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Welcome to Our Site!
Who Can Benefit from this Site? Educators, scientists, farmers, builders and contractors, developers, large agricultural concerns, and even the backyard tomato grower -- anyone open to learning about the newest technology used to transform barren soil into fertile crop-producing land.
In this age of food shortages and mass starvation, the world leaders need the information contained in this site. Through networking, we can get the information out that there is a machine which enables the earth to extract moisture from the smallest amount of precipitation.
There are imprinting machines large enough to transform countries and units small enough to work for the average farmer or even backyard vegetable growers.
With a united effort, we can change the current self destructive path of mankind by cooperating with nature to maximize our natural resources.
This is an exciting time. More and more people are waking up to the food crisis we are facing and are stepping up to the plate to do what they can to save our planet -- save ourselves!
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IMPRINTING : Does It Work?
| "Theory without Fact is Fantasy, and Fact without Theory is Chaos" | ||
| Walt Whitman | ||
The research of the Imprinting Foundation is based upon Whitman's words. Facts are provided to validate rainwater infiltration theory, and the theory unifies many assorted infiltration facts. Imprinting is based upon this infiltration theory that is well supported by infiltration data collected in four states: Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada & Arizona, during the period 1960 to 1975, primarily by Dr. Robert Dixon, shown right (we know, the resemblance to Sam Elliot is uncanny!)
You can use the menu to the left or the links below to go to the indexes of Conservation Essays and Scientific Publications. Although far from Danielle Steel or Tom Clancy stories, the articles are of major importance to those of us who are trying to turn the tide of the disasterous route this planet is taking. Each contribution from educators, scientists, agricultural experts, etc., builds on the next. The answers to today's serious problems are to be found amidst the various theories and scientific data. The imprinting machine is just one example of what can be done through technology and literally putting the nuts and bolts together (you were wondering where that was going to tie in, now weren't you?)
The Dixon Land Imprinter (one shown at right) is a very simple machine consisting of only two moving parts--the imprinting roller and the seedbox agitator. Imprinters have been designed for ecological restoration and the establishment of cover crops. They have smaller diameter rollers and are easier to transport. Some can work on 2:1 slopes and even steeper. Click on left menu or on picture for imprinter specifications.
Simple seeders, are directly driven from the imprinting roller, such as the roller shown on the right, and can deliver complex mixes of native seeds to the roller top where they are carried forward, dropped on the soil surface and then imbedded in the imprint surfaces.Click on left menu or on picture for roller specifications.
AIR EARTH INTERFACE (AEI)
V-shaped imprints funnel resources downward where they can work in concert to germinate seeds and establish seedlings. See the photograph on the right (now that is a framable work of art!) The vegetative response to imprinting is rapid because the v-shaped imprints or indentations hold rainwater in place and captures seed, water and windblown plant litter. So it is a unique combination of factors that make this V-shaped imprint very successful: It concentrates water and seed, funneling it to the bottom of the imprint; captures and concentrates windblown litter, that works as mulch to suppress evaporation; and gathers other windblown seeds for a cover crop and biodiversity. Advantages of imprinting over other methods include better soil and water conservation, better stands of vegetation, faster growing seedlings, and greater production of forage/plant material.
For you "Technophiles"
The Imprinting Foundation
1616 E. Lind Road
Tucson, Arizona 85719
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