to teach a Compost 101 seminar back in April that was cancelled due to COVID.
Look for us back at Bath in the future as we build safe, socially distant education programs to serve our community together!
The City of Fort Collins is well on it’s way down the Road to Zero Waste, and Compost Queen is proud to help accelerate our community’s goals. The City has chosen Compost Queen as the Food Scrap Composting Pilot Program contractor for 2025-2026 in an effort to reach their sustainability goals.
A fully funded non-profit and corner-stone of our community, the Gardens on Spring Creek provide educational access to Larimer County residents of all ages, young and old. We’ve partnered with the Gardens as a local expert on composting best practices, implementation and maintenance as a speaker in their fall 2020 programming. We hope to have a continuing presence at the Gardens and teach young and old all about composting. If you haven’t taken an afternoon stroll through their gardens off Shields, you’re really missing out!
One of the premier farm-to-table restaurants in Fort Collins, Ginger & Baker is committed to responsible organic waste management. Located in the heart of Old Town on Linden Street, Ginger & Baker features a cafe, restaurant and fine dining establishment that will tickly any culinary fancy. Known for their incredible pies, chicken pot pies and, of course, the Queen’s favorite fried green beans (they’re healthy!).
Lace & Lilies thoughtfully sources as many of their blooms as possible from local growers, allowing them to support community while working with flowers that are truly at their peak. By designing with the seasons, they let nature lead—choosing varieties that are naturally at their most beautiful and long-lasting.
Behind the scenes, they prioritize earth-friendly practices wherever they can: using plant-based floral foam and creating foam-free designs whenever possible, wrapping bouquets in eco-friendly materials, and reusing plastic and cardboard packaging from their own flower deliveries to reduce waste. Most of their organic floral scraps are composted with us at Compost Queen -ensuring that what once bloomed can nourish what comes next.
For Lace & Lilies, sustainability isn’t a trend—it’s an ongoing commitment to creating beautiful work with care for the planet we share.
