Sacred Seeds Garden, Colombia

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Our project is creating and planting a botanical garden in the Orinoco River basin to conserve the traditional medicinal trees and plants of this region. The project is being done with indigenous guidance as well as a knowledge sharing agreement with Missouri Botanical Gardens in the USA.

43,249 Árboles financiados de 43,229

15,621.1 T CO2 compensado

1,644 Seguidores

febrero 2024

Our latest output of Biochar for the Sacred Seeds Garden is ready. Biochar keeps the formation of the feedstock biomass that it was created from until pulverization into a slurry sized chunk. We generally keep our biochar in larger chunks until it's time for field application as

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01 feb. 2024

Dilmun Dombro · hace un año

Biochar is really such amazing stuff, I guarantee you will be hearing a lot m...

diciembre 2023

Sacred Seeds makes and uses Biochar as a soil amendment product. Biochar is the most important part of locking nutrients in poor quality soils so that trees can survive and grow through every season.

These visitors to the Biochar facility are demonstrating that ingesting biochar

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13 dic. 2023

marzo 2018

The Guacimo tree (Guazuma ulmifolia) plays an important role in indigenous communities, as native healers and shamans make use of the roots, the bark and the leaves for a large variety of traditional medicines. This year our Sacred Seeds Botanical Garden is planning on planting several

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19 mar. 2018

diciembre 2017

Papaya cultivation has several challenges. The trees need irrigation in the dry season, and male trees do not fruit. This means there is a selection process needed to have a producing stand of papaya trees. The fruit is what most people are familiar with. However, the leaves have

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04 dic. 2017

julio 2017

When germinating some trees, like these Pinus caribaea, it is very important to add mycorrhizal fungi to the soil. They provide a symbiotic association between the fungus, which breaks down nutrients and minerals, and the roots of the host plant. The ones best suited to Caribbean

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01 jul. 2017

abril 2017

In the Sacred Seeds Botanical Garden we don't use agrochemicals. Instead, we employ the three-hole #fertilization system. Basically, three holes are dug in a triangular pattern, with a fourth hole in the middle for the plant. The plant hole has #biochar, compost and manure balls

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15 abr. 2017