Osborne Organics

Osborne Organics is not a landscaping contractor a homeowner can hire to do their yard. It is a consultancy and training business built around a proprietary method for transitioning turf from conventional chemical management to organic management, sold to schools, municipalities, private estates, corporations and non-profits, and taught to industry professionals through an online training programme. It is run by Charles 'Chip' Osborne, Jr., a professional horticulturist who describes 35 years in the trade, founded the Organic Landscape Association, sits on the board of Beyond Pesticides and formerly chaired Marblehead's Recreation and Parks Department. The engagement he sells runs in five sequential steps — analyze, prescribe, train, support, promote — with the emphasis on soil science and staff capability rather than on swapping one product for another. The Better Business Bureau still lists the company at 11 Laurel St, Marblehead under Landscape Contractors, with three employees and a start date of January 2015, but assigns no letter grade at all: it states it does not have enough information to rate the business. The company's own website now gives a mailing address in Cape Neddick, Maine, and a different phone number from the one BBB holds. There is no customer review anywhere except a single Google rating, and nothing describes work done on a private home. Because the business sells consulting and professional training rather than residential landscape services, no homeowner-facing services are listed here and no rating is published. A homeowner interested in organic lawn care should look for a local contractor trained in this kind of programme; a school, town or estate manager considering the programme itself should contact the company directly and ask for references from comparable institutional projects.