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There's gold in this green grass

November 15, 2009 - 12:00am

It is as old as time, a part of God’s creation as a natural soil binder. But Vetiver grass has largely been ignored,...

Starweek Magazine

Hacienda San Benito: Green retreat

By Christine S. Dayrit | October 11, 2009 - 12:00am

In life, it happens quite often that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives and we don’t realize the value of what has arrived until it is missing.

Travel and Tourism

Bamboo, vetiver effective in riverbank rehab – study

By Rudy A. Fernandez | October 20, 2007 - 12:00am

Nation

A ‘miracle grass’

August 27, 2006 - 12:00am

Many farmers now call it "miracle grass." And they have reason to append this to vetiver, a grass species that has been found to control soil erosion and rehabilitate unproductive uplands. Confirming...

Agriculture