Double Canopy

Michael Martin Melendrez is an intrepid Soil scientist and entrepreneur. His innovations with Soil amendments and his out-of-the-box thinking have garnered many successes over a long career. Watch here as he challenges long standing assumptions, and backs it all up with science and experience.   

https://www.soilsecrets.com/@soilsecrets

Soil Secrets on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlgJd7e5rUBAxkzAsqEaUg

https://www.treesthatplease.org/

1990 Organic Food Production Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/2108/text

Mycorrhizal Fungi “Mining” Rock and Mineral https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-world-s-largest-mining-operation-is-run-by-fungi/

Lex Fridman Podcast w/ Elon Musk https://youtu.be/DxREm3s1scA?t=1645

NASA growing plants in Moon Soil https://www.npr.org/2022/05/14/1098753238/scientists-grow-plants-soil-moon-nasa-university-of-florida#:~:text=In%20a%20NASA%2Dfunded%20study,said%20in%20a%20press%20release.

Handbook of Lunar Soils (Regolith) https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/other/lunar_soils_catalog.pdf

International Oak Society https://www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/10th-international-oak-society-conference-2022

Nitrogen in the Environment: Leaching https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/wq262

Permaculture Drylands Institute is now Permaculture Institute https://permaculture.org/

Electrified Fog Collection! https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5323

https://youtu.be/NBhFxXT9mUQ?t=277

Interview Recorded August 16th, 2022

Back in 2017, Tim and Jon wrote a paper about a unique and audacious experiment in Costa Rica. Truckloads of Orange peels were dumped onto degraded pasture in the late 1990's, and left to decompose. The result is renewed forest with increased biodiversity, which begs the question: where else in the world can agricultural waste streams help restore degraded soil? 

Original Paper 2017: https://spia.princeton.edu/system/files/research/documents/Treuer_et_al-2017-Restoration_Ecology%20(1).pdf 

Reporting from 2017: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-fruitful-experiment-in-land-conservation/ 

Área de Conservación Guanacaste  https://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php 

Coffee Pulp Forest: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.12054 https://mbgecologicalrestoration.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/30-dump-truck-loads-of-coffee-pulp-help-restore-a-costa-rican-rainforest/ 

Costa Rica Orange Juice Companies:  http://www.delorocr.com/ 

http://www.ticofrut.com/home/ 

Tim on twitter: @Treuer 

Jon on twitter: @jonjchoi  

Interview Recorded on May 23rd, 2022