Urban Soil

SAN ANTONIO - Scott Anderson and Jenni Urbanczyk owned a tree service and wood shop in Utah before coming back to Texas. Scott would source all the materials by hand from riverbeds, mountains and the deserts that surrounded them. The trees he was asked to remove would supply their sawmill and the sawmill would feed his wood shop.

In his wood shop he would create items that people needed from signs to tables to chairs to decorative art.  Nothing was wasted. “I was making things and taking trees down for free for all the wood.  When all the tree services in the area collapsed, it just made sense to go into the land clearing and soil business. I had the equipment and insurance,” says Anderson.

Two years ago, the two sold their business in Utah to their employees and started a land clearing and soil business here in San Antonio, Urban Land Clearing, Soil & Compost with co-partner Trevor Broyles.

Unlike their previous company where they focused on hazard removals in terms of trees and other materials, now they are fully integrated into not just tree protection, but necessary tree removal, tree trimming to full land clearing prior to construction and the recycling of those commodities.  All the resources that are removed are then turned into useable by-products.   Nothing is wasted.

“We make several different kinds of soils and most have to meet certain specs.  We also do custom blends and manufacture the soils and products landscape architects need. Going even more full circle, the city of San Antonio is on course to be a green city and there’s also a nationwide push to remove organics out of landfills so we are not just a manufacturing company, we are a recycling company.  

“We take in manure waste, brush and vegetables and provide a service to vegetable packaging companies so their waste is not dumped in a landfill. We 
provide a land service to dispose of 
organic waste at a lesser cost and turn it into usable products that will eventually turn into saleable soils and materials for landscapes,” adds Broyles.

Urban Land Clearing, Soil & Compost is certified by the US Compost Council and are required to follow the rules and guidelines set forth by the Council.  “It’s part science, but part art too. There’s the look of it, the feel of it, and the smell of it.  Simple things like the weather can affect everything,” adds Broyles.

Anderson oversees the operations of the company. Broyles oversees the material side and sales for Urban and Urbanczyk is Urban’s marketing director.

 “At the end of the day, we just want to recycle and be kind to our earth,” says Urbanczyk.

 Urban Land Clearing, Soil & Compost is a manufacturer, specialty contractor and supplier in San Antonio. -cmw