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Nature’s Solution Environment Celebration Institute, Inc. (Trademark: Nature’s Solution) Address: 13193 Oro Quincy Hwy. Berry Creek, CA 95916 Website: Phone: 1-530-589-9947 1-530-712-9035 environmentcelebration.com Number of years doing business: 13 Company motto: Where Science and Nature Meet Can you tell us a little bit about your business? Josh, Wayne, and Joey sift the big chunks out of finished compost. We are a non-profit corporation located in Northern California in the Plumas National Forest. We have a 58-acre property where we do research trials comparing test plots with biology added, with no biology added, and with conventional fertilizers. We offer products, online classes, and testing. Dr. Elaine Ingham is our science director and runs the soil foodweb lab testing program and is on the board of directors. I [Dr. Carole Ann Rollins] am president and on the board of directors, and I write books with Dr. Ingham and run the research farm, the online classes, and the certified consultant program. James Eddington is vice-president and runs the Oroville store, warehouse, manufacturing, and marketing and distribution of Nature’s Solution products. We have a warehouse storefront in the town of Oroville at 2330 Bird St. where we manufacture, repackage, and distribute the Nature’s Solution brand of products (Compost Tea, Sea Kelp, Humic Acid [powder], Humate [liquid], Worm Castings, and Mycorrhizal Fungi). We also produce a few other beneficial microorganisms, beneficial protozoa, and bacterial- and fungal-feeding nematodes on a limited basis. We distribute books on the basic of organic growing written by Dr. Ingham and myself. We administer online classes taught by Dr. Ingham, soil life certification programs, and intensive trainings. We coordinate consultants around the world in a variety of growing situations and countries. groundbreakers 93