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Custom bacteria fuel Wichita company's growth
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Alpha BioSystems Lab Manager Steve Kinal demonstrates the swabbing of a bacteria culture on a petrie dish that will be incubated to promote plant growth for agriculture and gardening.
Posted on Sun, Nov. 06, 2011
BY DAN VOORHIS
The Wichita Eagle
Alpha BioSystems, 9912 W. York, has developed a series of bacteria cocktails to stimulate plants and consume organic waste for farmers, gardeners and industries.
The company has just 13 employees but sees a bright future.
Company president Eric Borland projects sales growth at 1,000 percent over the next three to four years. The company doesn’t release actual sales figures.
About two-thirds of sales are to agricultural users. It markets two related lines of products: Terra-One is applied to farm fields to aid crop growth. Safe-One helps breaks down the massive amounts of animal waste that accumulate at feedlots, dairies and chicken houses…...
Alpha BioSystems Partners with B. Organic.
As the organic community grows, a likely friendship blossoms between Alpha BioSystems and Michele Beschen.
August, 2011- Wichita, KS- Michele Beschen, and the B. Organic team, aligns perfectly with Alpha BioSystems’ THRIVE, the all-natural organic growing solution. The two companies have joined forces to spread the word about how to live an organic lifestyle, and it’s a win-win situation.
The Partnership
Alpha BioSystems is extremely excited to work with Beschen, who brings a welcome female perspective to the ever expanding THRIVE audience. Her outgoing and knowledgeable personality jive well with the energetic message THRIVE sends out to growers across the nation. What’s more, Beschen is very well-known in the organic community for her how-to videos and articles, a showcase which directly reflects THRIVE’s brand and core audience. B. Organic’s how-to material spans from making delicious organic breakfast smoothies, to inventing salvage wine-stoppers, all the way to growing organic veggies.
Beschen and THRIVE have collaborated on various videos about how THRIVE can help maintain an organic lifestyle. These videos will be used for retail merchandising, and national television advertising by both parties.
Alpha BioSystems will introduce Beschen to their audience using promotional collateral, THRIVE’s website (www.usethrive.com) and social media outlets such as Facebook. She will have an increasing presence on THRIVE material across the board, and a louder voice behind THRIVE’s brand throughout the next year.
“Michele Beschen is a direct reflection of the Alpha BioSystems and THRIVE core values and brand. We are very excited to be working with a dynamic team and a personality that can bring the core female audience forward in an authentic natural manner,” said Paul Grimes, Marketing Manager for Alpha BioSystems.
Michele Beschen and B. Organic
Michele Beschen combines the power of creativity with an enthusiastic passion for nature, and expresses it all through nearly every media outlet imaginable. The team at B. Organic has one goal, to reconnect people with their innate desire to live a naturally creative, organic lifestyle. Beschen founded her own company in 2002, called Simply Michele, Inc. (SMI). SMI is a multimedia company on a mission to empower people to explore, express and exchange fresh ideas through rousing content platforms built around originality and grassroots efforts. To date, SMI has produced television shows, written articles, created DVDs, and made appearances on hit shows such as Rachel Ray to iterate the company’s mission.
Alpha BioSystems and THRIVE
Alpha BioSystems is the company behind THRIVE. THRIVE is an all-natural line of products which enhances the biological activity already going on in the soil to make vegetation stronger- faster. The different products include Flower THRIVE, New Plant THRIVE, Turf THRIVE, Tomato & Veggie THRIVE, Tree & Shrub THRIVE, Pet THRIVE, Compost THRIVE, Thatch REMOVER and Aqua-One. Using a proprietary liquid blend of beneficial bacteria combined with the helpful effects of mycorrhizal fungi, THRIVE offers a sustainable solution for vegetative health that works from the roots up- literally. The mycorrhizal fungi in THRIVE attaches itself to the roots of the plant, extending the root system and making the plant more able to obtain food and water from further away. The beneficial bacteria work in tandem with the mycorrhizae to create a stronger plant- one that’s more able to withstand most diseases and requires less watering. It’s all-natural, safe to use around pets and kids, easy to apply and impossible to over-treat.
Veggie Gardening Tips Features Thrive
If you’re not familiar with terms like mycorrhizal, or the idea of using fungi as a soil conditioner, today’s post is an interview with the creators of THRIVE that will shed some light on the importance of maintaining a healthy balance of microbes in the garden’s soil.
Veggie Gardening Tips is a great page to reference full of helpful tips and information
Thrive partners with Mike Liberman the Urban Organic Gardener
A must see web site, check it out. Mike Lieberman uses his site, UrbanOrganicGardener.com, and social media to inspire and empower people to start growing some of their own food and to reconnect with their food source.
Don’t delay in checking this out. You can find Mike’s web site at
Seeing Is Believing - Thrive with mycorrhizal grows bigger plants
Here is our collection of favorite photos and videos showcasing how Thrive has helped their gardens, lawns, trees, and ponds. Keep them coming the growing season is still in full swing.
Our Backyard Homestead Uses & Reviews Vegetable THRIVE
“I do believe that Thrive was very helpful in my garden last year. I did not do any trials of my own but my plants seemed stronger and healthier than in years past. It was enough of a change to convince me to use it again this year. Maybe I will turn one of my growing bags into an official experiment this year.”
Read the whole article here!
Before and after
Vegetable THRIVE helps El Dorado Heirloom Seeds Grow Green
If you are interested in living a more simple, sustainable lifestyle please get to know El Dorado Heirloom Seeds. El Dorado Heirlooms Seeds is offering an All-In-One organic heirloom seed garden kit, which contains 67 heirloom vegetable varieties, including Vegetable THRIVE.
Watch this brief video from Michele Beschen at b. organic as she discusses the El Dorado All-In-One Heirloom Seed Kit. Don’t delay time to get growing the all natural way.
Bowood Farms discusses how THRIVE helps tomatoes
Bowood Farms, located at 4605 Olive Street in St.Louis, discusses growing tomatoes and how Tomato THRIVE can help.
