Lawn care goes green: Business touts soil-building benefits of organic fertilizer

Adam Mund

Adam Mund is owner of Mund Organic Solutions, a lawn care business that uses an organic fertilizer formula of his own making. Dave Olson / The Forum

Fargo -- Adam Mund minored in microbe biology at Concordia College.

What he learned came in handy a few years ago when Mund, who was working construction jobs at the time, decided to mix up a batch of organic fertilizer for his yard.

The formula worked wonders.

So much so that a relative suggested he turn his organic brew into a business.

Mund did just that and this spring marks the third growing season for his lawn care company, Mund Organic Solutions.

While the company is based in Kindred, many of Munds jobs are in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

The precise formula of his fertilizer is a secret, but Mund said the main ingredient is worm tailings, better known as worm poop.

One advantage of organic fertilizer over synthetic or chemical fertilizer is that it more closely emulates natures processes, Mund said.

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Lawn care goes green: Business touts soil-building benefits of organic fertilizer