CSS News and Updates

Monterey County Weekly published an article on the Thrive Accelerator program and the assigned mentor to Dan Morash, Lorrie Koster, Mann Packing Chair/CEO. Her advice to break into the Salinas Valley marketplace for Dan was simple—"Lose the tie."

Dan Morash discussed the Thrive Accelerator program and California Safe Soil's solution to food waste on NPR for the Monterey Bay Area and what it is providing for supermarkets and growers.

Daniel Morash doesn’t like to see bad food go to waste. In 2012, Morash and his brother, Dave, spent millions to launch CSS with one goal in mind: convert leftover organic material from supermarkets into a nutrient-rich soil amendment farmers could use to grow crops.

California Safe Soil has been chosen as one of the 10 finalists of the Thrive Accelerator program from Silicon Valley Group and Forbes Magazine. The program works with the world's leading agriculture companies and Silicon Valley tech companies to make farming “smart.”

California Safe Soil is proud to announce Patagonia Works as a new investor within their 20 Million and Change program which helps companies that have the same environmentally friendly values that Patagonia holds. Patagonia Works does one thing—use “business to help solve environmental crisis.”

We are very proud to have been recognized on March 18th by Imagine H2O as winner of their “Growth-Stage” competition category. This competition identifies and rewards firms that offer entrepreneurial solutions to water challenges.

We make fertilizer—Harvest-to-Harvest™, or H2H™—from food. Not the old way, through composting—the new way, through digestion with enzymes, in a scientifically controlled environment.

H2H™ is a liquid soil amendment that is screened to ~100 microns. That means it can be applied to farm acreage by drip lines, irrigation (fertigation), spray tank, foliar spray—or watering can.

The patent-pending CSS aerobic, enzymatic digestion technology is uniquely different from existing organic composting techniques and alternative digestive processes. First, CSS’s digestive process is 720 times more efficient than composting, which typically takes 3 months to complete.

On March 18th, we made a joint announcement with Save Mart. Save Mart and CSS have an Agreement in Principle for Save Mart to supply organic waste to CSS from all 225 of their stores under a long-term contract we expect to negotiate in coming months.