We help customers care for their land by restoring and feeding life in the soil. Our goal is to set up and support a functioning ecosystem that promotes healthy soils, healthy plants, healthy animals and healthy people.We use sustainable, natural methods to do this work. No synthetic fertilizers, herbicides or insecticides are used.
- Are a Texas family-owned for-profit business operating as an LLC;
- managed by 3 full time owners;
- Augment and stimulate life in the soil;
- Are led by extended family who are highly respected knowledgeable managers and employees
- Have offices in Granger/Austin and Houston.
Our Core Values
Honesty and Integrity: We act with honesty and integrity, not compromising the truth.
High Quality Products and Service: We show pride, enthusiasm and dedication in everything that we do. We are committed to selling and delivering high quality products and services.
Creating meaningful relationships: We believe that the relationships we create are meaningful and important for the parties involved.
Willing to learn, teach, and create change: We are excited about opportunities to learn and share our knowledge to create change in our Industry.
Respect for Mother Nature: We respect the earth and the gifts surrounding us and intend to leave the earth better than we found it.
Teamwork: Our team is supportive of each other’s efforts, loyal to one another, and care for each other both personally and professionally.
Belief in Natural/Biological Systems: We believe in a natural and/or biological system that helps to create a functioning ecosystem.
What We Do
Visit your site to assess, test and evaluate soil health and to understand your goals.
Propose soil fertility plans for your approval.
Provide custom blended application services and needed products for your site via your customized program.
Monitor your site both formally and informally at least annually.
Set up on-farm research programs.
Continuously monitor new studies in our industry.
Update our programs continually as we learn from our expanding client base.
Continue to develop products that are used in our core business – liquid applications.
Present merits and methods of managing living soils to interested groups.
Maintain website that informs and presents core concepts of living soil environments and cultural practices needed.
Source and use only high quality ingredients in our custom blends.
Enhance customer networking and marketing by having field days, hosting grazing clubs, and sharing marketing opportunities within the network.
Betsy Ross
Our inspiring founder and head honcho! We don't have space to tell you everything you should know about Betsy, so we will just say she is a force to be reckoned with!
Julie Morrison
Julie has been with Betsy Ross Grass-Fed Beef and Sustainable Growth Texas since 2012. She is our farm manager and amendment mixer. Julie knows how to help, who to help and is always thinking about the animals we have.
Brian Russ
Brian joined Sustainable Growth Texas in 2017 as our Houston office lead. He's the guy to call for commercial projects anywhere in the state!
Hunter Layton
He started working for SGT in October 2010, very near the beginning and is our longest tenured team member! Hunter's primary duties are the residential lawns in Austin but he also works on the farm (master tea brewer!), does ag sprays and commercial jobs. His favorite part of the job is the variety "so i don't get bored doing the same thing every day. I also enjoy being able to work outside."
Clay Zdobylak
One of our Houston based team members! Clay usually works with residential customers, whether inside the city or out in more rural areas. He also treats parks that we maintain regularly, or detention basins for municipal district detention basins and the like. Clay has been with us since late 2015.
Christian Sacra
Christian has been a member of the team since 2019 and works out of the Houston branch. He helps with servicing lawns and commercial clients. He even has been known to help occasionally with ranch jobs as needed. I tend to work with residential customers more than any other type of customer. His previous job was on an organic farm in LaGrange where he did all sorts of things!
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