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21/10/2026

A quick one from South Lismore. Three Ducks Farm's cattle dam had two spots seeping through the wall, and both were starting to wash out.

The usual answer is to rebuild the wall. That’s well over $10K and a lot of machinery on site.

Instead we planted 300 vetiver slips in four rows along the contour of the wall. Once established, the roots go down 2 metres or more and bind the wall together, while the hedges hold the soil on the face where it’s eroding.

Planted 23 September, so it’s early days. We’ll post an update as it grows in.
If you’ve got a dam, gully or bank that’s moving, have a look at what Vetiver Systems can do before you call in the excavator.

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Oldham, thanks for having us out.

17/09/2026

🌱 WOW — vetiver has made the BBC!

A BBC Future article highlights the amazing results vetiver is achieving in the Caribbean, where its deep, dense roots are helping protect vulnerable land from erosion during hurricane season.

And here in Portugal, we’re approaching our own critical season for erosion.

🌧️ The winter rains will be here before we know it.

If you have a slope, embankment, drainage area or bare soil that needs protecting, NOW is the time to get your vetiver in the ground. Give it time to establish before the heavy rains arrive — and those roots can get to work holding your soil together.

🌿 Last chance to plant before the rain arrives!

Photo: Jonathan Barcant, founder of the IAMMovement nonprofit, poses with dried vetiver root in his office in Trinidad (Credit: Damir Ali)

Read the BBC article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240613-vetiver-helps-protect-the-caribbean-from-hurricane-weather

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

Pilot complete: 1,000 Vetiver slips in the ground at Banyula— protecting a dam wall and supporting wetland regeneration next to the macadamia plantation.

Big thanks to Wellco Contracting and Josh Wellman for opening the door. It's given us the chance to show what the Vetiver System can actually do across two very different jobs on the same site — holding structure on water infrastructure (the dam wall) and priming the ground for wetland regeneration — in the one collaboration.

That's the real story here: Vetiver isn't a one-trick planting. It's a multi-skilled tool for land regeneration and water infrastructure protection, and Banyula is exactly the kind of ambitious, forward-thinking property where that gets to be proven out properly.

This is day one of what we hope is a much longer partnership. If you want to understand why Vetiver should be the go-to Nature-based Solution (NbS) for landcare across the Northern Rivers, we wrote it up here 👇

🔗 https://www.vetiverse.org/post/nature-based-solutions-for-landcare-in-the-northern-rivers-why-vetiver-grass-changes-the-equation

Thanks again to the whole Wellco Contracting and Banyula crew who got hands in the dirt to make this happen. More to come.

16/07/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/patricia-tello-reategui-65355667_vetiversystem-tsv-solucionesbasadasenlanaturaleza-share-7483282574165979136-36DU?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAACEdifUBPL2svHPlx13wy_QSpUTJPyUQcx0&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=facebook

14/07/2026

In 2013, I stood on a stage in Medellín, Colombia, making the case for Vetiver grass as a serious solution to erosion, leachate, and slope failure. The room nodded. A decade later, most of those same institutions are still doing things the old way.

Meanwhile, Stotts Creek landfill here in Australia has been running a large-scale Vetiver system successfully for 23 years — and it's still the only one doing it at that scale.

Twenty-three years of proof, and it hasn't spread. That's been bugging me for a while, and I don't think it's about the plant. I think it's about how we've been talking about it.

I wrote up what I think is actually going on — why solutions that work brilliantly on paper still can't get a seat at the table, and what needs to change about how they're presented to the people who'd actually use them.

Would love to hear what others think, especially anyone who's run into the same wall trying to get a good idea taken seriously.

🔗 https://www.vetiverse.org/post/why-vetiver-system-adoption-stalls-worldwide-and-how-to-fix-it

Daniel Londono
Vetiverse.org

Why the World's Most Proven Erosion Solution Still Can't Get a MeetingThe hard truth about vetiver system adoption — and how NbS entrepreneurs can break the institutional inertia.In 2013, I stood on a stage in Medellín, Colombia, making the case for Vetiver grass as a serious engineering solution...