
Hi, my name is Randy Ritchie and I'm one of the Co-founders of Number 2 Organics. I grew up in Pacific Palisades, and the home that I grew up in was one of the thousands of homes that were destroyed in the Palisades Fire. My family and I have been greatly saddened by the loss and devastation caused by the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires. It was heartbreaking to see our beautiful communities suffer the loss of the homes, schools, places of worship and businesses that shape the wonderful towns we live in. Our thoughts and our prayers are with all of you.
I’ve lived through many fires growing up in Los Angeles and have never seen damage like this in all my years living in the City of Angels. I’ve been asking myself since the fires erupted on Tuesday, January 7th, what I could do to help my friends, neighbors, family and fellow Angelenos suffering such tragedy.
God answered my questions and prayers with a simple idea to share the years of soil remediation work that I’ve done as a soil, garden, farm and landscape consultant. I was inspired by Him to offer FREE classes on Soil Remediation for the LA Fires. I asked my wife Norma, my consulting and life partner about doing the classes and she loved the idea. Together we came up with the idea to give the classes on ZOOM on our growrealorganic.com website so that we could reach as many people as possible.
Our class is going to teach those affected, as well as gardening and landscape professionals how to remediate the soil, gardens, landscapes and growing spaces around the schools, homes and businesses that have been ravaged by fire destruction. By using the biological inoculations and REAL Organic protocols that we have created and used with great success on 1,000’s of acres healing and transiting gardens and landscapes to Organic for the past 25 years, we can apply the same methods of remediation to our fire ravaged communities.
The methods we use really work. We start with the critical breakdown and removal of the toxins in your soil, then rebuild it with healthy, living soil biology from inoculants and the best composts and safe, natural amendments. Health and safety are the first priority in any type of bioremediation work. You don’t want to just clear our sites and start replanting using low quality bulk soil yard products or bagged faux “Organic” soils and composts. Most gardeners, landscapers and contractors do not know how to heal and repair soil. We’d love them to join our class to find out how so please share this class with them too.
One of the things that we recommend to gardeners and landscapers in the soil rebuilding process is our Farm Made Organic Compost. It comes from the hundred year old dairies in the Los Angeles area and is loaded with soil microbes, the bacteria which are building blocks for healthy soil, as well as nutrients and trace minerals to help your gardens, landscapes and grows thrive as your replant them.
We also use our Premium Organic Topsoil in remediation. It is real topsoil that was scraped off of the dairies as they were prepared for construction. Our topsoil is the perfect soil to fill and repair large areas that need soil replacement or to level off uneven soil. It is a true sandy loam with 11%-17% organic matter in it and is alive with beneficial microbes. This farm made topsoil is truly a miracle for large-scale soil repair and remediation, like cities and schools.

Sign up for one of our FREE classes on SOIL REMEDIATION for the LA FIRES at https://www.growrealorganic.com/service-page/soil-remediation-for-the-la-fires. They will be held online as ZOOM classes on Thursday, February 6th at 7pm and Wednesday, February 19th at 7pm. Please share this information with anyone that you know who has been impacted by this terrible disaster.
God bless you, your family and your community.
© Randy Ritchie 2025
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