Using cedar-built vessels, we add air to a compost mixture of wood chips, sawdust, and horse manure to create a bed for your pet’s remains with the ideal balance of nitrogen and carbon. Over a period of time, we optimize the microbial environment to slowly and naturally transform mortal remains into compost rich soil. It’s a way to honor your deceased pet in the most natural way possible.

Our process takes 10-12 weeks. We will contact you as soon as your pet’s composted remains are ready.

$500 for cats. $750 for dogs. This includes retrieval of your pet from within the Portland metro area, if needed, and delivery of the finished compost. If you are outside the metro area and would like your deceased pet picked up, please know a moderate additional fee will apply.

Our facility is located on the Croft Farm on Sauvie Island.

Individually. Each pet is given their own unique container to ensure that the remains that are returned to you are solely those of your beloved pet.

Yes. We can arrange to pick up your deceased pet at your home or at a veterinary clinic. Please contact us if you are outside the greater Portland metro area to discuss availability and pricing.

Yes. We can place your pet’s remains in a protected or natural area on Sauvie Island, where our facility is located, in nearby Forest Park, or anywhere you request within reason.

Yes. Please contact us and we can try our best to accommodate your wishes.

Yes. If you choose, we can return a portion of your pet’s composted remains to you and spread the rest ourselves.

Yes. We can work with you to choose the perfect tree or shrub based on your needs and wishes. Additional fees will apply.

Yes. This will not affect the cost, which is fixed. We encourage pet owners to transport their deceased pets to our facility on Sauvie Island themselves. The natural setting is a beautiful and calm space to say goodbye.

Our cost covers personalized support, transportation of the body (if needed), transformation into soil, and return of that soil to you.

At this time, we can do pets up to 75 lbs weight, which includes cats, and small to medium sized dogs, as long as they weigh 75 lbs or less.

Because compost needs to continue to breathe, we return your pet’s composted remains in burlap bags, which can be reused in your garden.

No. Aquamation, or alkaloid hydration, uses water to break down tissues and turn bodies to ashes. Pet composting is done via terramation. This process uses wood chips and other green matter to mimic nature and boost naturally occurring microbes and beneficial bacteria to transform a body into soil.

Pentobarbital, the barbiturate animals are euthanized with, is composed of carbons, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. Studies show that after 17 weeks in soil,  pentobarbital degrades by 90%. To compost our pets, we add oxygen to create an optimal environment for beneficial bacteria to eat carbon, which it finds in wood shavings. Researchers propose that soil neutralizes pentobarbital because  the bacteria also eat the carbon in the drug, thereby breaking it down.