Compost Academy Programs
Learn to farm microbes and restore soil fertility, no matter your scale, background, or skill level.
Compost Academy Complete
combines every program on offer into one. You'll be able to join the Soil Mentorship Program, Microscopy Program and all our Self-Paced Programs at one price. The most comprehensive way to learn the art of microbe focused composting and soil analysis. Join Anytime, Join Every Class.
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The Microscopy
Course
The Microscopy Course is a 6-Week, Live Microscopy Training Program that will teach you how to analyze soil health in a practical, actionable way. Learn how to identify soil organisms that show a functional or disfunctional soil foodweb, and tools to analyze soil health with simplicity. NEXT PROGRAM STARTS AUGUST 20, 2026
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The Self Paced Essentials Program
allows you to learn practical biological composting and soil restoration without having to attend a live 13 week program. You get access to a self paced course, replays from all our live coaching sessions, and access to our community. Plus you can always upgrade to the live program. JOIN ANYTIME.
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The Soil Mentorship Program
is a live, 13 week guided, practical training program that will teach you the essential skills and methods you need to create biologically rich, effective soil amendments. Also includes self paced course access. A virtual apprenticeship to rapidly build your skillset. Next program starts October 2026
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What Makes Compost Academy Different
We focus on implementing, so that you can:
- Build compost that actually grows biology
- Build biological systems that fit your land
- Apply soil amendments with intention and confidence
- Read and analyze soil organisms
- Observe, adapt, and make informed decisions
Many programs teach soil science.
We teach how to apply it — consistently and at scale, taught by professionals who use it with real clients in the filed.
Instead of teaching through theory we want to teach you through skill building and practice.
These are skills that will save you:
- Time — fewer seasons of trial and error
- Money — fewer unnecessary inputs
- Guesswork — because you can verify results and create your own replicable syste,
- Frustration-- Get guidance by professionals to help you get over frustrating mistakes and plateaus.
- Health-- Remove toxic inputs from your plants and soil amendments
Ultimately, we want to give you a skillset that will help you regenerate landscapes, and understand the process of ecological restoration from the soil up.
Every Background, Every Context.
Some Compost Academy students are farmers looking to break down waste and turn it into income streams. Some are professional composters. Some are community composters, homesteaders and landscapers.
Some are aspiring soil consultants and ecological educators. Everyone of them shares a passion for creating life by learning the process of Biological Composting.
See How A Commercial Vineyard Used Biological Compost Applications to Become Profitable.
In this Case Study, see how Microbe-Focused Composting helped transform two vineyards from struggling and chemical depending, to profitable and biological only. Learn how Brian Vagg worked with wine grower Alex Whistesides to use buck the trend of chemical inputs in Napa wine making.
