Bob Dahm, Organic Bob Founder
We get this question all the time. “Is there really an Organic Bob?” There really is! And there’s a reason he started an organic lawn care business to help people make their lawns healthier and safer.
Organic Bob’s real name is Bob Dahm. He grew up on a farm in Iowa. While he lived there he witnessed farming transform from a practice based on a love of the land to a profit-only business without respect for people or the earth. One of his favorite memories is the creek that wandered through the pasture of the farm. It was filled with fish and was a perfect place to cool off during a hot Iowa summer. Today the creek is heavily silted and algae-filled from the fertilizers running off the fields. There aren’t any more trout, and the muskrats that used to be everywhere have died off because of the pesticides. Even more tragically, he watched as his Grandfather, Father, brother and many of their farmer friends were diagnosed with cancer and eventually died.
He witnessed first hand what irresponsible use of chemicals can do to the land and to people, so he’s devoted over half of his adult life to the relationship between the earth and its inhabitants. So he started an organic lawn care business 35 years ago as a way to contribute as much as possible to healing it. He’s passionate about this and we’re lucky to have him as our visionary.
Why Bob’s approach is different
Bob is the reason Organic Bob is different from other organic lawn care companies. He’s made it a mission of the company to regenerate the yards of our clients. This involves more than just getting rid of weeds and making the grass green. It requires transforming yards – which takes an investment of time and money to reverse the damage from years – or decades – of chemicals preventing the lawn from getting the nutrition it needs to stay healthy.
In the next few blog posts we’ll go into more detail about the practices we follow. Topics include:
- Why organic lawn care methods take longer
- Compost tea and how microbes work in soil
- Helping pollinators by planting a native garden
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