Building Healthy Soil - October 12th Santa Fe, NM
Come learn the secrets to soil restoration from Michael MelendrezBuilding Healthy SoilThursday, October 12th from 2:00 PM- 4:00 PMLocation- Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM...
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View ArticleSoil Secrets Helps Corn
This is corn I grew in Bosque Farms in order to harvest the corn as silage and then turn the silage into compost. I treated my side of the field with EndoMaxima (the Soil Secrets Mycorrhizal product)...
View ArticleThese are the non cation nutrients
In the red column are the nutrients called Anion, which have a negative charge opposite of the Cation nutrients. The soil has a negative charge of various strengths called the CEC or Cation Exchange...
View ArticleWhy We Need Phosphorus!!
Here's a lesson on why we need phosphorus available to our plants. Phosphorus is easily tied up in the soil chemistry by a concretion effect when acids come into contact with alkaline substances in...
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I'm thrilled to share this Proof of Concept with the world. For many decades there have been products that claimed to fix soil, conserve water in agriculture, help soils retain water, increase carbon...
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Here's additional information on how well TerraPro's organic chemistry benefits agriculture by using vegetation analysis with infrared. These are almond orchards in California. You can easily see that...
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I've been reading up on new ways to access changes in soil concerning the Soil's Biota (the microbes), who they are and what diversity there is. I've found a bunch of published writings on using...
View ArticleFixing Soil using Carbon: Can Soil Carbon Sequestering be Encouraged and How...
By Michael Martin Melendrez, Founder and Managing Member - Soil Secrets LLCIt's common knowledge that the idea of increasing the amount of soil organic matter is generally a good idea. Its an even...
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Soil Secrets - Biomimetic Soil Ecology - "To Copy What is Life Like"Category of Product: Pre-Biotic - A substances that stimulates the growth or activity of microorganisms (e.g., bacteria and fungi) by...
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Soil Secrets LLC is on the go. In the world of agriculture, or urban horticulture a major hurdle is how to make or keep the root system of the crop or the landscape plant material healthy. While I've...
View ArticleConserving Water while also Fixing Soil
This story is about TerraPro a soil additive discovered and made by my company Soil Secrets LLC. The active ingredient of TerraPro is a biomimetic substance called a Carbon Matrix of molecules that...
View ArticleSalt and Crops
Here's another successful test trial using our carbon matrix product called TerraPro. The situation was one of salt causing dehydration on raspberries on Driscoll's farm in California. If you go into...
View ArticleGrowing Tomatoes With Soil Secrets
A few years ago one of our customers at the Trees That Please Nursery dropped in with a photo of him on a step ladder with his tomato plants. He was impressed by how large and healthy the plants got....
View ArticleThe Arboretum Tomé History
The Arboretum Tomé property was purchased in 1985 by Michael & Kari Melendrez as vacant land. Unknown to the Melendrez couple the soil was a high pH Saline Sodic Alkaline clay with the pH running...
View ArticleBuilding a Secret Garden using Soil Secrets and Trees That Please
Soil Secrets LLC was created from our nursery business Trees That Please back in the 1990's. It's purpose was to continue the R & D of products that could be effective in restoring the natural...
View ArticleFood Nutrient Density and Why our BIOpack is so important
Can you tell the difference? The first image shows a field that was not sprayed with your Consortium Soil Probiotic called BIOpack. The second image field was sprayed. Look at the difference in...
View ArticleSoil Carbon Sequestration
Michael MelendrezJuly 14 at 10:55 AM · Soil Carbon Sequestration is Building Top Soil. These two images were taken at our arboretum in Los Lunas, where 32 years ago the soil was a salty high pH clay...
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