Rockford Crunchy Ladies

12/03/2025

We’re excited to launch our December special—with the theme “restaurant reciprocity”. We’ve been planning this promotion for a few months, but reading posts from some of our fellow local small business owners made the timing feel perfect. We ALL need eachother more than ever—and we need to KEEP our dollars in town. Here’s where you come in- do you love Nettle and want to see your favorite local restaurant composting with us? If you get them to sign up with Nettle we’ll gift you with a $25 gift card from that restaurant, so you can dine on us. Help us get some new business, and we’ll support that business, and you get to eat for free! Neat, eh? You can find the deets on our website here: https://www.nettlecompost.com/hot-pile-specials. As a note: this promotion is for restaurants that are not currently subscribed to nettle —and for that reason our buddies at and aren’t eligible this month, but if they’re your favorite restaurant please give them some love and tell them thanks and thank you appreciate them being good earth stewards and that it gives you an extra reason to eat at their restaurant ❤️

11/18/2025

Hey folks! It’s been awhile since we introduced ourselves and we have many new followers, so, we decided it was high time to do it again. We’ll spotlight one of our worker owners over our next few route days! First up: Kate. (she/ki)
Kate loves digging in the dirt( er soil, but dirt sounds better here). She’s a farmer by trade, graduating from the organic farmer training program at Michigan state in 2010. She’s worked as a farm hand, farmstand manager, farm manager and has owned her own farm. She has deep reverence for the soil and has been an avid composter as a farmer—but when a sickness caused her to stop farming in 2018, and she no longer had a giant compost pile to throw her food scraps in she became a backyard composter for the first time. She soon learned some of the headaches of small scale composting—most notably the lag in the winter when her outside bins slowed down and were at capacity and she had to stop composting for a few months each year! During Covid she was feeling stir crazy and helpless (like most of us) and a little lost since farming defined her for the last decade and gave her a deep sense of purpose. She began thinking of a way she could still be involved in climate action without growing vegetables for sale and kept going back to the soil…she began researching composting operations all over the country and wanted to bring one to her community, which led her to reach out to her friend, nature educator and environmental activist, Jessie Crow Mermel to see if she’d like to build a curbside composting business in Rockford with her! And the rest is history (well kind of! The two began dreaming of a composting business in 2021 but didn’t formally launch until 2024!) FUNNY FACT: Kate was named MOST LIKELY TO…”find a way to recycle anything and everything” in her highschool superlatives (class of 2002). The accuracy of this prediction makes her giggle 20+ years later! When not composting Kate likes to craft, thrift, cook, garden and spend time with her family—Brett, her husband who’s a local muralist and painter of the worm wagon , their two kiddos, two dogs and two bunnies. 🫶🏼

11/07/2025

We can do big things together! This November when you sign up to do your part to fight climate change, we’ll donate half of your first month’s subscription cost to ! Join now at www.nettlecompost.com

10/29/2025

10/27/2025

Last call wet bags and cloth diapers All free. Various sizes. No holds. Please message us for pick up.

10/27/2025

Last call for Rockford Crunchy Ladies shirts! We will post the sizes by photo in the comments. 🙂 They are free. Message us for pick up.

09/03/2025

🍂As the season shifts, let’s gather in community for a cozy ✨Harvest Barter Market and Tea Time Gathering!✨ This month we’re celebrating autumn with tea, trading, harvest dishes, a fire, and plenty of fall fun.

Find more info at:
https://www.facebook.com/share/19QAYTCqe2/

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