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Newsletter (NL 2025-05) – Common threads through successful Vetiver applications are motivated individuals and communities / VGT showcased at a premier international conference for geosciences

Contents Toggle A 15-Year-Old Case Study Of How Low-Cost Vetiver Grass Technology Can Turn A Fragile Landscape Into A Resilient, Income-Generating Asset.Mukti’s Vetiver Bio-shields: Community-Powered Resilience in the SundarbansHow hard can it be? A case of “self-teaching”Community-led Vetiver adoption slashes...
Jim Smyle
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Newsletter – Vetiver Secrets, Soil Health, Wastewater, Forage (NL 2025-01)

The Secrets of Vetiver. As research is carried out on various attributes and applications of vetiver we are coming to learn how the plant functions and what it can do. A recent Chinese study “Reshaping the microenvironment and bacterial community…

Dick Grimshaw
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Vetiver Grass Technology – Carbon Farming Management – Research – Global Outreach – Feedback (NL 2024-10)

CARBON FARMING FOR FARMERS – MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES “Soil organic matter is the elixir of life” . … Rattan Lal “A healthy soil should contain 2-4% Soil Organic Matter (SOM) half of which is Soil Organic Carbon.” The Potential of Regenerative…

Dick Grimshaw
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The Broken Hydrological (Water) Cycle — and Feedback from Vetiver users (NL 2024-08)

The Broken Hydrological (Water) Cycle. Summer is always a rather slow time for exchanging vetiver information –  a time to relax and reflect.  I have been re-reading Charles Massy’s book “Call of the Reed Warbler” (available from e.Books.com). It makes…

Dick Grimshaw
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The Vetiver System – A Changing Perspective. (NL-2024-05/06)

The Vetiver System – A Changing Perspective When John Greenfield and I introduced vetiver grass hedgerows to Indian Watershed development projects in the 1980’s the objective was to replace poorly designed — high maintenance, high cost conservation structures (graded contour…

Dick Grimshaw
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