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At Sanctuary Soil, we know a healthy garden starts with healthy soil. That’s why we consider soil to be a rather sacred thing. After all, soil is one of the world’s most important natural resources, and together with air and water is the basis for life on the planet earth. “... the Latin name for man, homo, derived from humus, [is] the stuff of life in the soil.” Dr. Daniel Hillel, 2012 World Food Prize Laureate Whether your soil is supporting the delicious foods you grow or the beautiful flowers and trees in your garden, our soils and amendments provide the ultimate growing conditions for nutritious, high-performing plants.
Inspired by Nature. Tested by Science. Sanctuary Soil provides the finest artisan garden soil products available on the market, based on the wisdom of the past with the best practices of today’s soil-building knowledge. Our artisan soils and amendments are crafted with pride the old-fashioned way, using the highest quality minerals from land and sea, along with premium worm castings, proprietary blends, and carefully harvested organic matter. These precious ingredients restore and improve the quality and fertility of your garden soil, while building a powerful, self-sustaining growing environment for your plants. “To be a successful farmer [or gardener] one must first know the nature of the soil.” Greek Philosopher Xenophon, Oeconomicus, 400 B.C.
Sanctuary Soil & Feed Products Empire Builder Empire Builder is a premium, artesian soil with a precise balance of minerals and beneficial ingredients for your indoor and outdoor planting needs. Not your typical potting soil, Empire Builder is painstakingly made using established best practices of sustainable soil-building processes. We challenge you to find a better garden soil on the market. Available Sizes: 2 cubic foot bags, 400 gallon supersacks and by the truckload
Features: • Clean Green Certified to reflect the highest agricultural standards as well as national and international standards. • Ideal for indoor planters, as well as large outdoor pots, grow bags, raised beds and gardens. Use for edible plants, perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees. • Suitable for plumeria, succulents and cacti, due to excellent soil drainage and aeration levels. • Generally no need to add amendments or fertilization for most plants. Just plant directly in Empire Builder and water. Soil nutrients are easily absorbed by plants for long-term healthy and nutritious growth. For higher yields, heavier feeding plants, plant-specific fertilizers can be added. • A healthy dose of Buckaroo Worm Castings, at least 6 pounds in every bag. • Each bag of Empire Builder represents the best bagged soil available today. • From our premium organic worm castings, organic compost, aged forest products to our proprietary mineral amendments; Empire represents the best available ingredients with the best production and quality control • Based on years of soil-building research in field trials and with commercial growers.
Ingredients: Crafted with pride from coco coir, sphagnum peat moss, composted forest product, worm castings, coco chips, lava rock, pumice, perlite, gypsum, langbeinite, sea bird and bat guano, fish bonemeal, feather meal, bonemeal, limestone, greensand, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, glacial rock dust, azomite, soybean meal, and rice bran.
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Sanctuary Soil & Feed Products Victory Brand Superior Garden Soil Composted forest products and other fine ingredients from land and sea make Victory Brand a premium, artisan growing soil for your indoor and outdoor gardening needs. When used with your favorite fertilizers, Victory Brand is ideal for everything from exotic houseplants to large raised garden beds. Fish meal, shrimp meal, crab meal and kelp meal are some of the ocean-based ingredients featured in this garden soil. Available Sizes: 1.5 cubic foot bags, 400 gallon super-sacks and truckloads
Features: • Clean Green Certified to reflect the highest agricultural standards as well as national and international standards. • Suitable for everything from indoor house plants to raised beds, grow bags and large outdoor pots. Ideal for perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees. • Works well with different types of fertilizer programs and provides valuable organic matter and nutrients for healthy plant growth. • Based on years of soil-building research in field trials and with commercial growers.
Ingredients: Crafted with pride from composted forest humus, sphagnum peat moss, perlite, coco coir, worm castings, lava rock, humic shale ore, fish meal, shrimp meal, crab meal, kelp meal, soy meal, dolomite lime, gypsum lime, glacial rock dust, oyster shell and azomite.
