About Black Lake Organic Nursery and Garden Store

What We Offer

Black Lake Organic Nursery and Garden Store is a unique, old-fashioned gardening supplies source that offers quality products, low prices, helpful information, and personal service. We're real people here with the real stuff!

B.L.O. Newsletters

Black Lake Organic’s newsletters are written by BLO’s owner/manager Gary Kline. Previously, they came out annually by mail, but are now sent out monthly by email. To receive the monthly emails you may subscribe on-line, or subscribe via email, or at the store.

Some of the older newsletters and other writings, however, may be accessed below. The newsletters provide incredibly useful information pertaining to gardening activities, changes at the store, and new products and offerings. But most importantly they provide insight into the connection between soil fertility and the resulting beneficial health & nutrition effect for humans, animals and plants.

These publications are in .pdf format & can be viewed with free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Why Organic Is Not Enough - 2005 January
Soil Fertility and Human Nutrition - Earth Day 2004 Panel Discussion
Practical Nutrient Management and Its Implication for Nearly Everything
"The Soil Fertility Connection To Nutrition And Heath" -presentation to the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA), Jan. 2004. NTA provides the general public with educational resources to promote healthy living…“As an educational organization, we are dedicated to empowering people to reverse the tragic effects of the modern diet.”
2001 BLO Newsletter
1999 BLO Newsletter
1998 BLO Newsletter

Where We Got Started

Black Lake Organic, or B.L.O., for short, began in the owner’s garage in 1980 as a part-time and seasonal operation selling organic fertilizers and cover crop seeds. We moved into the present store in 1983 and about ten years later began full-time, year-round operation. Today we are the only full-line, all organic gardening store and retail nursery in the South Puget Sound area. Our Success is due largely to the strong interest in environmentally protective and nutritionally healthy gardening on the part of people in our local communities.

Store Hours
We’re open from 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday, closed major holidays.
How to Contact Us
Even though we have been here on the shore of beautiful Black Lake for over 25 years and our best advertising definitely is word of mouth, many local people still do not know we are here. Whether you are local or coming from a great distance, you can find us by going to our Contact Us page to view our map and get directions. Do come by and check us out, or scroll through our website and learn about our B.L.O.O.M. story and the little gold mine that is Black Lake Organic.

Address:
4711 Black Lake Blvd. S.W.
Olympia, Washington 98512
Phone:
(360) 786-0537
Email:
info@blacklakeorganic.com

Picture of the front of Black Lake Organic store