Well, it's true...we grow grass...and so much more!
Our six-year-old dream is reaching fruition, as our farm is now producing commercially-viable numbers of vetiver plants that are improving the complexion of Hawaii.
Vetiver IS changing the world. It's changing the environment. It's holding moisture in arid land. It's securing top soil, and restoring top soil to areas where it's been depleted for years. It's recharging aquifers. It's enabling farmers and communities to maintain viable farmland and potable water.
Vetiver hedges are stabilizing moisture and increasing the yields in coffee and banana groves.
Vetiver's sterile...it has no rhizomes, and its seeds are sterile. Ours is not the first island to embrace the Vetiver System. It's welcome and working in Fiji, Guam, Haiti and Indonesia, among others. It's a non-invasive clump grass, two feet in diameter at maturity. And...it won't grow larger!
The roots form an amazing vertical net that penetrates 12 feet deep!
Help spread the word, and this grass...so many countries are decades ahead of us. Vetiver works...hard!
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I am in the pest control business and also work closely with farmers, providing them natural pest management solutions exclusive of pesticides. I would love to know more about the best means of cultivating this grass with crops. The farmers would welcome any additional income possible through the commercial use of this plant and benefit from all the attributes it obviously has. Extracts from this plant for the frangrance and pest management industry could be a good start!