Waste to Soil Consulting
Empowering communities to turn waste into wealth — regenerating soil, strengthening food systems, and restoring balance through knowledge, action, and connection to the land.
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Meet Natascha Parsons
Founder & Systems Thinker
Natascha Parsons is an Indigenous entrepreneur specializing in community-scale composting, circular food economies, and sustainable business development. Based in Fraser Lake, British Columbia, she bridges Traditional Ecological Knowledge with modern composting science.
Her work helps Indigenous and rural communities transform organic waste into regenerative, revenue-generating soil systems that build both ecological and economic resilience.
Contact: [email protected] | 604-901-4309
Our Philosophy: The Five Pillars
Healing & Transformation
We turn what's discarded into something valuable. Composting symbolizes healing — transforming pain and imbalance into fertile ground for new life.
Justice & Rebalancing
Circular systems expose hidden injustices and redistribute power, allowing Indigenous communities to reclaim control over their resources and livelihoods.
Economic Sovereignty
Creating community wealth instead of dependency. Turning waste into value builds freedom and sustainability for families, people, and lands.
Spiritual Connection
Nothing is wasted — energy always returns. We honor the cycle of life and death, giving and receiving, creation and decay.
Creative Entrepreneurship
We see potential where others see garbage. Building systems and finding value in overlooked places drives innovation and resilience.
Services We Offer
Waste Audits & Site Assessments
Comprehensive evaluation of your community's organic waste streams and optimal composting site locations. We identify opportunities and design systems that fit your unique landscape.
Training & Mentorship
Hands-on workshops that blend Traditional Ecological Knowledge with modern composting science. We empower communities with the skills to manage their own systems.
Feasibility Studies & Business Plans
Strategic planning that transforms composting from an expense into a revenue stream. We develop sustainable business models aligned with community values.
Grant Writing Support
Expert assistance securing funding for your composting initiatives. We understand funder priorities and craft compelling proposals that win support.
How We Work Together
Initial Consultation
We begin by listening to your community's needs, goals, and vision. Together we explore how composting can serve your broader food sovereignty and economic objectives.
Assessment & Planning
Through waste audits and site evaluations, we develop a detailed understanding of your resources and opportunities. We co-create a roadmap aligned with community capacity.
Implementation Support
From securing funding to training staff, we walk alongside you through every phase. Our sliding-scale model ensures accessibility regardless of budget constraints.
Long-Term Partnership
Our commitment doesn't end at project completion. We remain available for ongoing mentorship as your systems evolve and grow over time.
Project Investment & Timeline
Sliding-Scale Approach
We believe every community deserves access to regenerative systems. Please contact us for a free consultation and pricing.
Typical Timeline
Most projects unfold over 8 to 12 weeks, though we adapt to community readiness and seasonal considerations. Feasibility studies may be completed in 4–6 weeks.
We work within funding cycles and harvest schedules, ensuring our support arrives when communities need it most.
Circular Food Economy Workshops
Our interactive workshops engage communities, schools, and organizations in exploring how waste, soil, food, and people form one continuous cycle. Through hands-on learning and reflection, participants discover their role in regenerative systems.
1
Waste to Wealth Mapping
Participants trace organic materials through community systems, identifying where "waste" becomes opportunity. We map current flows and reimagine circular pathways.
2
Compost Science & Practice
Hands-on learning about the biology of decomposition. Participants build small-scale systems and learn to manage moisture, temperature, and carbon-nitrogen ratios.
3
Traditional Knowledge Sharing
Elders and knowledge keepers share ancestral practices of soil stewardship and reciprocity. We honor how our ancestors closed the loop long before "circular economy" became a term.
4
Enterprise Development
Exploring business models that create community wealth from compost sales, soil blends, and value-added products. We discuss pricing, marketing, and cooperative structures.
Composting as Medicine: Spiritual Workshops
Our workshops go beyond the practicalities of composting, delving into the profound spiritual connections between transforming organic matter and healing ourselves, our communities, and our planet.
