by Woods End | Mar 5, 2012
The day before Earth Day 2009, fans of American Idol were wowed by a TV ad showing a SunChips bag disappearing and turning into compost, right before their eyes. The ad was genuine. It took stitching together 8,800 individual images shot within a see-through compost...
by Woods End | Feb 18, 2012
Soil labs have traditionally been reluctant to offer soil biology tests, partly due to costly, complicated (and outdated) methods. Renewed interest in soil quality is increasingly motivating researchers and growers. “For too long, its been believed that soil...
by Woods End | Oct 7, 2011
For one year, marine biodegradation tests have been underway at Woods End and are revealing “important and interesting differences” in behavior of polyethylene (PE) compared to biological plastic such as PLA (polylactic acid) and PHA...
by Woods End | Sep 19, 2011
The “Old Rotation” trial at Auburn University, AL has been continuously managed since 1896 (126 years) and is one of 3 of the oldest running research plots in the USA (in Europe, the Rothamsted plots have been running 160 years). Recent monitoring of the...
by Woods End | Jun 6, 2011
Public and private USA soil labs are lining up to offer Woods End’s latest protocol: a soil test that simulates the biological CO2-burst following moistening of dry soil. The phenomena of a respiration spike has been observed by soil scientists to...
