American Chestnut Revival
American Chestnut Revival
THURSDAY AUGUST 7, LOUIS MAY, an elder environmentalist in the upper Hudson Valley, drove me 70 miles to see a tree he has watched and measured for 35 years. Lou’s tree is in dense forest on a steep slope at the south end of Schoharie Valley. Its 18-inch dbh trunk isn’t impressive for that forest. Actually, it’s a midget compared to its mighty ancestors—but these days, any American Chestnut is rare. This one is a giant and an elder.
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Earthworms and Bacteria Enjoy a Symbiotic Relationship with Rockdust
Earthworms and Bacteria
Enjoy a Symbiotic Relationship with Rockdust
Each organism has a role and occupies a niche. In fact, shown by the Russian ecologist, Gause, about 30 years ago that each niche has only one organism with its specific food. If another organism is introduced, it either gets wiped out or creates its own micro-niche by living symbiotically with the first, for example, by using the waste matter of the first organism as food.
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The Greening of the Nevada Prison System
The Greening of the Nevada Prison System
The Greening of the Nevada Prison System project is a pilot program that intends to develop sources of woody biomass feedstocks for conversion into biofuels, biopower, and biobased products through a comprehensive program that advances the use of fast growing trees in enriched soil conditions along with better forest/woodlot management. The economics of this integrated system are enhanced by innovative production systems, low cost labor including prison inmates, and creative technologies such as remineralization.
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Swedish Recognition for SEER Rockdust Magic
Swedish Recognition for SEER Rockdust Magic
The fast growing popularity of the soil remineralizing SEER Rockdust has spread across the North Sea to Sweden.
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Restoring Our Earth to Vibrant Health
Restoring Our Earth to Vibrant Health
While many socio-ecological problems have worsened over these 30 years, it appears that an ever higher percentage of our 6.6 billion population is waking up to the need to transform our ways of living, to truly go “green,” to make peace with the Earth and ourselves, to end the “war on Terra.” This Terra, the beautiful living Earth of which we are an essential part, needs each of us to become conscious contributors to personal/planetary healing. You are needed and invited and welcomed! Here are some views from my perspective ...
Ocean Arks Carbon Sequestering Project: A Forest in Costa Rica
Agroforestry Project in Costa Rica: Food, Fuels & Income to Sustain Local Communities
By John Todd
Project manager William Turley showing one year old Jatropha fruit
Almost a year ago we embarked upon a long hoped for dream. Our Costa Rica based colleagues and partners, long term New Alchemist William Turley and his green- thumbed wife Angie Sanchez are planting trees on their land on the deforested lower slopes of the Volcano Miravalles in Guanacaste. Our plan is to replace formerly forested, overgrazed grasslands there with a working landscape of ...
Forests of Champions
A Conversation with Tree Farmer David Milarch Who Sees New Hope in Old Giants.
By David Yarrow
Christmas Eve, 1996, I interviewed David Milarch, founder of the Michigan Champion Tree Project. Tall, bearded, with stout limbs and a thick trunk, he looks like a latter day Paul Bunyan. Or a full size chestnut tree in flesh and blood. But his lumberjack physique is dwarfed by his immense ideas - and his ardent exposition of them. However, the Paul Bunyan figure interrogating me is no lumberjack yelling, "Timber!" His vision is to grow, not cut trees - to renew, not remove, ...
The Eco-Logic of Vermiculture
Earthworms and Bacteria Enjoy a Symbiotic Relationship
By Uday Bhawalker
Each
organism has a role and occupies a niche. In fact, shown by the Russian
ecologist, Gause, about 30 years ago that each niche has only one
organism with its specific food. If another organism is introduced, it
either gets wiped out or creates its own micro-niche by living
symbiotically with the first, for example, by using the waste matter of
the first organism as food.
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SEA-90
Remineralize Soils to Optimum Elemental Balance
SeaAgri, Inc. introduces SEA-90, a 100% water soluble, natural, non-synthetic, mined mineral fertilizer approved for use by certified organic farmers is avaiable in North America. SEA-90 is a remarkable new product containing 90+ essential elements.
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Revisiting the 1994 USDA Symposium on Soil Remineralization
Soil Remineralization
An Essential Environmental Action
By Frederick I. Scott, Jr.
On May 24, 1994, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Beltsville, MD), the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) (Washington, DC), the National Stone Association (NSA) Washington, DC), and the National Aggregates Association (NAA) (Silver Springs, MD) cosponsored a forum on "Soil Remineralization and Sustainable Agriculture" at the USDA Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, MD. That forum could represent a milestone marking officially-sanctioned efforts to implement long overdue ...
