growing for health
It’s as Easy
as it “Neems”
by James E. Kostrava
From a tree found in dry, harsh sub-Saharan
Africa comes a new natural plant
supplement that improves plant
health dramatically, increases yield
and reduces stress from pests
and turns the average Joe
into a master grower…
We have all seen
movies of Africa
safaris set in subSaharan Africa.
The landscape is
harsh, dry and
desolate, yet in
the middle of
nowhere, you
will see these
large, lush healthy
green trees that
are not just surviving—they are thriving. Those are neem
trees. Over generations,
they have adapted to one of
the harshest climates on Earth
and have also evolved a resistance
to bugs. They don’t poison the pests
like traditional pesticides, they trigger a
“stop eating” response that causes the
bugs to starve to death. That’s why when
locusts come through and eat everything
in sight, the only thing left are the
neem trees.
Science behind the technology
A microbiologist asked the question:
“Is it possible to capture the essence of
these remarkable neem trees from Africa
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and apply them to plants here in North
America, producing the same results that
the neem trees exhibit in Africa?” The
answer is, “Yes!” This process is called
“bioadaptive supplementation” and the
chief scientist that literally wrote the
book on chemical extraction technology
extracted the essence from neem seeds in
a highly concentrated liquid that captures
almost all of the bioactive nutrients
found in the tree.
This OMRI-listed pure
essence is vastly different
from the more wellknown neem oil.
First of all, neem
oil is just that: oil.
We all know
that oil and
water don’t
mix. This new
concentrate
is emulsifiable so it
mixes with
regular water
to become
a foliar spray.
Second, neem
oil includes less
than 30% of the
bioactive nutrients
of the neem seed
while this new plant
supplement captures 92%.
Once sprayed on the plants,
these nutrients help plants quickly
become healthier, increase their yield
and show less stress from insects. It also
allows professional growers to achieve
this high productivity and plant health
while reducing the use of other chemical
nutrients and agricultural chemicals.
Testimonials from master growers
Master growers who field tested this new
neem essence supplement said that it
would be remarkable if it performed the