New Research Examines Rock Dust’s Impact on Nitrogen Cycle
The nitrogen cycle is perhaps one of the least understood and most complicated of nature’s cycles, especially when basalt is added to the system, according to Rock Dust Local founder Tom Vanacore.
He adds, this makes it a topic worthy of further investigation. Vanacore notes scientists in the U.S. Midwest have observed changing nitrous oxide levels when NPK and basalt were spread across conventional farms, indicating rock dust does interact with the nitrogen cycle.
“They looked at water and saw an increase in nitrate concentrations in the bio-water. This is out in ...
Cannabis to the Rescue: Flowering Herb Offers Effective, Economic Means of Capturing CO2
Equinox Farm's Ted Dobson showing the soil where cannabis will be grown.
Cannabis may very well be the ‘drug of choice’ in terms of organically sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide through agricultural production, aided by the highly-effective, natural solution that is rock dust remineralization.
“I’ve been fascinated with remineralizing for decades,” says Ted Dobson, general manager and farmer-in-chief at Equinox Farm near Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts. With the help of some rock dust, the New England horticulturalist sees cannabis ...
University of California receives $4.7M to Study Carbon Sequestration with Rock Dust, Compost and Biochar
An exciting new consortium led by the University of California, Davis, and the UC Working Lands Innovation Center is setting out to find new ways of taking excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere using Nature’s best resource — soil.
The multipartner consortium has received a $4.7 million grant from California’s Strategic Growth Council to research and study the use of soil amendments in carbon sequestration.
Carbon sequestration is the process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it as a fixed molecule in a carbon sink, such as soil, oceans ...
Soil Remineralization Shapes Yields and Elevates Food Nutrition: An Interview with Philipp Swoboda
Philipp Swoboda grew up with a forest bordering his family’s hillside home in Austria, which he believes contributed greatly to his early love of nature. Throughout his upbringing, being in and around nature was essentially the norm. Although he lived on the outskirts of an urban area, Philipp recalls his passion for exploring the forest and seeing wildlife in its natural habitat.
Fast forward a couple decades and Philipp’s passion for nature continued with his obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in environmental system science, course-heavy in geography, and then ...
Una Visita a la Granja de Frutas Orgánicas Regenerativas de André Leu en Queensland
“Cuando Leu compró su granja de 150 acres hace 20 años en la región de Daintree, en el norte de Australia, la tierra se había degradado y la selva tropical nativa había sido destruida. Sabía que la mayor parte de la propiedad valdría mucho más si la devolvía al bosque primario natural, así que eso fue lo que hizo. Hoy, 100 acres han sido devueltos a la selva tropical y él cultiva más de 100 especies diferentes de frutas tropicales en los otros 50 acres ".
–- Anna Lappé, escribiendo para Civil Eats
Se han desarrollado métodos para regenerar ...
Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship by John Todd
Ecosystem restoration pioneer John Todd begins his new book Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship with “I am writing this book based on the belief that humanity will soon become involved in a deep and abiding worldwide partnership with nature. Millions of us will commit ourselves to reversing the long legacy of environmental degradation that threatens to destabilize the climate as well as the great ecologies that sustain life on Earth. We must develop a vast stewardship initiative, which will become the great work of our ...
How Volcanic Rock Dust Can Save Tropical Soils
Basalt powder — mere volcanic rock dust — is proven to restore soil fertility and accelerate tree growth in Panama’s impoverished tropical soils, and it can work elsewhere.
In Chapter 17 of Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase, esteemed biogeochemist Thomas J. Goreau and his colleagues highlight a simple, cost-effective method with revolutionary implications — one with the power to increase productivity of sterile tropical lands, thus reducing further deforestation by local farmers in ...
Vida a Partir de la Roca: Fertilizante Orgánico EcoStone Cambiando el Paisaje de la Agricultura ‘Naturalmente’
Guido A. López Cárdenas con un cultivo de uvas de mesa en España cultivadas con EcoStone.
EcoStone es un fertilizante mineral que no solo cumple con los criterios más estrictos de la agricultura orgánica, sino que también promete aumentar significativamente la productividad de los cultivos y la densidad de nutrientes para alimentar el creciente apetito de una población.
Con 92 elementos naturales que devuelven nutrientes clave al suelo, la composición de EcoStone se disuelve rápidamente en agua para un rápido enriquecimiento del suelo. Además, el fertili...
