About Chickadee Compost

Kate Tomkins, founder of Chickadee Compost, grew up in Brooksville, Maine and moved away for college. She loved growing up on the Blue Hill Peninsula, spent a few weeks each summer in the area, but never saw herself moving back.

Kate worked for ten years in humanitarian relief and post-conflict development settings around the world, and then in NYC. She moved with her family to the Seattle area in 2013, and began a stint with an environmental education organization there, before settling into work for an organization that sends seafood to food banks around the country.

Kate moved to Sargentville, Maine in 2018 to be closer to family. And to see this view every day.

While working in the food recovery and food waste space, and thinking long and hard about her place in the fight against climate change, Kate founded Chickadee Compost, with the belief that the Blue Hill Peninsula can and will do better with our food waste, to decrease our community’s carbon footprint, and to produce the yummiest compost around!

Kate completed the Maine Compost School’s week-long intensive training program in October 2019.

Please reach out if you want to learn more: kate@chickadeecompost.com