LOVELAND, CO — Agrium Advanced Technologies, which relocated its headquarters here in the summer of 2009, donated more than 500 lbs. of earth-friendly fertilizers to two Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) Day of Service projects in the region. The company will also will provide 30 volunteers to help the High Plains Environmental Center(HPEC) restore natural areas in northern Colorado with native plants.
“It is important for our company and our employees to support actively environmental initiatives that safeguard our watersheds and protect the environment in our own backyard,” said Andrew Mittag, company president. “Agrium is focused on sound practices that sustain the environment. Agrium Advanced Technologies, a division of Agrium, develops the most technologically advanced environmentally sound products.”
The 30 volunteers from the company will join HPEC on Earth Day, April 22, 2010, to transplant 10,000 native plant seedlings into 4-in. pots at the Center’s native plants nursery. In August, these seedlings will be transplanted to the Center’s 275 acres of open space.
“Their support of our Earth Day program speaks to the synergies between HPEC and Agrium Advanced Technologies,” said Jim Tolstrup, HPEC executive director. “Both organizations are committed to protecting our wetlands and watersheds.”
The Colorado Association of Lawn Care Professionals (CALCP) received 400 lbs. of the company’s Duration CR Spread it & Forget it controlled release fertilizer to use in a landscape restoration project at Riverside Cemetery in Denver. CALCP will refurbish the landscape with native grasses suitable to the dry Colorado climate, since the cemetery has had no supplemental water since 2003. Agrium Advanced Technologies also donated 100 lbs. of the product to the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University for its PLANET Day of Service project in Ft. Collins.
“Supporting other local organizations that share our environmental vision and our commitment to public service, like HPEC and other PLANET members, is just one way that Agrium Advanced Technologies gives back to the northern Colorado community,” added Mittag.
