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The Balance (or Imbalance) of Nature

Bust of Herodotus (484-426BCE)

A fitting introduction to this controversial topic must, methinks, begin with Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC). He is known as the “Father of History”,  because he was the first to (1) use systematic collection methods, (2) test premises for accuracy, and (3) construct historical expositions in [...]

Insect & Spider Monitoring

Low-Profile Insect/Spider Monitor

To determine how balanced the ecosystem inside your home is, you can monitor that area for the presence of insects and spiders.

By determining what kinds of spiders and insects are living inside your home–and especially by finding out whether any of them are harmful (like brown recluse spiders), you can tell a [...]

OrganiScent™ Essential Plant Oil Blend

OrganiScent™ Essential Plant Oil Blend, in 7 oz. Bottle

OrganiScent™ Essential Plant Oil Blend is available in individual 7 ounce bottles and and in four-packs (28 ounces total). OrganiScent™ Essential Plant Oil blend contains Cedar, Rosemary, Cinnamon Leaf, Corn Mint, and Eucalyptus Lemon essential plant oils in a base of Jojoba Oil, Phenethyl [...]

OrganiMulch™ 5128 Granular Habitat Modifier and Macro-Cleanser

OrganiMulch™ 5128 Granular Habitat Modifier, in 5 gallon box

OrganiMulch™ 5128 Granular Habitat Modifier, Close up view of Granules

OrganiMulch™ 5128 Granular Habitat Modifier and Macro-Cleanser is available in 5 gallon and 1 gallon boxes. OrganiMulch™ formula 5128 contains a blend of Cedar, Rosemary, Cinnamon Leaf, Corn Mint, Eucalyptus Citriodora, and d-Limonene [...]

OrganiWash™ 5129: Natural Plant Oil Cleanser

OrganiWash™ 5129 Natural Plant Oil Habitat Modifier

OrganiWash™ 5129 Natural Plant Oil Cleanser is available in 5 gallon pails and 32 ounce bottles. OrganiWash™ formula 5129 contains a blend of Cedar, Rosemary, Cinnamon Leaf, Corn Mint, Eucalyptus Citriodora, and d-Limonene essential plant oils in a base of Jojoba Oil, Phenethyl Propionate, and food-safe White Mineral [...]

Definition: What is a Pesticide?

pes·ti·cide: Function: noun Inflected Form(s): -s Etymology: pest + -i- + -cide: an agent (as a chemical) used to destroy a pest : ECONOMIC POISON Source: Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (3 Aug. 2010).

Webster’s definition seems, on the surface, quite satisfactory. A pesticide is an agent–such as, for example, a chemical–that is used to [...]

Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)

Cinnamomum verum, as illustrated by Franz Eugen Köhler, in his Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und kurz erläuterndem Texte, published in 1887

The cinnamon plant (Cinnamomum verum) is a diminutive evergreen tree in the Laurel  (Lauraceae) family. This family contains some 55 genera and upwards of 4,000 species.

These are distributed throughout the world, but [...]

Essential Plant Oils

 

Historical & Current Uses

          essential oil: Function: noun: any of a large class of volatile odoriferous oils of vegetable origin that impart to plants odor and often other characteristic properties, that are obtained from various parts of the plants (as flowers, leaves, or bark) by steam distillation, expression, or extraction, that are usually mixtures of compounds [...]

Pure Natural Products, at your Service...

OrganiServe exists to study and  evaluate the properties and uses of pure natural products such as essential plant oils, mineral oils, cedarwood meal, corncob meals and grits, herbs, and spices.  Besides offering these to our clients and customers in their natural states, we combine them in novel ways to produce natural habitat modifiers that can [...]