Grassroots Innovation

Met a man named Johnny Georges yesterday in Arcadia. Johnny has found a way to reduce water use and provide frost protection to citrus trees. Water use reducion from almost 10,000 gallons per tree to under 1000 per year. Plus his system provides weed protection, reduces the need for fertilizer and, some say, brings the tree into production a year earlier. Good job Johnny!!

Johnny has become the victim of his own success.  There are powerful special interest that do not want to see precision placement of fertilzer, water, and pesticides because it reduces the need for all three.

Imagine superior results by cutting back on the use of irrigation motors from 12 hours a day to 30 minutes. Imagine being able to pipe in waste water for the job and leave our potable water in the ground.