New free mulch ordering website for gardeners

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Marc Liebmann

Location
Campbell, CA
Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share that I launched Mulch2garden with Chad Honl (from Honl Tree Care). This platform initially allows gardeners to order free mulch from arborists, plus 100% of the donations received from gardeners goes towards any arborist fees.

Please check it out for a free trial at https://www.mulch2garden.com


Looking forward to building a strong partnership with the arborist community in a win/win opportunity! Feel free to reach me at marc@mulch2garden.com
thanks,
Marc
 
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When I try to visit the website, I get a rather worrisome warning. Maybe it’s nothing, but it’s scared me off. Just want to warn everyone here/bring awareness to a problem.
 

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Before chip drop got a foot hold here on the island I use to have a list a mile long where I could dump chips for $125 a load. I worked for years developing and marketing this and it just went poof! Now folks act like I’m crazy for selling my chips. I rather dump them at the green waste yard for free than pay money to subscribe to a app to dump for free.
 
evo said:
Before chip drop got a foot hold here on the island I use to have a list a mile long where I could dump chips for $125 a load. I worked for years developing and marketing this and it just went poof! Now folks act like I’m crazy for selling my chips. I rather dump them at the green waste yard for free than pay money to subscribe to a app to dump for free.
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I sure wish we could get paid for dropping chips! There’s a couple places locally that buy them by the semi trailer to process into other products, but unless you have a bin at your shop you have to drop them for free at chip yards or use ChipDrop. The eastern part of our service area all the chip yards charge to take chips, one quoted us $110 minimum per load to take 18-yard loads last week!
 
Reach said:
I sure wish we could get paid for dropping chips! There’s a couple places locally that buy them by the semi trailer to process into other products, but unless you have a bin at your shop you have to drop them for free at chip yards or use ChipDrop. The eastern part of our service area all the chip yards charge to take chips, one quoted us $110 minimum per load to take 18-yard loads last week!
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Start cultivating a market, speak up every time you see a tree or landscape that can benefit from chips. Don’t offer loads for free, as the perception for a free price is ‘waste’. For the nay sayers I show them photos of bare root shire pines that I planted, 8-10 without mulch and one planted where I dumped a few piles and just kinda smushed it around. The ones without grew well, ~10” per year, the one with grew 24-36” per year. That and Linda Chalker-Scott’s website.

It took time, and not every customer works out well for us. I have dump sites within 1/2 a mile from most jobs, and half a dozen within a mile from my house (equipment yard).
 
Reach said:
When I try to visit the website, I get a rather worrisome warning. Maybe it’s nothing, but it’s scared me off. Just want to warn everyone here/bring awareness to a problem.
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Thanks for the note. I believe it was how I created the URL and not anything to do with the website. You should not have the issue now, but I forwarded to my developer regardless so please let me know if there is still a problem.
 
Marc Liebmann said:
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Thanks for the note. I believe it was how I created the URL and not anything to do with the website. You should not have the issue now, but I forwarded to my developer regardless so please let me know if there is still a problem.
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Sorry, but the problem is still there.
 
evo said:
Start cultivating a market, speak up every time you see a tree or landscape that can benefit from chips. Don’t offer loads for free, as the perception for a free price is ‘waste’. For the nay sayers I show them photos of bare root shire pines that I planted, 8-10 without mulch and one planted where I dumped a few piles and just kinda smushed it around. The ones without grew well, ~10” per year, the one with grew 24-36” per year. That and Linda Chalker-Scott’s website.

It took time, and not every customer works out well for us. I have dump sites within 1/2 a mile from most jobs, and half a dozen within a mile from my house (equipment yard).
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Reach,
Appreciate any and all feedback, and agree. My goal is to help create services for arborists that improve productivity so that you can focus on growing the business. This is why we spend time calculating these efficiencies for arborists.

