Three Big Island farms participated this year in the grant-funded Nutrition Grown Farmers’ Educational Program and Farm Trials— Chad’s Organics (Chad Wasserman) in Hilo, Waianaia Earth Temple (Naomi and Yoav Melamed) in Kapaau, and the farm of Courtney Zajicek/Nubaui...
Here are the astonishing results of a recent Beyond Organic farm trial. Bryan Riley farms vegetables for market at an old dairy farm in Naalehu at 460′ elevation. He has been farming commercially for several years. We did a side-by-side trial of Beyond Organic...
Here are some more fantastic results from Susan, who is a student in the Perfect Soil™ Certificate Course. Remember, from my last blog post, the broccoli at the back of the kale beds? They have matured, and here are some pictures of the comparison. Susan says, of...
One of my students in the Perfect Soil Certificate Course, Susan, recently shared her results of a side-by-side comparison trial of the Beyond Organic Growing System(TM). The control bed was fertilized/amended as she had done typically in the past with organic-type...
Ten years ago, when I was working on my PhD at Colorado State University, I visited the Rocky Mountain National Park. Dying trees everywhere! About half of the forest appeared dead. The question was “Why?”. It has been blamed on pine bark beetles...
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