Drawing upon three generations of research and innovation in agriculture development, specifically in cotton and cottonseed, Andy Ellis founded Mulch & Seed Innovations, LLC™ in 2003 in an effort to capitalize on cotton's natural strengths as a foundation for hydromulch and other landscaping products.

Cotton is naturally porous, absorbent and easily biodegradable. In theory, Andy reasoned, those characteristics made it a perfect foundation for nurturing seed and controlling erosion in the many current and burgeoning landscaping applications. So with a team of USDA agricultural researchers and the research muscle of Cotton Incorporated behind him, the theory was put to work.

After years of product development and testing in all possible weather conditions and at varying degrees of slope, the proper ingredient mix was formulated and a new family of cotton-based landscaping products was launched. To date, that includes GeoSkin® cotton hydromulch and Mulch & Seed's premium product marketed under the brand name Hydra CX2™ high-performance cotton hydromulch, and now distributed by North American Green. Research continues and additions to the Cotton GeoPhillics™ brand of cotton-based seed nurturing and soil stabilizing products are being developed for manufacture by Mulch & Seed Innovations.

Commercial and residential development as well as highway and road construction (Department of Transportation) continues in all areas of this country under an increasingly challenging set of environmental and ecological regulatory parameters. Consequently, the efficacy of the products we use to address these challenges is as important as the issues that present them. Cotton provides critical opportunities in these areas. It is our intent to capitalize on these opportunities for the benefit of this generation of conservation-minded contributors and many to come.

Based in Centre, Alabama, Mulch & Seed Innovations is dedicated to producing high quality cotton-based erosion control products that benefit not just the end-user, but the domestic cotton grower and ultimately, the environment.