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About DIRT WORKS©Read Everything On this Page. I'm Sure You'll Find It Fascinating!
And your apartment too! Here you'll find organic fertilizer, compost, natural pest control, books, natural soaps, natural foods, information, and environmental news and a whole bunch more stuff. Look around here. Enjoy our product listings, environmental links and downloads. I'm sure you'll enjoy your experience. I work hard to keep the web sites up to date and full of helpfull information about the products and trends in the green marketplace. Whether you are a home gardener looking for information about one or two products, or if you're shopping for large quantities for your company, market garden or coop we can accommodate your needs. You will find that this site will take you to http://www.newenglandnatural.com as well as the pages directly within this domain. We now offer such a wide variety of products, they don't all fit on one site, nor are they appropriate for just a gardening site. We have expanded our offerings beyond gardening products to natural foods, natural cleaning and bath products and a whole lot more. We now carry all natural soaps, natural food and gift items for all occasions. The policy here is, to give you the best price possible, year round, with no fancy Promo gimmicks, or sales, except when we have close outs, and to make sure that what we sell is all natural and wholesome. It will take you some time to look around, so, you may wont to book mark the sites so you can get here when you want to. This helps me too because, if you do a search each time, and click the link, it costs me money every time you click. That's what "Pay Per Click" advertising is all a bout. Those links you see get there according to how much we internet folks pay for the key words you choose, and Google, Yahoo, MSN et.al. charge us money every time someone clicks the link. The closer the link is to the top position, the more it costs when some one clicks on them!! I see it as a "Payola" scheme but, that's the way it works for now. Soooo, please bookmark my sites and come here that way, so I can cut my advertising costs and keep my prices as low as possible. Thanks.... You'll probably find something new each time you look here. I test and add new products all the time. The sites have so much on them, you can't see it all at once. Kind of like a good movie! You'll probably notice that, the site's not all jazzed up with scripts and fluffy language. I get a lot of grief from internet design snobs and so called experts about the way my site looks and works, and, some of the criticism is right on. However, some of the changes I will need to make will cost a great deal of money and, as yet, the money for such things isn't there yet. If you have any problems ordering or see a change we could make that would make things easier for you, let us know by filling out the survey at the end of the check out or, drop us a note, emanager@dirtworks.net. I consider all ideas and implement all I can with what I've got. |
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If you're required to meet an organic standard set by your local certifying agency, consult with The Organic Material Research Institute and the USDA and your certifier to find out what they allow. Even if your local certifying agency doesn't presently list a certain product as acceptable, it doesn't mean they won't. Sometimes all they need is a product label for reference to provide you with certification. All the products we sell are natural products which are safe when used as directed. However, this does not mean that you or anyone else won't have a personal allergic or negative reaction to them. Always use good practice by testing small amounts first and observing to see if there are any negative reactions present like, reddened skin, difficulty breathing etc.. Even peanut butter and wool can be cause adverse effects to certain individuals. I'm not big on store bought beef myself! It gives me a belly ache like you wouldn't beleive. Testing first is a good idea for anything you buy that might come in contact with you or your pets no matter what it is or where you buy it. |
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DIRT WORKS doesn't sell a lot of garden bobbles, ornaments and cheap hardware items. That's because, my focus has always been on the soil and what we eat, basically, the basics! I've always felt that if we take care of the soil it will take care of everything else for us. Lots of garden stores, have become more hardware store than gardening stores selling cheap asian made swing sets and stuff that will probably hit the landfill after one year's use or less. My sites try to buck that trend and focus on the business of the soil, and give you the best information and products, to help make your interaction with the natural world, a fun, affordable, safe and sustainable activity. Every now and then, I do find, or make available, a quality item for the outdoors that I feel we can sell with full confidence, that it will last a long time and perform as the manufacturer says it will without coming apart in your hands shortly after purchasing it, and becoming yet another piece of waste in the landfill. We have enough to do around here, without having to deal with all the returns and complaints about broken or missing parts. Frankly, I don't know how other places keep up with that whole mess, along with the bad press that goes along with unhappy customers. |
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Hi, I'm john Meshna As the owner of this company. I have decided to truly embrace the age of digital information. This means, we don't print a catalog. We may be the first, completely online company. I realize that this policy is costing us some amount of business. I get people calling me everyday asking for a paper catalog. They're really let down when they hear the answer, "No, we don't have one." I feel like such a big meany when I say it. Part of this decision is purely pragmatic. Paper catalogs cost huge sums of money to publish and mail out. A cost we could only make up by charging more money for our products, putting some people out of reach. Not only that, products change style and price so often these days that, a paper catalog is obsolete almost as soon as it comes off the press in this business! I add new products to our list almost on a weekly basis. This is something you can't do with a paper catalog. You might see what we had, but, you might miss what we have. There's an environmental side to this policy too. Paper catalogs kill trees. Companies who offer a stable product line say, of plumbing supplies or other technical mediums, which change little over time, are more suited to hard copy presentation. For a company like mine, there would be too much waste and damage to the environment, because of the changing nature of our business climate if we were to print a 40 page catalog every few months or more. One of the biggest online garden companies I know of prints a catalog every month and some flyers in between. That's a lot of dead trees and seems to go against the very ideas I'm trying to put accross to you through what I do here. I recylce every week around here and, I know that half or more of the paper we throw out is catalogs that we don't even have time to read before a new one, from the same company comes through the door! The everage American, uses over 100 trees a year right now. Paper waste takes a staggering tole on our environment, not to mention my back, dragging it all to recycling every week! So, I'm committed to the online market place. If you'd like to have a copy of our goods in hand, print out any page or pages you want from out web sites, anytime you like. Share them with who ever you like. If you really, really want to have a complete copy of everything we have, print every page if you want. From both sites, DIRT WORKS and New England Natural. I know if you did, you'd be amazed at the amount of paper and ink you'd go through. Take that amount and multiply it by say, 40,000 copies, and you'll start to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
Thanks for coming. PEACE, John Meshna |
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