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For a world of natural "Green" click on The life work of Quality Green Specialists, Inc. is to provide information, testing, and products to homeowners, farmers, ranchers, golf course superintendents, sports field managers, and other decision makers with the goal of helping stop the wide-spread use of toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides which are being used in the increasingly unproductive attempt to grow quality crops and control diseases, insects, and other pests.
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ABOVE: First commercial olive grove in Florida owned by Port Orange Mayor Allen Green, loaded with ripe, black Arbequina olives producing olives for oil, started with testing and consultations by Dana Venrick, President of Quality Green Specialists, Inc., 1639 N. Spring Garden Avenue, DeLand, Florida 32720. These trees were planted only 18 months prior to when this photo was taken! Did you know that all olives are green before they turn black? Photo taken September, 2010. 
ABOVE: Quality Green Specialists, Inc. Plant Nutrition Center, Garden Center & Nursery
1639 North Spring Garden Avenue, DeLand, FL 32720. Shown: Vice President Allen Day in bottom photo taken April 28, 2012.
ABOVE: Dana Venrick, President (left) and Allen Day, Vice President check their new sign installed February 14, 2012. Happy Valentines Day!
LOOK WHAT'S INSIDE - Central Florida's unmatched display of liquid & dry natural
fertilizers & compost - SHOWN: Liquid fertilizer display. QUALITY GREEN SPECIALISTS has liquid fertilizers in quarts, gallons, 2.5 gallons, 5 gallons, drums, and 275 gallon totes. Plus, we have a large warehouse full of Azomite® and other outstanding dry natural fertilizer products. AZOMITE® comes in three formulations: Granulated, Slow Release, and Micronized. This great natural volcanic mineralizer is packaged in 10 pound bags (Granulated only), 44 pound bags, Pallets of 50 bags, and one ton totes. SCROLL ON DOWN FOR A VIEW OF OUR WAREHOUSE FULL OF AZOMITE. To learn more about Azomite go to: http://www.greencropnutrition.com/Azomite.html
Welcome to Quality Green Specialists, Inc. where your agricultural and environmental needs are met with the highest standards of excellence. Our dedicated team of professionals work hard to provide you with the very best, most comprehensive analytical testing and recommendations to give the finest results on your farm, park, golf course, sports turf, or other "green" site. Click on the tabs on the left and discover a whole new world of green sustainable practices.
Mission Statement:
"The mission of Quality Green Specialists, Inc. is to promote with honesty and integrity safe and effective green management practices, with the goal of achieving high quality and sustainable soil, water, turf, gardens, and crops that enhance economic and environmental conditions."
Company Location and Mailing Address:
Quality Green Specialists, Inc.
1639 N. Spring Garden Ave.
DeLand, FL 32720
Driving Directions:
We are located in the beautiful "Tree City" of DeLand, Florida in the northwest part of the city. From Interstate 4, take S.R. 44 toward DeLand to the west. Drive just past the beautiful and historic downtown and turn right or north on Spring Garden Ave. (Hwy. 15-A) and you will find us two miles on the right (east side) at 1639 North Spring Garden Avenue, DeLand, FL 32720 (at the corner of Greens Dairy Rd. on the right). From the south, take U.S. Hwys. 17-92 to DeLand, then take a left on Spring Garden Ave. (Hwy. 15-A). Pass S.R. 44 and we are two more miles on the right. From Pierson and DeLeon Springs, take U.S. Hwy 17 south to DeLand, then bear right on Spring Garden Ave (S.R. 15-A). We are on the left on the corner of Greens Dairy Road and Spring Garden Ave.
Our store hours are 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday - Saturday:
Contact Us Today for Answers
to All Your Horticultural Needs:
Dana Venrick: 386-837-3878 (cell) Fax: 386-753-0945
Email: danavenrick@yahoo.com
Allen Day: 386-747-0567
Email: daylite2@yahoo.com
"Protecting and enhancing nature's soil & water are the foundations of sustainable green practices"
For better plant growth and yields, Quality Green Specialists recommends the incredible natural organic & complete mineralizer Azomite® (OMRI listed for organic certification purposes).
For information about this amazing
OMRI approved natural volcanic mineralizer go to:
http://www.greencropnutrition.com
"Science Working With Nature"
Quality Green's position is that natural and organic products and techniques work better in every way, including economically, and improve the health of the soil as well as the production of plants and livestock. We know that natural and organic inputs improve health and quality of life and that one day nature-based and organic management programs will be the new mainstream rather than "toxic rescue chemistry" that degrades soil and is not sustainable.
