About us - the Eco way
A quick introducement
Hi there! We are a small family run organic producer of our autochtonous plant with such spectacular quality and yet so humble in its existance. It is our pleasure to offer you organic grown flowers of this plant, with a confidence of its authentic quality as it has served human kind for centuries and hopefully will so for many more.
What differences our flowers is that they are naturaly grown, wild and unpolluted in any way during its establishment. They don't contain traces of 'dirty' fungicides, herbicides, GMO engineered plants, growth regulators or chemicals in any way immaginable. Today's modern pyrethrum industries rely on excessive use of such contaminants that sadly still end up in the final consumer. We repulsively don't do that. That's why we are small but organic certified. Often in our plantation we find wild onions and other edible weeds that makes us a yummy dinner after hard work .. :-) Nice, ha..?
Pure nature, just as pure as the world once was.
Our flowers
Although not entirely defined by it, the insect toxicity value of the flowers are usually measured in their pyrethrins content. In case of bad weather during flowering, the quality sharply decreases.
The pyrethrins content of our cultivated flowers ranges up to 2% There is a substantial quantity of wild unimproved flowers available for sale with an usual average of 0,7%; as wild are still usefull. Special standardization can, of course, be made.
There are several other factors influencing bioefficiency besides pyrethrins content, and we do researches consecutively (for pyrethrins ratios, environmental and nutrition influences, sesamin and hydrocarbon contents, plant seed set and viability, adaptability, compatibility etc..)
We take the best care of breeding and selecting our flowers to make sure that our buyers get the best plant material and satisfaction.
We can provide our customers with a certificate from collaborating Institute where we regularly test our flowers using the scientifically approved methods.
A few trivia ..
Nor many know that 1904. the Panama canal construction was enabled yet only when a complete quantity of USA imported Dalmatian pyrethrum flowers were used to fight off the insect transmitted diseases that killed more than 20000 of the exhausted workers by then?
In 1906., only one case of yellow fever was reported, and until the end of the Panama Canal's construction, there were zero.
And that by summer of 1942. more casualties was inflicted on American soldiers in the Pacific front by malaria than from the actual fightings?
Or that in Amsterdam the public water was in 1948. once more drinkable only after a water decontamination treatment with pyrethrins? No ill effects was ever recorded.
Ever heard of West Nile virus threat? Hopefully not. Los Angeles is regurarly sprayed with pyrethrins to keep the mosquito population in control..
Demeter International certified farms are working according to Demeter standards. According to Demeter production standards, annex 5. chapter 4. it is allowed to use natural pyrethrum.
If farms which are Demeter certified or who are interested in a Demeter certification like to use pyrethrum agent but unsure they can contact me.
Best regards,
Mrs. Ute Bucholski
Demeter-International e. V.
Brandschneise 1
D-64295 Darmstadt , Germany
phone ++49-6155-8469-99
fax ++49-6155-8469-11