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How the updated VGT design standards underwrite a two-wing vetiver service company
Updated Design Standards and Specifications What the revisions mean for your work The design standards, guides and specifications listed in the design spec table are there to support your work with vetiver — whether you use them as an individual,…
Water First — Think Water, Then Erosion
The Vetiver and Water foundation note — and why the order matters Ask most people what vetiver does and they will say it stops erosion. That is true, and it is the wrong place to start. Everything a vetiver hedge…
NEWSLETTER (NL2026-07): A Harder Look – Vetiver Design Standards – Guides – Updates and Revisions
The following standards and guides have been corrected and updated: D4 – VGT – Microbial Root Dips for Vetiver Establishment v3 D5 – VGT – Vetiver and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF): Soil Health, Water, and Nutrient Transfer v3 D6- VGT…
Vetiver Genotypes by Region, Fertility and Weed Status
A reference table separating the sterile cultivars used in Vetiver Grass Technology from the fertile, seed-bearing accessions that carry the invasiveness record Invasiveness in vetiver is a property of the genotype, not of the species. The material used in Vetiver…
NEWSLETTER (NL2026-06): Attention: wine industry, Vetiver’s shifting climatic range, Hedging Bets: Sequestration vs. Storage Reality
On hikes that passed through wine-producing regions in Europe, scenes like those pictured below prompted thinking about how the Vetiver System could benefit vineyard owners around the world. Wine grapes want slopes – for drainage, for sun, for the cool…
FIVE STUDIES. 1,300 FARMERS. THE QUESTIONS NOBODY ASKED
THE VETIVER ADOPTION PARADOX Understanding Why Farmers Don’t Use What They Know Works Part of the Global Farmer Demonstration Program series Introduction This post builds on our recent article Become a Farmer-Researcher: Six Vetiver System Models to Transform Your Farm,…
The Hidden Benefits of Vetiver
When Farmers Discover What Science Had Already Proven The Vietnamese Discovery The Vietnam Vetiver Farmers Group (facebook.com/groups/vetiver4vn) has become the world’s most innovative vetiver community through careful field observation and documentation. Their farmers noticed something remarkable: crops planted close to…
RETROFIT CONSTRUCTED CONSERVATION BUNDS AND TERRACES WITH VETIVER HEDGEROWS
Retrofit thousands of kilometers of constructed bunds, terraces, fanya juus BY planting one row of vetiver along the upslope foot (toe) of bunds or on the outer edge of terraces and these structures will start showing the benefits of vetiver…
New Experimental Evidence: Vetiver Nearly Eliminates Runoff — What This Means for Micro Catchment Restoration
For years, practitioners across the Vetiver Network have known — from field experience, hydrological logic, and scattered academic studies — that vetiver hedgerows dramatically increase infiltration and reduce destructive runoff. Yet one of the persistent barriers to institutional uptake has…