One visit at harvest: help show where vetiver helps crops most What GVF is, and why now For forty years, vetiver hedges have been shown to hold soil, slow runoff and keep water in the field, and TVNI’s standards document…
How a closed hedge spreads water, sorts sediment, and hands nitrogen and phosphorus to the crop below — and why a leaky one does the reverse I have described a properly functioning vetiver hedge as a poor man’s irrigation system…
The Hedge That Pays Twice How vetiver grass and its mulch cut farm costs and keep crops alive when the weather turns extreme Ask any farmer what has changed in the last decade and you will hear the same answer…
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…
For most of its working life, vetiver has been valued as an “engineer”. It holds slopes, slows runoff, traps sediment, drains waterlogged ground, and treats decontaminated water and land . That reputation is deserved and thoroughly documented. But the same…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This might be the most important post I write this year, and I’m going to be direct about why: We have something potentially extraordinary in our hands—a Vetiver- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) partnership that research suggests could deliver 70-85%…
How Vetiver Retrofits Turn 7% Yield Losses Into 200%+ Gains—While Suppressing Pests Farmers Never Expected (the photos in this article are all from Ethiopia and show vetiver planted in the mid 1990s and the early 2000s) The transformation of Ethiopia’s…
An Invitation to Farmers and Other Vetiver Users Choose Your Path, Document Your Journey, Share Your Knowledge What if the greatest agricultural research wasn’t happening in laboratories, but on your farm? What if farmers like you—working the land, observing the…
In this issue The Hidden Benefits of Vetiver: When Farmers Discover What Science Had Already Proven Five Hidden Mechanisms Working Beneath the Surface Voices from the Field: Ethiopia’s Experience The Soil Temperature Crisis: How Vetiver Actually Cools Your Farm World…
Comprehensive Assessment of Staple Grains, High-Value Perennials, and Vegetable Crops Under Rising Soil Temperatures—and the Vetiver Solution The Crisis Beneath Our Feet While the world fixates on rising air temperatures, bare degraded soil now reaches 43-50°C during peak sun versus…