eco-marketplace
The 2010 Eco-Marketplace will be held concurrently with our 2010 Conference on February 25, 2010.This year the Eco-Marketplace is packed with “classic” alternative products – extreme cutting edge techniques and everything in between. Some of the many Eco-Marketplace displays will include:
- Live local snakes and salamanders - see how they fit into a healthy ecosystem.
- Vernal pools that support salamander lifecycles. Find out how to utilize design elements, native plants, and soil amendments to help snakes do their job of insect and rodent control.
- Chickens (real chickens – they cluck!) see how they can be incorporated into all sorts of landscapes.
- Check out the worms that work the soil and then feed the chickens.
- Plants that have multiple uses - both beauty and food.
- Stormwater and other water management that are essential to percolation and water table integrity - discover treefilters as a solution to cleaning and percolating storm water.
- Rain storage cisterns - not your grandfather’s rain barrel!
- Biochar retort is the brand new technology designed to use refuse wood or other organic material to generate heat and capture energy while trapping much of the carbon in a usable by-product – biochar.
- Microbes, compost tea, dry inoculants and more: learn about how these perform in some of the best of the organic fertilizers.