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VIRGIN ISLANDS FARMERS COOPERATIVE, INC
P.
O.
Box 2370 Kingshill, St.
Croix USVI 00851-2370
Phone: (340)-773-3276(farm) Fax: (304) 773-3276
Website: www.
vifarmerscoop.
org e-mail: vifarmers@vifarmerscoop.
org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 26, 2009...
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VIRGIN ISLANDS FARMERS COOPERATIVE, INC
P.
O.
Box 2370 Kingshill, St.
Croix USVI 00851-2370
Phone: (340)-773-3276(farm) Fax: (304) 773-3276
Website: www.
vifarmerscoop.
org e-mail: vifarmers@vifarmerscoop.
org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 26, 2009
Virgin Islands Farmers Cooperative
St.
Croix US Islands
Contact: Kelly Gloger
Project Administrator
718-4266
514-4959
Farmers Coop Begin Innovative Soil Project
The National Resource Conservation Service’s Conservation Innovation Grants program
has awarded $75,000 to the Virgin Islands Farmers Cooperative for a project that will
improve the soils at its 60-acre Estate Grange organic farm.
The three year-project will
produce 750 tons of compost and 60 tons of biochar annually that will be applied to
maintain and improve soil productivity at the farm.
What makes the project innovative is its plan to combine compost, a well established
organic farming technology, with biochar, an ancient soil improvement technology
recently discovered
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