About our Sponsors

Sponsors of Sustainable and Urban Gardening support not just a website but a cause. We thank them and urge you to support them right back.

Olive Barn® is an eco-friendly garden and home retailer created by Jacqueline D'Elia in 2000. The inspiration came when looking for a way to combine her expertise in ecommerce with her love of gardening and home. A graduate of Texas A&M, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture. She is the author of the Olive Barn blog as well as her own personal garden blog, Southern Post. You can also find her blogging about her vegetable garden on her Houston Chronicle's blog, Boxed Dirt.

Olive Barn sells eco-friendly and green products from all over the world, using sustainable packaging whenever possible and always of materials that are biodegradable or reused from their suppliers.  Jacqueline says "Simply put, we love gardening, decorating our home and shopping.  We also love our planet and realize that we need to make better choices."

Liquid Fence, an "environmentally conscious company", manufactures and distributes natural animal repellents and all natural growth accelerators. Their home offices are located in the Pocono Mountains of Pa., with manufacturing and distribution based in Nesquehoning Pa. "The Liquid Fence Company prides itself on its ability to offer the consumer all natural and environmentally safe alternatives for repelling unwanted animals. We are actively involved in promoting natural gardening, and helping gardners, businesses, and facilities managers grow and maintain lush landscapes, without the harmful effects of chemicals." 

New from Liquid Fence is FreezePruf, a "non-toxic spray that improves plants’ natural cold tolerance up to 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit, depending on the variety of plant. Developed by botanists, FreezePruf™ protects the plant externally and systemically (throughout the plant) by enhancing both its natural “anti-freeze” like properties and its ability to survive ice crystal damage."

Fiskars has been designing and making fine tools since — would you believe 1649? Yep, and they led the revitalization of the town of Fiskars, Finland in the 1990's as an arts community that's winning awards for Sustainable Tourism. (Check out the Fiskars Cinema Series.) Here in the U.S., Fiskars promotes community gardens and gardeners through their yearly Project Orange Thumb Awards. And they support good gardening education by sponsoring good-quality radio, television and websites that teach the public about good gardening practices.

 

How to become a sponsor

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