Happy Small Business Week, Portland. We know small businesses are the heart of our community, so earlier this year, we asked local small businesses to tell us about themselves. They delivered.

We’ll be shining the spotlight on a few of PDX’s small businesses this month, starting with Pro Time Lawn Seed, an alternative lawnscaping company that launched in 1979 with the intention of helping Portland-area homeowners create beautiful outdoor spaces that benefit the local ecosystem.

Here’s how Pro Time Lawn Seed would describe its business.

Tell us about yourself.
[We're a] home/garden shop with e-commerce website that specializes in eco-lawns, eco-meadows, wildflowers and Pacific Northwest native seed mixes.

What’s unique about the small business scene in Portland?
Trend-setting and eco-conscious, Portland customers help unique businesses like ours test and develop new products that everyone wants...eventually!

Pass the mic. What other small business in town should everyone know about, and why?
Imaginary Authors, a fragrance company--just a unique combination of scent, memory and story. Hard to describe!

When someone visits your small business for the first time, the one thing they have to do, see, or try is _____.
Fleur de Lawn, a flowering and self-fertilizing eco-lawn with pink and white lawn daisies. Gorgeous!