WE ARE RETIRING
After over 30 years operating, Lemieux Composting has decided to retire as of October 1st, 2023.
We were successful in turning organic waste into the environmentally friendly needed product, Compost. We were the only ones in our area as it required many licenses, record keeping and achieving MOEE standards to consistently provide the gardeners with their secret ingredient “compost” to grow and achieve beautiful gardens and bountiful harvest. We were self-sufficient and received no funding or support. We have conquered the task of diverting large volumes of organics from the landfill at no cost to the taxpayer.
One thing we were always very proud of was to do business the old-fashioned way with a hand shake, selling quality products and providing friendly helpful service. Customers were often shocked if they did not have the right method of payment or forgot their wallet, they could take the product and come back later to pay. It was the support of our customers and our hard work as well as our expertise in the industry that allowed us to operate a growing successful business.
We have been honored to support and be a part of many projects, nonprofit groups and community events. We made sure to educate future generations through tours, meetings, functions and classrooms. We enjoyed hosting many competitions like the pumpkin and sunflower contests. It was very important to donate and give back to our community that we are proud to be a part of.
We would like to thank our customers, landscapers, local businesses and suppliers for being the best part of our daily operations. We are certainly going to miss seeing a lot of familiar faces. Words cannot express our gratitude to our immediate family for their sacrifices, support, understanding and always being there. When you own a business, it is long hours and it’s never restricted to just the hours that you are open, therefore it is often in conjunction with valuable family time.
Lemieux Composting feels fortunate to have had the opportunity to have pursued and achieved our goals, while supporting and making an environmentally conscience contribution.
We will be operating regular hours Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 8am to 2pm closed Sundays until closure October 1st. We still have our Garden Mix, Organic Compost, gravels, rocks and boulders for sale while quantities last.
We cannot express enough thanks to Susan Antler and the Composting Council of Canada for including and allowing us to be a part of an industry that is making such a difference environmentally. It truly is a Composting family. We would like to share a letter they sent upon hearing about our retirement.
Compost Council of Canada
16 North Cumberland Rd, Toronto Ontario
BRAVO & THANKS Lemieux Composting !
It is with great applause that we congratulate Lemieux Composting for their outstanding dedication, integrity and work.
Day-after-day, year-after-year and into decades of commitment, Lemieux Composting has served the community of Sault-Ste-Marie with the voluntary means to recycle their organics and create compost – the essential lifeforce for our soils and life on Planet
Earth.
Without fanfare and with great humbleness, Lemieux Composting has supported local community initiatives, helped those wanting healthier soil and the means to create a gentler environmental footprint. Their composting work has contributed to lowering pressure on landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing carbon sequestration and contributing to cleaner water, richer biodiversity and local self-sufficiency.
A Force of Nature, Lemieux Composting has also helped our Council in many ways – from our beginning years in the early 1990s, when our advocacy work to encourage composting needed proof – Lemieux Composting was there, showing that composting on a larger scale could be done and was the right thing to do; when we created the idea of a harvest celebration that was to become SOUPALICIOUS to celebrate Plant-Grow-Share a Row and local harvests, Lemieux Composting hosted our very first soup-er fun
community gathering; when governments needed to hear the needs and realities involved in processing organic residuals, transforming them to compost, Ontario’s North was heard from through Lemieux Composting.
As the Chapters of Life turn into new ones, on behalf of organics recycling, compost and soil health advocates across Canada, our Council extends our great appreciation to
Lemieux Composting for a fabulous fabulous run and legacy. We look forward to continuing to be in the front row of their enormous fan club, thanking them for making the positive difference that recycling organics delivers and which is needed now more than ever from everyone.
For the Love of the Earth®
Susan Antler
Executive Director cc: Larry Conrad, Chair, National Board of Directors
We were successful in turning organic waste into the environmentally friendly needed product, Compost. We were the only ones in our area as it required many licenses, record keeping and achieving MOEE standards to consistently provide the gardeners with their secret ingredient “compost” to grow and achieve beautiful gardens and bountiful harvest. We were self-sufficient and received no funding or support. We have conquered the task of diverting large volumes of organics from the landfill at no cost to the taxpayer.
One thing we were always very proud of was to do business the old-fashioned way with a hand shake, selling quality products and providing friendly helpful service. Customers were often shocked if they did not have the right method of payment or forgot their wallet, they could take the product and come back later to pay. It was the support of our customers and our hard work as well as our expertise in the industry that allowed us to operate a growing successful business.
We have been honored to support and be a part of many projects, nonprofit groups and community events. We made sure to educate future generations through tours, meetings, functions and classrooms. We enjoyed hosting many competitions like the pumpkin and sunflower contests. It was very important to donate and give back to our community that we are proud to be a part of.
We would like to thank our customers, landscapers, local businesses and suppliers for being the best part of our daily operations. We are certainly going to miss seeing a lot of familiar faces. Words cannot express our gratitude to our immediate family for their sacrifices, support, understanding and always being there. When you own a business, it is long hours and it’s never restricted to just the hours that you are open, therefore it is often in conjunction with valuable family time.
Lemieux Composting feels fortunate to have had the opportunity to have pursued and achieved our goals, while supporting and making an environmentally conscience contribution.
We will be operating regular hours Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 8am to 2pm closed Sundays until closure October 1st. We still have our Garden Mix, Organic Compost, gravels, rocks and boulders for sale while quantities last.
We cannot express enough thanks to Susan Antler and the Composting Council of Canada for including and allowing us to be a part of an industry that is making such a difference environmentally. It truly is a Composting family. We would like to share a letter they sent upon hearing about our retirement.
Compost Council of Canada
16 North Cumberland Rd, Toronto Ontario
BRAVO & THANKS Lemieux Composting !
It is with great applause that we congratulate Lemieux Composting for their outstanding dedication, integrity and work.
Day-after-day, year-after-year and into decades of commitment, Lemieux Composting has served the community of Sault-Ste-Marie with the voluntary means to recycle their organics and create compost – the essential lifeforce for our soils and life on Planet
Earth.
Without fanfare and with great humbleness, Lemieux Composting has supported local community initiatives, helped those wanting healthier soil and the means to create a gentler environmental footprint. Their composting work has contributed to lowering pressure on landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing carbon sequestration and contributing to cleaner water, richer biodiversity and local self-sufficiency.
A Force of Nature, Lemieux Composting has also helped our Council in many ways – from our beginning years in the early 1990s, when our advocacy work to encourage composting needed proof – Lemieux Composting was there, showing that composting on a larger scale could be done and was the right thing to do; when we created the idea of a harvest celebration that was to become SOUPALICIOUS to celebrate Plant-Grow-Share a Row and local harvests, Lemieux Composting hosted our very first soup-er fun
community gathering; when governments needed to hear the needs and realities involved in processing organic residuals, transforming them to compost, Ontario’s North was heard from through Lemieux Composting.
As the Chapters of Life turn into new ones, on behalf of organics recycling, compost and soil health advocates across Canada, our Council extends our great appreciation to
Lemieux Composting for a fabulous fabulous run and legacy. We look forward to continuing to be in the front row of their enormous fan club, thanking them for making the positive difference that recycling organics delivers and which is needed now more than ever from everyone.
For the Love of the Earth®
Susan Antler
Executive Director cc: Larry Conrad, Chair, National Board of Directors
"If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, they probably used Lemieux's Compost"
