permaculture

[Kevin Topek <ktopek@att.net>]

Laura,

I have been using Vetiver to stabilize 1,200 ft along a drainage  
channel next to a suburban subdivision. It has prevented erosion of  
the channel. It is also absorbing the fertilizer, pesticide and  
herbicide runoff with no deleterious effect to the Vetiver. It has  
beautiful red blooms in the fall and produces lots of biomass. It also  
survived a very hard winter and has rebounded like a champ.

Kevin Topek


On May 25, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Laura Dvorak wrote:

> Greetings permies-
>
> (Apologies if this info has already been submitted, I live off grid  
> and do not read each digest).
>
> I have been working with a vetiver farmer in Hawai'i, doing research  
> among other things, and I came across this document about its use in  
> the Gulf Region (document created pre-oil spill). Vetiver is an  
> amazing plant, little known but highly successful in  
> phytoremediation/erosion prevention. I am curious about what  
> experience other folks might have with it?
>
> http://www.vetiver.org/TVN_gulf_fact%20sheet.pdf
>
> In solidarity for the healing of the waters,
>
> Laura
>
>
>
>
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