It sells garden and lawn supplies, specializing in organic products under its namesake catalog.
The namesake catalog is printed on small, newspaper-like sheets and features "funky DIY photos".
Other gardening catalogs operated include Audubon Workshop, Breck's, Gurney's Seed, Henry Field's, Iseli Nursery, Michigan Bulb, New Holland Bulb, Spring Hill Nurseries, and Weeks Roses, all of which have been acquired from buy-outs of other companies.
[3] Marketing and merchandising offices are located in Ohio, Atlanta, Boston, and Holland, Indiana.
had annual sales of approximately $170 million and employed 400–450 people year round, and close to 1,000 at peak seasonal demand.
The family farm primarily raised livestock 'Homer P. Kinerk and Sons Polan and China Hogs' , but Niles' interest was in horticultural, especially organics.
He worked at Burpee Seeds for a year before really learning the direct mail business at Josten's Publishing Company's library services division.
expanded its product line to include organic alternatives to traditional chemical pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers.
[6] In 1997, the company acquired a failed gardening catalog aimed at bird lovers called Audubon Workshop.
The Foster & Gallagher businesses were integrated, in part, in Lawrenceburg, while the Spring Hill facility in Tipp City, Ohio, [3] has continued to grow through acquisition.
[7] According to the Eugene Register-Guard, the company has "an excellent reputation as a leading innovator" in the organic product market.
[15] In 2013, it won a Green Thumb Award for its Strawberry Pyramid Grow Tub for maximizing sun exposure in tight spaces.
Its "Heaven Can Wait" blackberries won for being high in antioxidants and two of its persimmon breeds shared an award for pushing the harvest date forward, limiting pest exposure.