Schmelly's Dirt Farm

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We know what it means to sniff New Orleans. Recycling organic material into compost so you can grow healthy food. Smell ya later!

We also seek to dismantle & compost racism, patriarchy & the gender binary. We envision a city with healthy soil and people empowered to grow & share good food. Schmelly’s is an organics recycling company that produces high-quality compost and soil products for the farmers & gardeners of Greater New Orleans. Since 2014, we have composted over 7 million pounds of organic material. Schmelly’s transforms New Orleans’ food scraps into healthy soil while fostering meaningful, uplifting, living-wage jobs. Our vision is to work together to examine and dismantle social constructs of oppression such as racism, patriarchy, and the gender binary by building the capacity of co-workers to communicate across differences in a democratic work environment.

11/05/2026

get yr fall garden on... 🌱🍂 links in bio. pickup at our site or have us deliver. smell ya later! 🏵️

09/23/2026

cmon by, no appt needed: Fri 9/25 9am-noon, Sat 9/26 9am-noon. bulk compost, garden soil, pine straw, mulch

09/11/2026

OPEN 9/12/26 🪻 8:30-1pm 🌱 garden soil, compost, mulch, pine straw

09/07/2026

🚨 get yr dirt! 🚚 deliveries will pause in Oct! 👀 however: pickup from our site will still be available 🛻

limited slots available now till Sep 19 ⏳ then no deliveries till Nov 2!

💻 head over to our website for all the dirty details on products, prices, & appointments. link in zee bio

09/04/2026

come get yr bulk garden materials 🪏🪏
saturday 8:30am-1pm 🌷
compost, garden soil, mulch, pine straw

09/03/2026

❗📗Environmental Impact Report Incoming❗

The numbers are in, and we’re excited to share them with you. From January to June of this year, Schmelly’s has picked up 165,001 gallons of organic material 🥕, which converts to a whopping 1,376,108 lbs of waste that would have otherwise gone to the landfill 🗑️.

That number translates to a sequestration of 3,577,881 lbs of CO2 💨 that would have been released into the atmosphere, which is the work of 65,042 trees 🌳!

With this waste, we generated 454,115 lbs of compost,🐛 which is enough to support the growth of 43,665 tomato plants 🍅.

It feels good to compost with you, New Orleans.🤝

🤓 If you’d like more information about how we got these conversions, feel free to nerd out at www.compostnow.org/impact-data-sources

08/19/2026

06/24/2026

i find it hard to capture the entirety of our compost site in a photograph. we bring in 4+ tons of food scraps each day & maintaining the health microbial ecosystem so we can make good compost & help farmers grow more food. its a beautiful place & we want everyone to see it & learn how this is something everyone can do everywhere, even in yr backyard.

summer is here 🌻 we'll be harder to reach in July as we are taking breaks to fix broken stuff, rest & follow other passions in life. we are still here, resting & getting ready for fall season 💚

06/12/2026

we're looking to hire someone temporarily to help us with driving on our compost pickup routes in June. experience with a small trailer & pickup truck in the city required. you'll be working outdoors in all weather moving heavy rolling cans with a work mate. please DM if interested! references are helpful!

04/06/2026

delivery availability paused till May! 🚚 we gotta cure our next batches of compost & repair our machines (and our bodies 🥴)

May appointments available on our website! 🗓️

Address

8301 Olive Street
New Orleans, LA
70118

Telephone

(504) 535-4769

Website

http://schmellys.com/

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