December 11, 2023 7 Common Houseplant Ailments & How to Fix Them 7 Common Houseplant Ailments & How to Fix Them Winter weather and long nights mean changes for humans, animals, and plants. Including our houseplants!  If you love your houseplants, seeing them covered in mildew, yellowing, infested with spider mites, or dropping leaves can be a huge bummer. And not knowing what’s wrong or how to help them can stress out any plant parent. Luckily, understanding the signs of common houseplant issues just takes a bit of attention and treatment can be simple. Should you ditch a plan ..read more

November 22, 2023 10 Unique Seed Varieties We Can’t Wait To Grow in 2024 10 Unique Seed Varieties We Can’t Wait To Grow in 2024 Thinking about 2024 garden planting? So are we! Now is the time to sit down with your garden journal and plan your fabulous 2024 growing season. Why not add some new varietals amongst your traditional heirlooms and perennials?  Here are some of our favorite new and noteworthy plants that are cropping up this year. Growers, researchers, and seed breeders are always developing new seeds for flavor, sustainability, nutrient makeup, and appearance, and we’re alwa ..read more

October 16, 2023 How and Why to Use Blood Meal in Your Garden 10 Unique Seed Varieties We Can’t Wait To Grow in 2024 Thinking about 2024 garden planting? So are we! Now is the time to sit down with your garden journal and plan your fabulous 2024 growing season. Why not add some new varietals amongst your traditional heirlooms and perennials?  Here are some of our favorite new and noteworthy plants that are cropping up this year. Growers, researchers, and seed breeders are always developing new seeds for flavor, sustainability, nutrient makeup, and appearance, and we’re always interest ..read more

November 9, 2023 Houseplants and Pets Living in Harmony Houseplants and Pets Living in Harmony It’s a conundrum many an interior designer, veterinarian, and pet owner has faced: Can houseplants and pets coexist without destroying one another? The answer? Absolutely, yes! It may take a little planning, some research, and perhaps a home decor adjustment, but these beloved companions can live harmoniously in any home. Both houseplants and pets add so much to our home lives: companionship, beauty, and fun. Yet a curious cat or dog who loves to dig can mess up your curated plant collection pret ..read more

October 25, 2023 5 Earth-friendly Ways to Use Halloween Pumpkin Guts 5 Earth-friendly Ways to Use Halloween Pumpkin Guts It’s pumpkin carving time! But what happens after pumpkins are carved, displayed, and start to rot? Just like all other food “waste,” when pumpkins end up in a landfill, they generate greenhouse gasses that don’t belong in our atmosphere in excess. Not only that, their capacity to regenerate healthy soil is halted, because they’ve been removed from nature’s powerful decomposition cycle. There are plenty of ways to make sure that doesn’t happen.  After Halloween is o ..read more

October 16, 2023 How and Why to Use Blood Meal in Your Garden How and Why to Use Blood Meal in Your Garden When it comes to maintaining a thriving garden, you might already be using traditional fertilizers like our All-Purpose Plant Food, blends created for specific gardening projects like our Annuals & Perennials Foods, or single-ingredients products like Prilled Sulfur. But have you tried using Blood Meal? Spooky season is the perfect time to talk about this awesome supplement. It’s a sure-fire boost for all those fall crops and heavy feeders, and should be applied twice a year: once ..read more

September 27, 2023 Living Our True Organic Sustainable Values Living Our True Organic Sustainable Values Sustainability is woven into everything we do at True Organic, from the foundation of our mission to the powerful natural ingredients in each bag. Every year, we advance our carbon-negative trajectory by delivering millions of pounds of enriching carbon to agricultural soils.As a 20-year-old family owned company with deep roots in organic agriculture, we’ve always had an eye on what “sustainability” really means — and what it means to be in the business of planetary health. What’s certa ..read more

August 28, 2023 The Love of Gardening with Instagram Creator & DIY Garden Educator Cassandra Smith The Love of Gardening with Instagram Creator & DIY Garden Educator Cassandra Smith Have you ever wondered what it’s really like to be an Instagram gardening influencer? We sat down with Garden Educator Cassandra “Cass” Smith aka @gardentotablewithcass to find out — and it turns out it’s more about the love of gardening than anything else!  Cass is a talented content creator, DIY garden education coach, and was one of our first Instagram friends! And she’d been a steadfast suppor ..read more

August 4, 2023 Succession Planting: Maximize Your Garden’s Potential with Continuous Harvest Succession Planting: Maximize Your Garden’s Potential with Continuous Harvest Do you want to maximize your garden’s yield, grow a wider variety of crops, and reduce wasted food? You want to try succession planting! Extend your growing season and grow more food with succession planting: staggered planting for extended harvest opportunities. With just a bit of extra planning and time in the soil, you’ll be cashing in on bountiful garden harvests from spring into late fall. Let’s check out how success ..read more

July 25, 2023 Homegrown Sponges: Growing Loofah in Your Garden Homegrown Sponges: Growing Loofah in Your Garden Forget about neon-colored, plastic bath sponges that never biodegrade! Scrub yourself clean with an organic, all-natural, biodegradable loofah that you grew in your home garden.  You’ve probably used real plant-based loofah, but perhaps you didn’t know they’re actually the fruit of a viney vegetable plant related to squash and melons. Homegrown loofahs make for wonderful body care accessories, household cleaning tools, and more — all completely biodegradable and renewable. A ..read more