Welcome to Green Country Agroforestry
Growing the future
About Us
The Oklahoma bureau of tourism defines 'Green Country' as a geographical area that roughly corresponds to the North Eastern corner of the state. It is renown for its lush landscape of forests and lakes. The region receives, on average, 40 inches of rainfall each year - but it was not always so.
Following the demise of the vast bison herds that once migrated across the Great Plains of North America, settlers discovered that the soil in the tall grass prairie was of exceptional quality .. and a booming business was established growing wheat and other cereal crops, with the heaviest farming taking place in Kansas and Oklahoma. From the 1920s through to 1930, everything seemed to be going well - and then the weather patterns changed, drought came to the great plains region, and a period of ecological disaster began that would come to be known as "The Dust Bowl"
In 1934, near the peak of the dust bowl years, a pair of brothers named Carol and Chester Conrad came to Oklahoma, and began work to halt and subsequently prevent the desertification process. They were not alone in this endeavor: Half a world away, a young man named Percival Alfred Yeomans was also struggling to find ways to cope with soil loss and drought. It seemed only natural for farmers working on similar problems to exchange ideas. A long campaign of handwritten correspondence bore fruit: for Carol Conrad, the successful development of the Conrad Farms franchise, and for Yeomans, the basis for his book, "The Keyline Plan", Which he would publish in 1954 with a quote in the dedication "The development and custody of fertile soil is the great responsibility, of the men and women of the land" - paraphrasing Carol Conrad "My job as a farmer is not to grow food. A farmer's job is to build fertile soil."
Two generations later, the scars of the dust bowl era are healing, and the grandchildren of Carol Conrad are still finding ways to work with nature, building fertile soil, and preserving it with trees, just like Grandpa taught us. At Green Country Agroforestry, we continue the mission by offering education, and select offerings of nursery stock to help build soil, preserve soil, and provide sustainable resources for this, and future generations.
Terms and Conditions
This website is owned and operated by Jason Jay Avers, sole proprietor of Green Country Agroforestry. These Terms set forth the terms and conditions under which you may use our website and services as offered by us. This website offers visitors educational resources in the form of blogs and videos, and select offerings of nursery stock to help build soil, preserve soil, and provide sustainable resources for this, and future generations. By accessing or using the website of our service, you approve that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.
I: Privacy Policy
Out of respect for our customer's privacy, we will not share or sell any personal information to any third party.
II: Use of Intellectual Property
The educational resources provided by this website and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of Jason Jay Avers. Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works thereof.
III: Purchases Made Through our Online Store
When buying an item, you agree that: (i) you are responsible for reading the full item listing before making a commitment to buy it: (ii) you enter into a legally binding contract to purchase an item when you commit to buy an item and you complete the check-out payment process.
The prices we charge for our products are listed on the website. We reserve the right to change our prices for products displayed at any time, and to correct pricing errors that may inadvertently occur. Additional information about pricing and sales tax is available on the payments page.
(iii)Rooted Cuttings, Grafted Rootstocks and Seedlings:
Rooted cuttings will conform to the genetics of the specified cultivar and variety.
Grafted rootstocks will conform to the specified cultivar(s) and varieties of their scions ABOVE the graft; rootstocks are selected for hardiness, and may or may not be specified.
Seedlings will conform to the genetics of at least one specified parent, with some degree of genetic variation that is to be expected within the genus.
(iv)Live Plants and Shipping:
Green County Agroforestry guarantees that all plants will be shipped in good growing condition, and accepts no responsibility for damages that might be caused due to events beyond our control.
(v)Organic Growing:
As our plants are grown in a natural environment without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, it is not unusual to find indications of insect predation or minor damage. There may be mushrooms growing in the soil of seedling perennials. Earthworms or their eggs may be present in the soil. These are consequences of growing in bio dynamic soil, and are no cause for concern.
IV: Returns and Refunds
Sometimes, plants fail to thrive out of no fault on the part of either party, and we understand this. If one of our plants fails to thrive under normal growing practices up to six months from the date of delivery, we will attempt to replace it, up to %10 of the order. We may request additional information to help diagnose what went wrong - we want your plants to thrive in their new homes! In the event that a particular item is either temporarily unavailable, or discontinued, we will attempt to provide appropriate replacement(s) through a third party nursery, or provide substitution options of equivalent value.
V: Third Party Fulfilment
In order to reduce overhead, some items available through our online store including apparel, tools, and gardening supplies may be shipped directly from a third party supplier. The supplier responsible for fulfillment of that part(s) of an individual order will be detailed in the product description, where applicable.