Our story

We're here to bring soil back to life.

OrganiLock is a family-run Kentucky company on a simple mission: turn tired dirt into living, productive soil, by feeding it the way nature intended.

Feed the soil, and it feeds everything else.
Our mission

Feed the soil, and it feeds everything else.

Most garden products feed the plant and forget the soil. We do the opposite. Everything we make is built to rebuild the living biology beneath your feet: the microbes, carbon, and structure that hold water, unlock nutrients, and keep a garden resilient season after season.

Healthier soil, within anyone's reach.

Living soil, not just fertilizer

Real biology and carbon, not only NPK.

Made in the USA

Formulated and made in Kentucky. Soil Food is OMRI listed.

Family-run since 2007

Founded by Scott and Brenda Laskowski.

Waste, turned to life

We turn overlooked organic material into living-soil nutrition.

From a sawmill problem to living soil.
How we got here

From a sawmill problem to living soil.

OrganiLock began with a very different problem. Faced with mountains of sawdust from the family's first business called Wood-Mizer, founder Scott Laskowski went looking for a better use for overlooked organic material. That search led from clean biomass energy to biochar, and finally to a breakthrough: a way to lock more carbon, and more life, back into the soil. The same instinct still drives everything we make: take what the land would otherwise waste, and turn it back into life.

Years of engineering and testing later, that work became Soil Food, Plant Food, and Refresh, the living-soil line we make today. We engineer and build our own equipment, so we can turn wood and animal waste into soil nutrition in one closed loop, and put facilities where those resources already are. What reaches your garden is simple, honest, and effective.

What we promise

Honest by default.

We tell you what's in the bag.

Real ingredients, named plainly, with nothing hidden.

We feed soil, not just plants.

Healthy biology underground is what keeps a garden going.

We'd rather be useful than loud.

No hype and no inflated promises, just clear directions and products we stand behind.

The road so far

Built over the long haul.

  1. 2007

    Founded as LEI Products by Scott and Brenda Laskowski.

  2. 2008

    Built the BioLiquidator, our first in-house system, turning organic waste into liquid plant nutrition.

  3. 2010

    Developed the Bio-Burner: clean heat from wood waste, with biochar as a byproduct.

  4. 2013

    Built the Biomass Processing System (BPS), drying wood and animal byproducts into the nutrition behind Soil Food and Refresh.

  5. 2018

    Rebranded to OrganiLock, focused on living-soil products.

  6. 2023

    Honored with an AG Innovation Award.

  7. 2024

    Named a Startup to Watch by Louisville Business First.

  8. 2025

    Granted a US patent for our soil process.

  9. Today

    Soil Food, Plant Food, and the Refresh line, backed by the Academy.

A family business, still.
The people behind it

A family business, still.

OrganiLock is run by Scott and Brenda Laskowski and a small team who care about doing this right. We are growers, builders, and problem-solvers, and we use our own products in our own gardens. A second generation now works alongside the founders, which is how we plan to keep it.

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