The Lawn Care Company employs an environmentally conscious lawn care system.

I believe in creating a lush, green, and healthy lawn by using lesser and sometimes no pesticides. I use the most effective, less toxic chemicals only as they are needed. The Lawn Care Company is committed to safer lawns and customer satisfaction.

Customer satisfaction is an important concern. This is why I feel there is great need for products that will promote life in the soil. Plants are only as healthy as the soil they are grown in. This is why I highly recommend adding the soil and plant conditioning applications to the high quality fertilization and weed control program.

Twenty years ago I was excited about the potentials of not only feeding plants but also re-building the soils that the soil can support them. I have learned quite a bit through my interest and have been incorporating what I learn into the lawn and landscapes I care for. I have still been just as excited, if not more, over the past five years. I have seen results by building the soils.

These results include but are not exclusive to:

• reduced high nitrogen fertilzers - resulting in evenhealthier soils and ground water

• reduced insect damage

• less fungal problems

• more sustainable greening and health of plants

• more drought resistance

  

The humusworkshop has been designed to allow people to be more aware of better and safer alternatives to traditonal plant care. Humusworkshop explores people's understandings of how natural systems work. As of December 2002, interviews that you can listen to using real audio are now available.

The
"WORMWOMAN"
online interview

aka Mary Appelhof

"Worms eat my garbage. They've been doing it for twenty-seven years. I set up my basement worm bin with shredded newspaper, a bit of soil, and a few thousand redworms. I bury food waste in it. The worms eat it. They also eat the bacteria and protozoa and fungi and other microorganisms which decompose it. They grind and mix and secrete and excrete and eventually the food waste and bedding turns into worm castings which we use in our garden. The whole process is truly on-site recycling", says Mary.

"No one in this country has done more for the self-image of worms than Mary Appelhof, the undisputed and nationally recognized, "Worm Woman."
-Green Living Magazine-

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