Tucked
away in the St.Croix River watershed of
Wisconsin is the largest organic nut tree
breeding farm in the country. Started in 1917 by Carl
Weschcke, a nut breeder and head of the Northern Nut
Growers for a number of years, the farm is comprised
of hardwood nut trees from mountain ridges all over
Europe and America. Trees were grafted and cross
pollinated, some were even patented.
Over 128 varieties of hard nuts are
here including 19 varieties of walnut, 20 varieties of
hickorys, 18 varieties of hick-cons, hazel-berts,
pecans, and chestnut. Endangered trees being preserved
are the American Chestnut and butternut and
hearth-nut. The breeding stock on this 140 acre farm
is incredible.
Dan Carlson C.E.O. of
Dan Carlson Scientific Enterprises Inc. bought the
farm in 1989 and started using Sonic Bloom on the tree
farm.
Sonic
Bloom makes any seed or cutting more viable than
its parent. When the farm was purchased, the nuts were
the size of a quarter, a few on the trees. Now after
eleven year of Sonic Bloom, the nuts are now the size
of a tennis balls, growing up to five at a time. The
larger the nut, the better and faster growing the
seedlings are.
Also, when Dan started using Sonic
Bloom on the farm, the leaves were the size of his
pointer finger. Now the seedling leaves are the size
of the palm of his hand. The larger the leaves the
larger the fruit and the faster the tree grows.
These trees and seedling are growing
500% faster than normal. Dan's Sonic Bloom has
now been reaching overseas, helping impoverished areas
produce greater food crops. For example, in the
village of Bangak,
Indonesia,
this sonic bloom treatment has been tried out on one
hectare of rice field, and the result was that farmers
could harvest 10.04 ton, whereas on the same area,
rice with non-sonic bloom treatment could only produce
4.7 ton.
Read more about Sonic
Bloom in the Windstar
Vision, May-June 1993, and the Northwind,
April 2000 |
