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Gardens Alive! is one of the country’s leading mail order companies dedicated to biological control of garden pests. Sales are nationwide and the company traces its roots back to the early 1980′s and the kitchen and garage of founder and President, Niles Kinerk.
Environmentally Responsible Products That Work
“Environmentalism wasn’t a dirty word when I was growing up on the family farm in Yoder, Indiana. For all intents and purposes, it wasn’t a word at all. This was back in the 1950s, in a kind of Lassie-come-home rural America. And though I was growing up in a typical, self-sufficient family farm rather than a corporate-owned agricultural business, we used all of the new miracle pesticides that the so-called “green revolution” had to offer. Fact is, we felt sorry for our neighbors who hadn’t yet been so enlightened.
To us, the then-recent breakthroughs in chemical pest control and fertilization were little short of miraculous. They made everything seem so simple. Every problem had an answer. From borers in our corn to worked-out soil to parasites in our Poland China hogs, we had only to grab the right chemical. Every problem was distinctive, and there was a specific solution to each; it was a pie-in-the-sky promise of farming by the numbers!
It’s no wonder, then, that we weren’t fearful, or even cautious, about using these miracle chemicals.