Nature knows best. Soil should be improved with compost, natural fertilizers, rock minerals (We believe that Azomite® is the finest quality natural volcanic mineralizer.), and oher natural materials. Extensive unbiased research exists to backup our beliefs and recommendations, and some of that research is sited on our web pages.
BELOW: Allen Green's beautiful olive grove on Jackson Steet in Port Orange in the late Fall of 2011, approximately 32 months after planting. Quality Green's methods work to grow outstanding olives in Florida! Allen harvested his second crop of olives in August, 2011. On the left is Richard Davenport, Independent Representative with Quality Green Specialists, Inc. President Dana Venrick.
ABOVE: Allen Day, VP (right) and Al Manassa admire a new display of fruit trees and vegetables on April 28, 2012.
BELOW: OUR NURSERY has over 25 varieties of fruit trees and fruiting plants. Eat what you grow! Many make great landscape plants as well. How about an edible landscape like at the home of Dana Venrick, who has 17 varieties of edible plants in his landscape.
BELOW: OUR NEW EXPANDED NURSERY has over 25 varieties of fruit trees and fruiting plants.
BELOW: More fruit trees at Quality Green's Nursery at 1639 N. Spring Garden Ave., DeLand 32720. Notice the two large 15 gallon Arbequina olive trees (all the 15 gallon trees were full of olives last fall).
BELOW: Quality Green Independent Representative Richard Davenport (white shirt) introduces olives, fruit trees, our natural fertilizers, and our Premium-blend Compost to visitor's at the "Hatter's Harvest" Farmer's Market at Stetson University in DeLand on February 19, 2012. 
BELOW: Store entrance displays at Quality Green Specialists Headquarters at 1639 N. Spring Garden Avenue in DeLand, Florida.
BELOW: Granulated Azomite® in the warehouse at 1639 N. Spring Garden Ave. in DeLand 32720. We wholesale more Azomite in the southeastern United States than anyone because our prices are so affordable. Based on extensive testing, we find that soils in Florida and the southeast are chronically low in silicon, a key ingredient in Azomite. The silicon in Azomite is readily absorbed by plants as silicon dioxide. Someone needs to help growers produce better, larger, healthier harvests and we are working hard to do that every day with our comprehensive testing and key, hard to find products such as Azomite. We have the gratitude and thanks of so many growers that our hard work is fun!
To learn more about Azomite go to: http://www.greencropnutrition.com/Azomite.html
BELOW: Slow Release & Micronized Azomite® in the warehouse at 1639 N. Spring Garden Ave. in DeLand 32720. To learn more about Azomite go to: http://www.greencropnutrition.com/Azomite.html
BELOW: Totes of Slow Release Azomite® in the warehouse. We have the formulations and packaging to fit your soil improvement needs!
Quality Green makes a unique, all natural, high quality, super growth promoting Premium-blend Compost (with all natural ingredients approved for organic use) and Premium Potting Soil with Azomite®, humic acid, dolomite, and other fine natural/organic ingredients such as kelp blended right in. Our Premium-blend Compost is double composted with added all natural/organic ingredients for complete mineral availability. Our Premium Potting Soil is unique with Azomite® blended right in along with organic fertilizers, humates, compost, and beneficial microbes. Not to mention our own proprietary 3-0-5 Natural Fertilizer with humates, kelp, dried cane molasses, beneficial microbes, and many more natural ingredients approved for organic use.
BELOW: Forty yards of our high quality, super growth promoting, all natural Premium Potting Soil ready to load in bulk or in 32 quart bags. Our compost and potting soil will help you grow the best plants ever.
BELOW: Independent Representative Richard Slaybaugh writing up a sale for another bag of Azomite® in Jacksonville, Florida.
BELOW: Dana Venrick, President of QGS, Inc., holding a bottle of an original product he formulated that we call 3 in 1. It contains 3 of our products in 1 and the usual rate is 3 ounces per 1 gallon of water! The three products in equal parts are Fish Emulsion, Super Hume & Seaweed, and Blackstrap Molasses.
BELOW: Dana Venrick, President of QGS, Inc., explaining benefits of Azomite® volcanic mineralizer with bio-available Silicon as Silicon Dioxide to Titusville Garden Club, April 9, 2012.
BELOW: Dana Venrick, President of QGS, Inc., MC at the 6th Annual Florida Wildflower and Garden Festival, April 24, 2012. Dana was a founder of the first Florida Wildflower Festival held in DeLand in March of 2007. The Festival is held on the 4th Saturday of March every year in Downtown DeLand.