Twenty four years ago Jerry Brunetti and I were finalizing our business plan for a new company that we decided to call EarthWorks.  I had spent five years at Penn State as a horticulture student and five years as a Penn State County Extension Agent.   Jerry had already established a business in the sustainable agriculture side of the business developing animal health care products.

We didn’t know much about this great big turf industry that we were getting into but we thought the time was right to develop a line of carbon-based fertilizer products.  We knew from day one that we would have an uphill battle. Continue reading →