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Sanctuary Soil & Feed Products Buckaroo Worm Castings There are worm castings, and then, there are Buckaroo Organic Worm Castings. These premium, artisan worm castings offer an excellent all-in-one soil amendment, which is OIM listed for organic gardening, and safe around children and pets. Since the beginning of time, earthworms have converted organic matter into humus-rich soil with plant nutrients and revitalized soil biology. Worm castings are the “original” fertilizer, and they remain the purest and best quality plant foods today, adding beneficial microorganisms, nutrients and organic matter to the soil. Buckaroo worm castings are carefully hand-crafted using a one-year process. We feed our worms a special balanced diet. Our primary feedstock is organic compost and humus instead of grains or other non-beneficial feed stocks. We handweed our worm beds rather than use heavy machinery which may contaminate our products and we regularly apply a proprietary blend of beneficial amendments to the worm beds. The result is a superior product that is readily available to plants, and helps worn-out and depleted soils come alive in an all-natural, sustainably safe way. Available Sizes: 25 pound bags, 1 yard super-sacks and truckloads
Features: • We are the nation’s leading authority on worm casting production. No one can duplicate the proccess or facility or quality of our organic worm castings. • OIM listed for organic gardening, and Clean Green Certified to reflect the highest agricultural standards as well as national and international standards. • Supplies Mother Nature’s “original” fertilizer. Supports natural “cycle of fertility” in your soil. Adds valuable plant nutrients, trace minerals and growth enhancers to your garden. Helps plants fight pests and pathogens. • Odorless worm castings can be used indoors and outside. Ideal for vegetable gardens, house plants, flower beds, lawns, fruit trees and container gardens.
Sanctuary Soil & Feed Products o Vegetable Gardens: Mix in 1/2 to 1 inch of worm castings into garden beds, or top-dress with 1 inch around plants. Reapply every 30 days with 1/2 inch of castings. o Potting Soils: Add 1 part worm castings to every 4 parts of potting soils. o House Plants and Flower Beds: Apply 1 inch of worm castings in early spring, and fall. Mix into top of soil for best results. o New and Established Lawns: Use 10 pounds per 100 square feet. o Fruit Trees: Till in 1/2 to 1 inch of worm castings under half the diameter of tree canopy.
Ingredients: Crafted with pride from worm castings, made with worms fed a healthy diet of composted forest products and other proprietary ingredients.
Sanctuary Soil & Feed Products Big City Hydro-Mix Carefully mixed with the finest coco coir, perlite and paramagnetic lava rock, Big City Hydro Mix is a premium, blend for indoor hydroponic gardens. This organic listed soil amendment provides a perfect blend of water retention and drainage to support root growth and ensure higher yielding plants. Big City Hydro-Mix is triple-washed with R.O. water and pH buffered to ensure the finest quality. Washed to a ppm of 150 or less. Available Sizes: 2 cubic foot, 400 gallon super-sacks and by the truckload
Features: • OIM listed organic and Clean Green Certified to reflect the highest agricultural standards as well as national and international standards. • Suitable for all hydroponic and soilless systems. o Fill well-draining container with Big City Hydro-Mix, you can line bottom of container with lava rock or hydroton clay balls to aid drainage. o Feed soil with water-soluble fertilizer solution at pH 5.8 to 6.3. o Transplant prepared container with well-rooted cuttings, seedlings and plants. o Water plants as needed with fertilizer balanced at pH 5.8 to 6.3. • Ideal for heavy feeding plants. • Based on years of soilless research in greenhouses, field trials and with commercial growers.
Ingredients: Crafted with pride from coco coir, coco chunk, coco chip, perlite and paramagnetic lava rock.
Sanctuary Soil & Feed Products Dutchman Ultra-Premium Expanded Coco-Coir Dutchman Ultra-Premium Expanded Coco-Coir is an all-natural, organic listed soil amendment that is ideal for indoor hydroponic mixes or systems. We start with the highest quality coco coir made of coconut husk and triple-washed with R.O. water to 150 ppm or less and buffered for quality results. This earth-friendly amendment has excellent waterholding and draining properties to help you grow nutritious, high quality and high performing plants. Available Sizes: 2 cubic foot bags, 400 gallon supersacks and truckloads.
Features: • OIM listed organic and Clean Green Certified to reflect the highest agricultural standards as well as national and international standards. • Works in all hydroponic systems and encourages healthy root growth. • Plant directly in this expanded coco-coir, or amend it with your favorite ingredients. Water as needed and feed with a water-soluble fertilizer with a pH 5.6 to 6.3.
Ingredients: Crafted with pride from expanded, triple-rinsed coco-coir.
Sanctuary Soil PRICE LIST Potting Mixes Description Empire Builder Empire Builder Producer’s Blend is the highest quality, nutrient rich natural and organic soil on the market today. Ready to use right out of the bag. Clean Green Certified!
