
We create compost that builds living soil
Build soil health
Strengthen crop resilience
Reduce pesticide reliance
SoilWright combines expertise with nature to create products for healthier, more resilient soils for farmers and home gardners.
Significant time and investment go into sourcing premium feedstocks, refining recipes, and optimizing processes to consistently achieve robust microbial outcomes—an unceasing commitment.
Build soil health
Strengthen crop resilience
Reduce pesticide reliance
SoilWright combines expertise with nature to create products for healthier, more resilient soils for farmers and home gardners.
Significant time and investment go into sourcing premium feedstocks, refining recipes, and optimizing processes to consistently achieve robust microbial outcomes—an unceasing commitment.
Our Story
In 2016, Robert met Tom at Wright Lumber while looking through a bin of mill ends to use in his biochar production. Their conversation sparked a friendship built on a shared curiosity about soil health and how to repurpose Wright’s byproducts into biochar. While the timing wasn’t right to develop compost products at scale, the connection planted the seeds for future collaboration.
In 2020, Tom reconnected with Robert, now with a larger facility and more byproducts to manage. While the kiln-dried wood wasn’t suitable for compost, it was ideal for biochar, and Robert began using it. As they continued working together, their focus shifted toward crafting the highest-quality compost possible.
Seeking independent verification of his results, Robert connected with Nick in 2021, a Soil Food Web consultant with several years of experience helping farmers and compost manufacturers optimize microbial activity and diversity. After helping scale production while maintaining exceptional microbial outcomes, Nick was asked to join as a partner in 2024.
What started as a search for better ways to use sawmill byproducts has grown into SoilWright—a company dedicated to regenerating soil through biologically complete compost.

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Our Team
Tom Wright
Robert Feher
Nick Tomasini
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Tom has always been interested in plants, soil and being outside in nature – he loves the interconnectedness of natural systems.
In 1999, Tom founded Wright Lumber. Wright began as a wholesale brokerage company trading lumber on the west coast and Canada, focusing mostly on low grade lumber used in pallets and packaging, and wood stakes for nurseries and orchards. In 2015, Tom decided to move from strictly wholesale to manufacturing the products he had long brokered. Today, Wright Lumber has 33 employees in Dexter, OR and 4 sales people on the west coast. Wright is a zero waste company where all of the byproducts have value and are utilized in various creative ways such as biochar feedstock.
SoilWright is a continuation of Tom's closely held beliefs that nature holds the knowledge and is constantly seeking balance. Humans have destroyed this balance, but Tom believes in the miracles of nature and its ability to heal and regenerate. SoilWright seeks to re-supply nature with the elements needed to regain this balance.
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Robert was first inoculated with the passion for agriculture while growing up on an orchard in Europe, sometime between the ages of five and fifteen. His experience of the harsh realities of farm life and hard work at an early age kept those passions dormant for many years. It was not until his late twenties — when he began experiencing some health issues —that he was motivated to seek a deeper understanding of natural laws governing human health. This same quest introduced him to the amazing connections that exists between the immune, digestive and even mental health systems, and the beneficial soil microbes and soil health. As a result, he is now a lifetime student of the laws of nature so that he may become better equipped in serving the needs of his fellow human beings while restoring the integrity of his relationship with nature as well.
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Nick’s passion for nature, food, and soils led him to study agriculture and horticulture at Oregon State University, where he sought to understand modern agriculture and its intersection with ecology and the emergent organic farming movement. But with a curriculum rooted in conventional methods, he realized he’d have to look elsewhere for a deeper understanding of ecological agriculture. After earning his degree in 2005, he spent the next decade working across the industry—as a research assistant, lab tech, field scout, organic farmer, organic farm inspector, and consultant—gaining a broad perspective on the challenges and opportunities in modern agriculture.
Two pivotal moments led to him founding Humankind Oregon, LLC in 2015, a consulting and laboratory business focused on helping farmers improve soil health through biological and agronomic management—the discovery of Dr. William Albrecht’s methods for testing and interpreting soil minerals, and training with Dr. Elaine Ingham to become a Soil Food Web Consultant. Albrecht’s methods taught him to manage soil tilth, aeration, and nutrition while Ingham’s methods taught him to analyze, produce, and inoculate essential microbial life into these ideal soil conditions via BioComplete Compost and its derivatives. Over the years, he refined his approach, integrating additional regenerative soil health techniques with these methods on projects across the US and abroad.
That journey has led him to SoilWright, where we manufacture compost and other natural products to help farmers and land managers rebuild soil function from the ground up. We believe healthy soils are the foundation of resilient farms, nutrient-dense food, and the health of the ecology that intersects and overlaps with agriculture and society.