A stack of square pine straw bales in a longleaf pine forest

Raked by hand in the woods around Lyons since 1989.

Georgia Pine Straw is a family business in Lyons, Georgia. We rake longleaf straw from managed forests around Lyons, bale it, and ship it ourselves, by the box, the pallet or the trailer load.

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  • 1989the year we started in Lyons, Georgia
  • ~1Mbales shipped a year
  • 700trailer loads a year
  • 48states we ship to: all but Alaska and Hawaii

Our story

Georgia Pine Straw has been a family business since 1989. We work out of Lyons, in Toombs County, Georgia, where longleaf pines drop a fresh layer of needles every year.

We rake that straw by hand from managed forest floors and press it into bales. No trees are cut to harvest it, and the same forests keep producing year after year.

We sell it ourselves, too. There is no broker between our woods and your beds, which is how we keep bales in stock all year and keep the straw the same from one load to the next.

Our bales go to homeowners a few at a time or 30 to a pallet, to golf courses like TPC Sawgrass and Augusta Country Club, to school systems and campuses, and to landscape yards and garden centers by the trailer load. That adds up to about a million bales and close to 700 loads a year, shipped across the lower 48 states.

Why pine straw

Pine straw has been the everyday mulch across the South for decades, in flower beds, around trees, and on commercial grounds. The reasons are practical.

  • Renewable. Pines shed their needles every year. We rake what falls, so no trees are cut for it, and the same woods are raked again the next season.
  • Protects the soil. The needles knit into a loose mat that lets rain through, slows evaporation, and insulates roots: cooler in July, warmer in January.
  • Fewer weeds. A full layer shades the soil, so weed seeds get less light, and straw does not bring weed seed into the bed the way some wood mulches can.
  • Fewer pests. Needles dry fast after rain, so a straw bed is not the damp hiding place wet mulch can be.
  • Less upkeep. Straw breaks down slowly and stays put on slopes and in hard rain instead of floating out of the bed. A light top-up each year keeps a bed full and brings the color back.

A standard box covers 150 square feet or more, and dyed pine straw adds a richer color from a non-toxic colorant.

From the woods to the yard.

Raking, baling, and loading in Lyons, and the beds the straw ends up in.

A Georgia Pine Straw crew member raking a fresh bed of pine straw

Three ways to buy.

Order online, call for a trailer load, or have our crews lay it for you near Lyons.

Wide pine straw beds around young trees in front of a craftsman house

By the box or pallet

Natural or dyed longleaf, in standard boxes by parcel carrier or pallets by freight.

Boxes in 3–7 business daysPallets in 5–10
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The open back of a trailer stacked full of square bales of longleaf pine straw

Wholesale pine straw

Dry-van trailer loads for golf courses, school systems, landscape yards, and garden centers across the lower 48 states.

~700 round bales a loadOver 6 pallets
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A crew member spreading longleaf pine straw with a pitchfork beside a brick house

Pine straw installation

Our crews measure your beds for free, quote it, lay it, and clean up after, within about 90 minutes of Lyons.

Within ~90 min of LyonsFree on-site measure
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Guides

How much to order, how to lay it, and how to keep it looking right.

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Pine straw beds with ornamental grasses at the entrance of a school building

Order from the people who rake it.

Our straw ships from Lyons to the lower 48 states, in boxes or on pallets. Trailer loads and installation are quoted by phone.

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