EarthBoxes to go – Jo Anne on the right helping a customer
Jo Anne of Two Dog Organic Nursery in Los Angeles is sending off another smiling customer who will soon be enjoying fresh picked vegetables without the hassle of digging dirt.
Jo Anne and partner Alejandro were smart enough to see the business potential of portable sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) like the EarthBox. The idea is a winner.
Despite all the rather overblown rhetoric from dyed in the wool dirt huggers, most mainstream urbanites are not going to start “victory gardening”. There is buzz that is all out of proportion to reality. Without a major crisis as happened in Cuba dirt gardening is a non-starter for the vast majority of space limited and super busy city dwellers.
What does make sense, however, are portable SIP gardens that require very little work and space. Busy people in the city can easily handle this kind of “gardening” or more accurately personal food production. We will see more and more small business “SIP services” in the city in the future.
Source: www.twodognursery.com
Hi, and welcome to Two Dog Organic Nursery, the home of Year-Round Veggie Plants. That’s us, Jo Anne and Alejandro Trigo, with our two “boys,” Jake and Lalo, who played a major role in getting this Nursery off the ground . . . literally! After adopting them from the South Los Angeles Shelter (where they were cell-mates), they immediately proceeded to destroy our entire back yard. This lead us to doing our own gardening in the fabulous EarthBoxes . . . up on tables, where they couldn’t “explore.”
One thing lead to another, and soon we were filling up table after table with organic seedlings, obtaining our Nursery License, joining the Organics Program of the State of California, having Agriculture Department Inspections (who knew??) and seeking out Farmers Markets to join. It’s a longer story than that, but essentially, it’s how we started and how “Two Dog” got its name!
Our mission is to help folks enjoy the many benefits of urban farming – whether in the ground, in containers, big plots or small pots. To nurture, harvest, and consume your own Organic Produce is a thrill, and we’re here to help.
Our plants are grown in roomy 3½” pots, and are fully hardened off and ready to plant out in your garden. They’re all lovingly grown from only USDA-Certified Organic seeds, in OMRI-Listed soils, with OMRI-Listed organic worm castings and organic fertilizers. For your convenience, we also sell all these great growing products.
You can visit our Home Nursery by appointment or see us at one of these fine Farmers Markets each weekend:
SATURDAY: La Canada Flintridge 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
SUNDAY: Larchmont Village 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
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