Willamette Organics' Organic Land Care Services


Willamette Organics does not design or build landscapes. Nor do we perform routine landscape maintenance. We work directly with site owners or with their landscape professionals to build a foundation for easy organic land care. This involves site mapping, soil testing, application organic fertilizer and compost or compost tea. Once optimal soil fertility is achieved, landscapes can be maintained with low impact practices. That means, among other things, reduced fertilizer and water use as well as less frequent watering and elimination of all synthetic inputs.

LandManagerTM Program

A comprehensive landscape Organic Transition and Integrated Pest Management program that qualifies the site for Oregon Tilth Accredited Organic Land Care status. Willamette Organics works with the site landscape manager to implement the program, tracks the site inputs and program progress, generates annual site assessment reports and provides integrated pest management supervision. To learn more about this program, call 1-877-432-6249 or email jim@willametteorganics.com.

Organic Transition & Fertility Management

The program focuses on soil restoration to achieve optimal natural fertility. Sites are mapped and measured, and soil chemistry tests taken. A specific granular soil conditioner/fertilizer blend is prescribed and compost tea applications are provided.

Residential Landscape Services 

Willamette Organics Residential Land Care Service utilizes all organic products in a program designed to improve landscape plant and lawn performance by optimizing the soil condition while directly supporting your landscape plantings. We offer the following services and programs to our clients.

Seasonal Booster Sprays

There are three seasonal formulations of our compost tea booster spray. The winter spray is designed to provide beneficial soil microbes and microbial nutrients. These are applied at a time when the soil organisms are in mostly dormant form. As the soil warms up in the spring, these resources will be there to help activate important symbiotic plant-soil processes.

The spring booster spray is designed for foliar application. It offers plants a protective coat of beneficial microbes along with essential nutrients and natural plant growth promoting substances that provide protection and direct nutritional supplementation at a time when your plants are entering their vegetative growth phase.

The fall booster spray is designed to help prepare both the soil and landscape plants for the oncoming winter. Plant hardening silicates are added to a fungal dominated compost tea to improve soil digestive processes and help harden plants for overwintering.

FiveStar Organic Fertility Management

The FiveStar Program combines our three seasonal compost tea booster sprays with two Willamette Organics General Purpose Organic Fertilizer sprays. These sprays, applied once in early summer and once in late summer offer a nutritional boost to all plants and turf for a complete organic landscape fertility management protocol.

Organic Foundations Program

The surest way to get your soil into optimal condition is through soil chemical balancing. The Organic Foundations program utilizes a 21 point soil chemistry analysis to formulate a custom granular organic soil conditioning blend designed to optimize your soil for organic fertility management. The program includes site mapping, soil testing, granular amendment recommendations and two compost tea booster sprays. Site mapping identifies areas (zones) of the landscape with significantly different soil conditions or plant nutrient requirements.

Soil Testing with Recommendations

Similar to the Organic Foundations program, but without the support of compost tea booster sprays. Site mapping and soil testing afford the home owner or landscape contractor with information critical to efficient organic landscape construction and management. Often, this service is the first and most critical step for a successful transition of organic land care.

Plant Health Care & Soil Injections

Plant health care services include foliar spray and root injections with all organic growth stimulants, plant immunity boosters and beneficial microbes. This service is excellent for poorly performing trees or woody perennial plants.

Program Price Sheet*

Seasonal Booser Spray Program Pre-pay $295 per year
FiveStar Organic Fertility Management Pre-pay $395 per year
Organic Foundations Program (2-zones) $495
Soil Testing and Soil Balancing Recommendation (1-zone) $195
    – Additional Zones $125 each
Plant Health Care & Soil Injections $50 per 100 sq.ft.**

*Seasonal Sprays and FiveStar Service prices shown are for lot sizes up to 5,000 square feet for spray applications. For spray areas over 5,000 square feet add $10 per 1,000 square feet per application.

**Plant Health Care & Soil Injection site minimum charge is $100.