Victory Superior Garden Mix Victory Garden Mix’s Sea Blend is another of our highest quality, nutrient rich natural and organic soils. Ready to use right out of the bag indoor or outdoor. Clean Green Certified!
Size
Weight
SRP
Bag
2 cu. ft.
45 lbs.
$24.95
Tote
2 cu. yds.
1360 lbs.
$465
Bulk
Minimum of 20 cu. yds.
680 lbs. $139 cu. yd. per cu. yd. plus freight
Bag
1.5 cu. ft.
35 lbs.
$17.95
Tote
2 cu. yds.
1360 lbs.
$350
Bulk
Minimum of 20 cu. yds.
680 lbs. $99 cu. yd. per cu. yd. plus freight
20 qts.
30 lbs.
$18.95
1 cu. yd.
1400 lbs.
$350
Minimum of 20 cu. yds.
1400 lbs. $199 cu. yd. per cu. yd. plus freight
2 cu. ft.
40 lbs.
$30.95
2 cu. yds.
1540 lbs.
$465
Bulk
Minimum of 20 cu. yds.
725 lbs.
$139 cu. yd. plus freight
Bag
2 cu. ft.
45 lbs.
$26.95
Tote
2 cu. yds.
1640 lbs.
$465
Bulk
Minimum of 20 cu. yds.
775 lbs.
$139 cu. yd. plus freight
Buckaroo Brand Worm Castings Bag Buckaroo Worm Castings are an all-in-one Soil Amendment that is safe for the environment, children, and pets. We further enhance this natural Tote process by feeding our worms a special mineral balanced diet. Bulk
Big City Hydromix Bag Big City Hydromix Ultra-Premium Indoor Blend is simply the best coco based hydro media. This pH buffered perfect blend has the correct air/water Tote holding for aggressive growth. Ready to use for all hydro applications.
Dutchman Coco-Coir Dutchman Coco-Coir is the highest quality expanded coir on the market. Conditioned in California, the Coco-Coir is produced under RHP style Dutch process ensuring quality and consistency.
Sanctuary Soil Customer FAQs Empire Builder What is the pH of EmpireBuilder? Around 6.5 pH. What should I do before or when I transplant into Empire Builder? Water in media slowly enough to completely wet out soil a day before transplanting. What is the percentage of worm castings? Around 10% by weight. Do I need to amend the soil? For most plants no, some plants may require additional feeding for best results. Will this soil burn seedlings or transplants? Most healthy starts will do just fine in well-watered soil.
Victory Brand Superior Garden Soil What should I expect from Victory Garden Soil in the first 30 days? Nice green-up and substantial growth. Do I need to amend this soil? For most plants, a light nutrient feeding after 30-45 days What is the percentage of worm castings? Around 10% by weight. What is the benefit from all the sea products? The sea products used in this mix are a great source of N/P/K, to fulfill the plants nutrient requirements. What is the pH of Victory Garden Soil? Around 6.5 pH.
Sanctuary Soil Customer FAQs Buckaroo Worm Castings What is the feed stock of your worm castings? Composted forest products Are these real castings or verma-composted castings? These are genuine worm castings. What is the application rate for top dressing? Between 1/2� and 1� tilled into the top of the container or bed What is the application rate for amending and for making my own soil? 10% to 20%. Can you make tea with Buckaroo castings, and if so what is the application rate? Yes, you can make tea with Buckaroo. Mix 1 to 2 lbs of Buckaroo along with an equal quantity of a high-quality compost per 5 gallons of water for a great tea.
Big City Hydro-Mix What is the pH of Big City? Around 6.5 pH. What is theTDS/PPM of Big City? Below 150. What are the benefits of your lava rock? Media stability and drainage augmentation. How frequent can I water /feed Big City? Up to once a day. Can I use this as a base for making my own soil? Yes, as it has a great coco-base.
Sanctuary Soil Customer FAQs Dutchman Coco-coir What is the PPM/TDS of your coco? Around 150 or less. What is the pH ofyour coco? Around 6.7 pH. How frequently can I feed/water Dutchman Coco-coir? Up to once a day or as needed. Why is your coco so fluffy? The fluffiness is due to our proprietary material preparation process. Is your coco RHP Certified? No, as RHP is a certification used by the Dutch for agricultural products grown, produced or used in the Netherlands. Sanctuary processes to a higher standard, which is the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Organic Input Material (OIM).