Hi, I'm Jasmine

I’m so happy you’re here and I hope we can work together to build a healthier world for ourselves. I’m a composter and engineer and currently work on designing and installing composting systems and equipment, along with making compost for local farms.

My work revolves around better waste management practices that can restore our community’s soil and improve accessibility to local clean foods through healthier soils. Organic waste is filled with beneficial micro and macro nutrients that can be passed along to the microbes in our soil in the form of compost. I want to work on creating more systems that locally handle organic waste in such a way that it becomes a valuable resource for farmers. If we can close the loop locally, we can harness the power of local microbes to provide the plants we grow the micronutrients and macronutrients from our waste. If your hopes for the world align, or don’t align for that matter, please reach out! I’d love to chat 🙂

I hope we can...

Improve air quality and reduce GHG with better waste management practices

Grow food without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides

Return the nutrients and microbiome in organic waste back to our soil

Restore the microbiology or our soil to harness the nutrients that are already in the soil and reduce plant diseases

Bring macro and micro nutrients back into the food we eat

Build healthier and well-fed communities

Keep our local ecosystems and watersheds intact with reduced toxic run-off from ag and rotting waste

Do all of this in a self-sustaining and permanent way

Designing Compost Equipment and Systems

Since 2023, I’ve been working with GMT to design and install composting equipment and systems. I am an engineer and project manager and have worked on systems of varying scales – like rural communities, universities, resorts, farms, and large cities. We sell agitated in-vessel composting systems along with aerated static pile systems (pushing/ pulling air through a pile of material based on temperature). My role includes designing, costing out, and managing the production and installation of these control systems such that they meet customers’ needs and timelines and are UL compliant. When I install these systems, I train the team on the basics of composting along with how to use the equipment. Following commissioning, I work around the clock with customers to nail down the right recipe, go through maintenance and solve issues when they come up.

Soil Solidarity

I am working with farmers on the North Olympic Peninsula and the Community Wellness Project of Jefferson County to create a local, clean soil amendment for farmers in the area. Currently, compost and other amendments need to come from outside the community. By bringing an accessible compost local to farms, we increase the community’s food resilience.

My Learning and Education

I hold a degree in mechanical engineering from Olin College of Engineering. Olin is an experimental, project-based school that emphasizes the impacts of engineering. A central question I got from Olin is:

How do we work together to solve problems without creating more problems?

My answer to this question has been to think simply and take inspiration from nature. My biology class partnered with a composting facility in Mass, Black Earth. I fell in love with compost because it solves numerous problems in waste management, emissions, and soil health, while being something that already exists in nature. At a compost facility, we are simply optimizing and harnessing a natural process of decomposition.

While I work full-time, I prioritize continuing learning on my own time. I am taking Dr. Elaine Ingram’s Soil Food Web Course on soil microbiology, along with self learning through webinars and online resources. Learning about the creatures doing the hard work beneath my feet has given me so much context for what is happening in compost and soil. My favorite part is looking at these critters under my microscope.