Employees Harvest Rich Bounty From Organix-South\'s Community ...

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BOWLING GREEN, Fla., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- At a time when theaverage vegetable travels 1500 miles from plant to plate,Organix-South employees are harvesting bountiful crops from thecompany's community garden nestled next to their parking lot in agrowing industrial park.
"Right now, the corn is tassling and we're picking green beans,okra, peppers and black-eyed peas," says Dave Haight , the resident electrician and now-gardener. "We've got ginger,basil, rosemary and pineapples growing in the front courtyard andthe bananas are taking off now that it's started raining."
Nearly every employee at the company headquarters is participatingin the project, working as a team in the garden once a week afterwork and taking home fresh vegetables they've helped to grow.
Besides tasty, safe and affordable food, the organic gardendemonstrates two key points, notes Autumn Blum , CEO of Organix-South. "First of all, we're showing people thatgrowing organic vegetables is possible -- even inFlorida where hot,humid summers encourage enormous bugs as well as viral and fungalinfestations," she said.
As the world's largest manufacturer of certified-organic Neemproducts, Organix-South is a major part of the international trendtoward environmentally friendly products. "No one in the US has EPAapproval to market all-natural Neem oil as a pesticide but we areworking with other companies to demonstrate its safety and efficacyso we can earn that approval," Blum said. "In the meantime, wewanted to show people how well Neem works in one of the mostchallenging ecosystems in the country."
Additionally, Blum hopes that other corporations take note of thegarden's success and plant their own community vegetable gardens."The benefits of community vegetable gardens have been proven inurban neighborhoods across the country and we think that impact canbe even more significant in a corporate setting," she said. "Itbuilds a corporate culture that focuses on teamwork, healthy eatingand exercise -- plus it helps our employees save money and minimizetheir carbon footprints."
Organix-South(R), Inc. specializes in organic Neem body careproducts and organic supercritical herbal dietary supplements. Thecompany offers the most complete line of Neem products available,including extracts, oral care, hair care, soap, skin care, petproducts, organic gardening and more. Products are available athealth food stores, pharmacies, yoga studios and other fineoutlets. For information, see http://www.organixsouth.com or 888.989.NEEM.
SOURCE Organix-South, Inc.