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Mlc Young Corporation

Monday, January 7, 2013

Wildwood Gardening Entrepreneur Forms Manufacturing Partnership

Looking for a mini-garden concept that can be moved from outside to indoors, and easily changed out seasonally? Some customers of this unique plant container system just gave them as holiday presents to family members.

One might call this a true "Made in America" story. Andy Young, owner of Wildwood-based MLC Young Corporation, just announced his new partnership with Charloma, Inc., in Cherryvale, KS, to manufacture his innovative container gardening planter called "My Little Garden Barrel." The new barrel is a vertical planter with an original "patent-pending" design that contains a central watering system. See related Eureka-Wildwood Patch article when Young introduced it: New Container Gardening System Based in Wildwood "Our intent has always been to keep production of our products here in the U.S., and going with Charloma, Inc.'s facility in southeast Kansas, ensures we are doing just that," said Young. He said Charloma is an ISO-certified supplier …

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

New Container Gardening System Based in Wildwood

Owners of MLC Young Corporation, based in Wildwood, introduce flagship product, the "My Little Garden Barrel" plant container, which is a uniquely designed planter that can hold up to 22 plants in only 4 square feet.

A new and innovative advancement in container gardening stems right from Wildwood. "Our patent-pending design incorporates a specialized center watering tube allowing for even water and nutrient distribution throughout the container," stated Andy Young, president of MLC Young Corporation in a PR Newswire release on Monday.  He said the problem most people have with container gardening is not getting an adequate supply of water and nutrients to the middle of the container where the plant's root system can most effectively function for the overall health of the plant. The start-up of the business and the design of the garden barrel container was inspired by Young's father, Sam Young, who has been an avid gardener for many years. Sam is …

Andy Young

9:39 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Julie, Thanks for posting our news release. We currently do not have any retail location set up here in the St. Louis area. We are hoping to expand to do more wholesale distribution later this year and into early next year. However, anyone wanting to purchase one of our "Garden Barrels" may contact us via our website and we can make arrangements to have them delivered to you. Thanks, Andy Young …   more ›

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