Royal Oak Farm LLC

OUR FACILITY

Royal Oak Farm is the premier organic waste recycling company serving Virginia businesses, industries and municipalities in Virginia.  Royal Oak has over 15 years’ experience serving the organic waste recycling needs of Virginia industries.  At our fully-permitted organic waste recycling facility in Evington, Virginia, we manufacture high-quality composts and soil products from a wide variety of clean, non-toxic, non-hazardous organic waste materials and residuals. 

Our compost manufacturing process meets and exceeds all Virginia DEQ regulations for: 

pathogen destruction 
time-temperature requirements 
compost stability and quality limits. 

We use the turned windrow method of composting, which ensures that the final product in no way resembles the look, feel, or smell of the original waste material.  Our process is based on 30 days of active composting and 30—60 days of product curing/maturation.  The final product is screened and either sold wholesale in bulk quantities direct to retailers, landscapers and construction projects or blended with other materials, like sands and soils, to make specialty compost-based soil products.

Royal Oak Farm, LLC is a small business owned primarily by Ken and Barbara Newman. Newman, a native of Great Britain, holds a degree in horticulture.  After he arrived in the United States in 1985, Newman toiled as a truck driver, and managed garden centers and a landscaping service before pooling resources with his wife, Barbara and her mother, Doris Mueller, to purchase the southeastern Bedford County farm in 1995.  Newman wasn't a stranger to farming when the family established their operation, having grown up on a dairy farm owned by Oxford University.  He's also well accustomed to recycling, which came into vogue in his homeland centuries ago out of necessity because of diminishing resources.

The composting facility and Royal Oak Farm operations are located in Evington, Virginia, about 20 miles southwest of Lynchburg, 50 miles north of Danville, and 40 miles east of Roanoke.