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  • Totally Gardens sells batch composters, bin composters, pyramid composters, pails and composting accessories. Their feature products include a tumbling compost mixer, earthworm eggs, a compost mixer, compost aerator, a kitchen compost crock and compost starter.
  • Solvita sells a range of products from Woods End Research, a laboratory specializing in testing the quality & characterization of organic waste, compost and soils. Their compost products include a compost maturity test kit as well as compost test supplies.
  • Planet Natural sells a variety of composting bins, composters, and composting supplies.
  • The Recycle Works Limited sells composting bins, worm composting, shredders and books about composting. The Recycle Works is a UK Company dedicated to the supply, design, manufacture and development of domestic composting equipment.
  • Transform Compost Systems Ltd., a Canadian company, sells commercial turners, mixers and screeners and other products that deal with large volumes of compost.
  • Waste Mechanics Limited, a UK-based company providing mechanical solutions to waste handling and processing, sells machinery for commercial waste processing.
  • TIM Environment Products is a Danish company that sells equipment to deal with organic waste removal. They manufacture and sell shredders, bucket turners, screens as well as a thermal-mechanical composting unit.
  • Accelerated Compost sells a range of manual and automatic continuous in-vessel composting machines. The Rocket®, this company's main product, was developed to provide a small to medium, in vessel composting system, with the object of producing high quality compost in a short time.
  • Worm Firm, a company based out of Nova Scotia sells both composting and vermicomposting supplies, including starter kits, complete composting kits, worms, limestone, worm castings, shredded bedding as well as Lime and soil packets.
  • Woods End Research Laboratories composting supplies section offers compost oxygen test kit and other equipment.
  • Real Goods' compost section lists bokashi recycling systems and other more standard composting equipment.
  • The Composting Supply Store (Solana Recyclers) sells vermicomposting and composting supplies, including redworms, worm and compost bins and relevant instructional books.

    FARM EQUIPMENT

      Cultivators/Weeding Tools

  • Peaceful Valley Farm Supply sells variations of hand weeding tools and is based out of Grass Valley, California. Their tools include cutters, cultivators, rooters, forks, grubbers and jacks.
  • Forever Green Landscaping and Maintenance sells Eco-Weeder tools. Eco-Weeder tools are a chemical free weeding mechanism in which the combustion of liquid gas in ceramic pyroelements reaches temperatures of up to 1,000°C, which, when combined with the heat insulated casing places intense radiation directly on weeds and wind-borne seeds.
  • Garden Shop Online sells a variety of hand tools for cultivating, weeding and raking.
  • Agdealer in Canada has over 27,000 farm equipment listings on their website.
  • No-Till, Reduced Tillage and Conservation Tillage Equipment

  • No- Tillage, Sustainable Agriculture in the New Millenium is a website established by Rolf-Derpsch, a no-tillage consultant. It contains no-till seeding machines for animal traction, small farmers as well as mechanized no-till seeding equipment (primarily in Brazil).
  • The Conservation Agriculture Technology database lists commercially available equipment (for manual, animal or motorized operation) worldwide, including zero tiillage seeders and planters, rippers, rollers, mulch slashers/choppers, straw spreaders or choppers for handling weeds and crop residues or mulch covers as well as equipment for mechanical weeding through a mulch cover.
  • Almaco Products are manufacturers of specialized agricultural research equipment. They offer manufacture two models and grain drills for no-till applications as well as conservation tillage.
  • The Yetter Company manufactures various reduced tillage (and other) equipment and offers information on zone and strip tillage.
  • No-till Farmer equipment links lists over 40 manufacturers of no-till and related equipment.

