Patrick/Murray Transition Team Alerted to the Benefits of Soil Remineralization

A paper was submitted by RTE to the Energy and Environment Working Group of Governor Elect Deval Patrick's Transition Team for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An excerpt: "Remineralization is a key strategy from a peak oil and energy perspective. At the recent Schumacher lectures in Great Barrington, Richard Heinberg stated that 37% of the energy budget of the US is for agriculture. We can move from an economics of scarcity (based on petrochemical fertilizers) to an economics of abundance, utilizing the millions of tons of aggregate by-products as an alternative to ...

Agroforestry Project in Costa Rica: Food, Fuels & Income to Sustain Local Communities

Remineralize the Earth is initiating its first international project in conjunction with John Todd, an internationally-recognized biologist and a visionary leader in the field of ecological design, and Ocean Arks International. (more…)

Mr. Natural, Carrot Shaman Bob Cannard

Carrot Shaman Bob Cannard grows the most celebrated designer vegetables in the Golden State. By Christina Waters With its unruly hedgerows of peach trees and musical creek meandering down the mountain, Cannard Farms in Sonoma, California is by any standard a rustic Eden. It was an exuberant endorsement by Greg Steltenpohl, founder of Odwalla juices, that brought me here: "Bob's carrots are amazing--he's a carrot shaman!" Steltenpohl had put his money where his mouth was, retaining Bob Cannard to develop Odwalla's new 65-acre carrot patch, whence flowed the very roots of ...

Bill Neu

Lyons, Wisconsin Six years ago, 2001, I started gardening for the sake of improving my ailing health. I was determined to garden organically for the sake of food purity. Setting out with little knowledge and almost zero experience I had two very disappointing years of only fair yield and relentless insect attack. Disillusioned, I then read up on some organic pest control approaches. Armed with a little non-toxic ammo I achieved less damaged produce. However it cost extra money and time and did not improve yield. (more…)

Ashfield Stone Co.

Ashfield Stone Co. Johanna Pratt 1739 Hawley Rd., Ashfield, MA 01330 (413) 628-4773 (phone and fax) quarry2@aol.com Very fine mica schist dust 80-100 lb. bags

EarthWorks

EarthWorks(TM) 1500 Uhler Road, Easton, PA 18040 Phone: 1-800-732-TURF eworks@soilfirst.com www.soilfirst.com EarthWorks is a manufacturer of a complete line of Natural Organic fertilizers, soil conditioners, bio-stimulants and a supplier of rock minerals.

Fertrell

P.O. Box 265 Bainbridge, PA 17502 Phone: 717-367-1566; Fax: 717-367-9319 www.fertrell.com Distributor of Azomite

Gernatt Asphalt Products, Inc.

Taylor Hollow Road P.O. Box 400 Collins, New York 14034 (716) 532-3371 www.gernatt.com Western New York and N.W. Pennsylvania's Preferred Supplier of Construction Materials with Eight Locations: Our companies have been involved in the sand, gravel and asphalt businesses for over fifty years. Since the original site was opened in the late 1940s, we have grown to include seven sand and gravel processing plants, four hot-mix asphalt plants, one contractor supply outlet, and many sand and gravel excavation sites. Gernatt is proud to be one of the largest sand ...

North Country Organics

Sales POB 372, Bradford, VT 05033 (802) 222-4277 or fax: (802) 222-9661 ncoinfo@norganics.com www.norganics.com Azomite, greensand, phosphate rock Bags to truckloads