Georgia Organics: Connecting Local, Sustainably Grown Food

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Georgia Organics is a non-profit organization that connects Georgians with local, sustainably grown food. The organization is supported by members and publishes a monthly newsletter (e-dirt), quarterly newsletter (dirt), and the Local Food Guide. In addition, Georgia Organics hosts an annual conference and conducts workshops and field days to educate farmers on sustainable farming practices. They also provide a forum for discussion and educational articles for organic farming and gardening.

Visit the Georgia Organics website for a search-friendly directory of sustainable farms, gardens, co-ops, markets, etc. You can also search for local farms and gardens using their Google Maps search feature.

Website: CleanAirGardening.com

Clean Air Gardening Website

Business Description

If you are looking for organic gardening supplies, check out Clean Air Gardening. Their website is easy to navigate and provides gardening information as well as an e-commerce store stocked with the latest green gardening products. They feature a wide range of products including reel mowers, rain barrels, composters, organic pest control products, and organic lawn care products. If you are considering an organic home garden or would like to start an organic lawn care program, check out Clean Air Gardening to get started.

Business Features

  • Organic Gardening Products
  • Gardening Products
  • Reel Mowers
  • Composters
  • Online Store

About the Company

“Clean Air Gardening might never have come into existence if Lars Hundley, the president, hadn’t been too cheap and environmentally conscious to buy a gasoline powered lawnmower to take care of the yard at a house he was renting back in 1997.

There wasn’t a chance that he was going to spend hundreds of his own hard earned dollars to purchase some noisy, stinky, gasoline-powered contraption just for the benefit of his landlord. No way!

Instead, he poked around the back of a local big box home improvement store and found an old fashioned push reel mower, hidden way down on the bottom shelf where no one could see it.

“Wow!” he thought to himself. “I didn’t even know they still made these things! I wonder if it works?” He dragged it out from the bottom shelf, paid at the register and took it home.

Once Lars got the mower home, put it together and started pushing, he was in for a pleasant surprise. It worked, and it worked well. It wasn’t noticeably harder to push than some heavy, stinking 80 pound gas mower. And it did at least as good a job cutting the grass, if not better.

That was the moment when the wheels started turning…” – Source: cleanairgardening.com

Source: www.cleanairgardening.com

Contact Information

Clean Air Gardening
2266 Monitor Street
Dallas, TX 75207
Website: www.cleanairgardening.com

Farmer D Organics

Farmer D Organics

Business Description

Farmer D Organics makes gardening sound like the next hip and trendy thing. Their website provides good information for the first-time gardner, and they provide courses and consulting work for setting up community centered gardens. Visit their site to learn more about all of the projects that Farmer D has helped create.

For those of you who are in the southeastern portion of the United States, you can find “Farmer D Organics Biodynamic Blend Compost” at several Whole Foods Market locations. The compost is created from waste material received from the area Whole Foods Markets and other by-products which are blended to create a biodynamic compost.

Business Features

  • Organic Gardening Products
  • Gardening Products
  • Consulting Services
  • Online Store

About the Company

“Farmer D Organics is an environmentally friendly, socially responsible business that creates farms and products for the earth and its people.

The Farmer D Organics product line is based on creating and making available the highest quality organic soil and plant foods for growing the most nutritious and delicious food and medicines from the backyard gardener to the large scale organic farmer.

Farmer D Organics Signature Biodynamic Blend Organic Compost is a Demeter certified biodynamic compost that is made using the organic spoils from Whole Foods Market as a key ingredient that not only makes a superior product, but also a fantastic sustainable, closed-loop model that we plan on replicating nation-wide.

By creating organic and biodynamic farms and gardens, Farmer D Organics is helping to create a more sustainable world by fostering healthier communities that grow their own food at their homes, schools, businesses, farms and more.

Farmer D Organics is committed to education and social justice and therefore provides discounted products and services to help build garden programs for schools, camps, special care programs, correctional facilities, hospitals, community gardens and other non-profits.” – Source: farmerd.com

Source: www.farmerd.com

Contact Information

Farmer D Organics Garden Center
2154 Briarcliff Rd. Atlanta, GA 30329
Website: www.farmerd.com

Reel Mower – Gas Free Lawn Care

Well summer is now in full swing and we have decided to give green lawn care a try. We’ve used corn gluten as weed control and other all natural products in our yard and garden. Now we are giving the old fashioned push mower a try. Some of our neighbors have gas and man-powered reel mowers already and we wanted to try it out. Jon always wanted to be able to mow the grass and not wake up our kids while they nap.

I really like our new reel mower we purchased from ecomowers.com They had a great deal on our model and offered free shipping. We purchased a Sun Lawn LMM 40 reel mower since it was one of the few mowers that can tackle bermuda grass. It weighs about 17 lbs. so I can carry it no problem, has nearly a 16″ cutting swath, and mows the grass as low as 0.4 ” to 2.2″ high. There is an optional grass catcher attachment you can get and collect your clippings for composting. I really like how easy it is to push and Matthew loves holding the lower handle and pushing it too. I love that I can now mow the lawn and not have to wait for Jon to do it. Sometimes he travels for work and I am forced to do the the yard work. I can not operate the gas powered mower, but with our new reel mower it’s a breeze. The only problem we have had is that we use pine bark mulch in our landscaping and that will stop the blade from spinning so you have to keep your lawn mulch free. Another issue is an unlevel lawn can also stop the blades. We sanded our lawn for the first time this spring and that seems to help with the uneven lawn. I think if we sand again next spring our mowing will be smooth sailing.