Sounds like you are lucky in terms of the location of nearby dump sites, and maybe they aren't charging you the hefty dump fees. Chad mentioned paying $100+ per load.
 
Reach said:
Thanks for the note. I believe it was how I created the URL and not anything to do with the website. You should not have the issue now, but I forwarded to my developer regardless so please let me know if there is still a problem.
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Sorry, but the problem is still there.
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strange I click on the link and don't have an issue. We'll look into it.
 
Marc Liebmann said:
Sorry, but the problem is still there.
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strange I click on the link and don't have an issue. We'll look into it.
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Reach, Others said they aren't having the issue and I re-typed the link. Are you just clicking on the link? If you type in the url manually does the issue go away? I've run into the same problem personally in the past with other websites when I was working form hotels.
 
Marc Liebmann said:
My developer said https://www.mulch2garden.com shouldn't have a cert issue.
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Get rid of the “s” in “https” and it works. However, it’s then an unsecured site. This site needs a lot more information before I would have any interest in signing up.

ChipDrop, likely your main competitor, puts far more information on their site, including their pricing. It also explains much more about their process, your site leaves tree services signing up pretty much blindly, which will not do you much good with business owners like me who are naturally suspicious as there are so many scammers out today.
 
I say it every time one of these sites comes up. It's not mulch you're providing, it's "green, going-to-smell-like-ass-in-a-few-days-and-really-won't-do-much-but-compete-for-and-utilize-existing-nitrogen-while-it-breaks-down" wood chips. If a gardener is expecting mulch, you may be giving yourself a black eye in your market unless the recipient is fully informed and readily accepting of green wood chips.
 
Reach said:
Get rid of the “s” in “https” and it works. However, it’s then an unsecured site. This site needs a lot more information before I would have any interest in signing up.

ChipDrop, likely your main competitor, puts far more information on their site, including their pricing. It also explains much more about their process, your site leaves tree services signing up pretty much blindly, which will not do you much good with business owners like me who are naturally suspicious as there are so many scammers out today.
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My developer just updated the certificate so it should work with both http and https. Appreciate the feedback as well. More information will be added including the pricing link will be updated. Right now it is free for arborists as part of our 3-month trial, then $19/delivery for one-off orders plus another option (coming). Also, as mentioned all donations from gardeners are passed directly to arborists in the form of free delivery credits.
 
cerviarborist said:
I say it every time one of these sites comes up. It's not mulch you're providing, it's "green, going-to-smell-like-ass-in-a-few-days-and-really-won't-do-much-but-compete-for-and-utilize-existing-nitrogen-while-it-breaks-down" wood chips. If a gardener is expecting mulch, you may be giving yourself a black eye in your market unless the recipient is fully informed and readily accepting of green wood chips.
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yes great point. We are adding pictures and videos so that customers know exactly what they get.
 
Marc Liebmann said:
My developer just updated the certificate so it should work with both http and https. Appreciate the feedback as well. More information will be added including the pricing link will be updated. Right now it is free for arborists as part of our 3-month trial, then $19/delivery for one-off orders plus another option (coming). Also, as mentioned all donations from gardeners are passed directly to arborists in the form of free delivery credits.
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Reach said:
Get rid of the “s” in “https” and it works. However, it’s then an unsecured site. This site needs a lot more information before I would have any interest in signing up.

ChipDrop, likely your main competitor, puts far more information on their site, including their pricing. It also explains much more about their process, your site leaves tree services signing up pretty much blindly, which will not do you much good with business owners like me who are naturally suspicious as there are so many scammers out today.
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Reach- Wanted to provide an update. We fixed the link to the arborist page so now you can see a lot more details about the service. We decided not to advertise a fee for now. First we want to make sure all the services we provide are delivering value then charge a small fee to help maintain the website at some point. I would be interested in talking with you offline about additional services we are looking into. If you are open to discuss please email me back at mailto:marc@mulch2garden.com.
thanks, Marc
 
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