Archive for January 2019
VITAL Blend improved Hops yield in Michigan
In early 2017, we applied VITAL Blend granular and VITAL Blend 5M liquid soil amendments to young hop plants in a couple of rows on Bell’s Brewery demo plot. The plantings were done near the Kalamazoo location of Bell’s Brewery. We top-dressed the granular applications near the base of the plants and then used a…
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Building Soils and Relationships in LaGonave Part II
Mark and I recently went to the Haitian island, LaGonave. We got down and dirty in the island’s agriculture with the help of a mission group called Starfysh (http://starfysh.org/). The goal for working with the people on LaGonave is three-fold: To help improve their potting soil composition for seedling transplants by initially mixing VITAL Blend…
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