Ceremony and Medicine
Composting is approached as a sacred ceremony and potent medicine for both the land and its people. It's an act of deep reciprocity and respect for the cycle of life.
Waste Transformation & Healing
We explore the spiritual connection between the transformation of waste into fertile soil and the journey of personal and community healing. Discarded materials become new life, mirroring our own capacity for renewal.
Sacred, Living Soil
Drawing on Traditional Indigenous understanding, we recognize soil not merely as dirt, but as sacred, alive, and foundational to all existence. This perspective informs every aspect of our composting practice.
Blending Ceremony with Practice
Our workshops are uniquely designed to blend ceremony with hands-on composting practice. Participants engage in rituals that honor the elements and the process, deepening their connection to the work.
Healing Power of Soil
Experience the profound healing power of working directly with soil and organic matter. This tactile engagement fosters mindfulness, reduces stress, and reconnects us to the natural rhythms of the earth.
Ancestral & Land-Based Spirituality
These workshops foster a strong connection to ancestral knowledge and land-based spirituality. We learn from Indigenous wisdom keepers about ancient practices of soil stewardship and regenerative living.
Through practical techniques combined with spiritual reverence, participants gain skills and a deeper sense of purpose in regenerating our shared world.
From Earth to Soil: The Journey of Indigenous Food Systems
1
The Age of Relationship (Before 1500 CE) - "When the Land Was Our Garden"
  • Seasonal rounds connected families to salmon, berries, roots, and hunting grounds
  • Controlled burning renewed berry fields and meadow roots
  • Cache pits, drying racks, and grease trading formed sustainable local economies
  • The soil was kin — tended through care, ceremony, and deep observation
2
The Age of Separation (1500s–1800s) - "When We Were Taken From the Soil"
  • Fur trade and settlement disrupted seasonal rounds
  • Mission systems and Indian Act confined Indigenous families to reserves
  • Traditional fire use was outlawed; berry and root gardens overgrew
  • Access to rivers, hunting grounds, and trade routes was restricted
3
The Age of Extraction (1900s–2000s) - "When the Earth Grew Silent Under Concrete and Machines"
  • Industrial agriculture replaced community farming
  • Fertilizers, pesticides, and monoculture exhausted the soil
  • Canneries and processed foods replaced preservation and trade
  • The idea of "waste" appeared — food lost its sacred cycle
4
The Age of Regeneration (2020s–Future) - "The Return: Waste to Soil"
  • Reclaiming waste as sacred resource — compost as ceremony
  • Teaching circular food systems grounded in traditional ecological knowledge
  • Community composting and soil regeneration
  • Restoring food sovereignty and interdependence with land
Our people were never far from the soil — we were only waiting to return. Waste to Soil is the map home: where science meets ceremony, and where nothing is wasted.
Why Communities Choose Us
"Natascha helped us see composting not just as waste management, but as an economic opportunity that honors our relationship with the land. Her approach respects our knowledge while bringing practical expertise."
— Community Development Coordinator
"The sliding-scale model made this possible for us. We secured grant funding with Natascha's help, and now we're generating revenue from what we used to pay to haul away."
— Rural Municipality Planner
"What sets this work apart is the integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with modern systems thinking. It's not one or the other — it's both, working together."
— Indigenous Community Leader
Our Mission & Vision
"To empower communities to turn waste into wealth — to regenerate soil, strengthen food systems, and restore balance through knowledge, action, and connection to the land."
Building Resilience
We envision a future where every community controls its own organic resource cycle — where food scraps become soil, soil grows food, and the cycle continues without extraction or exploitation.
This work closes the loop from waste to food to soil and back again, creating economic opportunity while healing our relationship with the earth.
Ready to Transform Your Community?
Let's Start the Conversation
Whether you're exploring a small pilot project or ready to implement a full community composting system, we're here to support your journey toward regenerative systems.
Reach out today to discuss how we can work together to turn waste into wealth, restore balance, and strengthen food sovereignty in your community.
Natascha Parsons
Fraser Lake, British Columbia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 604-901-4309
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