    SOIL AMENDMENTS and INOCULANTS

  • Home Harvest Garden Supply, Inc. sells products dealing with perlite and vermiculite, earthworm castings, organic enrichment products, soil purification, water retention, shellfish amendments, coco, peat and sphagnum moss as well as pH amendments.
  • Natural Industries, Inc. is a company based out of Houston, Texas and sells Actinovate products that can be used for agricultural, horticultural and turf applications. This site sells Actinovate Soluble, Actinovate Granular, Actinovate Seed Inoculant and Actino-Iron.
  • Circle One Online sells products containing functional nutritionals. This site contains general information about their products, the proper application for it, availability and pricing.
  • HumaTech, Inc. sells both dry and liquid humic acids. These humic acids are meant to break down soil salts, improve nutrient availability, improve soil structure and create a more healthy soil. Their products include A dry, highly oxidized, salt-free, carbon-rich Leonardite, a multifunctional humic and fulvicacid liquid extract, a concentrated liquid fulvic acid extract, MACRO·PLUS ® (8-16-4), NITRO·PLUS ® (18-0-0), and CALCIUM·PLUS ®(12-0-0+12Ca).
  • GeoCHEM, Inc. sells specialty products for civil construction, land protection And soil remediation. Their soil amendment product is Soiloc, or sod crystals, a super absorbent polymer.
  • T and J Enterprises sells a variety of soil amendments and inoculants. Their products include BioVam which contains mycorrihizae, trichoderma fungi, and beneficial bacter. They also sell organic fertilizers, trace minerals and yucca extract.
  • North Pacific Ag Products is a wholesale distributor of agricultural gypsum products. Their products include rock phospate, gypsum, high calcium pelletized lime, dolomite lime, pelletized gypsum, granulated 9-3-7, granulated steamed bone meal, NP organics and testing.
  • BioAg Corporation sells humic and fulvic acid products made by the bioenergenic method. All of their products are safe to use in certified organic farming.
  • Soil Inoculants

  • Bio-Organics sells various versions of both endo- and ectomycorrhizae inoculants.
  • SoilMoist provides mycorrhizal products in several formulations. Retail outlets and on-line catalogues links for gardening products are included.
  • Circle One Online sells organic soil inoculants and amendments. Prosper Nitro Active is a broad spectrum soil inoculant used to keep bacteria alive in the soil. It also contains cultures for feeding the bacteria once they are diluted and come out of dormancy.
  • Natural Industries, Inc. sells Actinovate® Seed Inoculant which contains a high concentration of the unique microorganism Streptomyces lydicus strain WYEC 108. This company is based out of Houston, TX.
  • Biovam® is an inoculant of biologically active and inert materials. It is a growthenhancing root and soil inoculant. Biovam® system includes a combination of 5 species of mycorrhizal fungi and 10 species of other beneficial soil microorganisms.
  • Biocontrol Network sells a variety of mycorrhizal inoculants. Their products include root boosters, growth enhancers and root dip.


  • SOIL TESTING EQUIPMENT

  • ATTRA's Soil Testing Supplies section lists companies selling a variety of soil testing instruments and equipment.
  • Intec Marketing Services offers a variety of soil testing equipment.
  • Tech-Lab Industries, Inc. sells a variety of soil testing equipment.
  • Durham Geo sells a variety of soil testing equipment.
  • Peaceful Valley Farm Supply sells a variety of soil testing equipment.
  • The Solvita® soil-life test kit evaluates soil microbial respiration rate an important aspect of soil quality and an indicator of soil fertility.


  • EROSION CONTROL SUPPLIES

  • Jimboomba Turf Group, an Austrailian company, sells a variety of erosion control products ranging from matting and fencing to soil amendments that are intended to help prevent erosion.
  • Mat, Inc. sells Soil Guard, a hydraulically-applied erosion control product that conforms to the ground and dries to form a bonded fiber matrix.
  • RoLanka sells soil erosion control blankets including permanent turf reinforcement mats, semi-permanent mats, strong temporary mats and temporary mats. The blankets help to prevent erosion, keep seeds in place, support seeding growth and germination.
  • Midwest Geotextile & Horticultural Supply sells a variety of erosion control blankets and fences.
  • SoilMoist sells high molecular weight polymer formulations designed to reduce soil loss and silt loss in furrow irrigation applications. Retail outlets and on-line catalogues links for gardening products are included.

    MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS
  • Pioneer Enterprise in India sells neem and natural products for organic farming, as well as other natural and herbal products in bulk.
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