2008' Nutrition Project with Organic Heirloom Corn  
Heritage Foods & Seeds in association with Pest Management Systems


Principal Investigator: Mr. Dave Bergin - aka "Chipmunk."

 

Primary Funding: Oak Hill Foundation (US) & The Garden Institute of British Columbia (Canada) 

Research:  Methods and Material Abstract

 

Analytical Labs:

 

Microbial Matrix Systems

 

Lynn Rodgers  

33935 Highway 99E

Tangent, OR. 97389

Soil tests at beginning of season and the end of a season, looking at active and total fungi, plus active and total bacterial numbers with  roots tested for mycorrhizal colonization at end of season.

 

Perry Ag Laboratory 

Bob Perry 

St. Highway 59E

Bowling Green, MO., 63334

Soil tests for elemental analysis of soils and the elemental analysis of two sweet corn seed lines.

 

Soil Test Farm Consultants

Brent Thyssen

2925 Driggs Dr.,

Moses Lake, WA. 98837

Corn leaf tissue analysis in vegitative-fruiting stage.

 

Oregon State University

Linus Pauling Institute - Bob Durst

571 Weniger Hall

Corvallis, OR., 97331

Anthocyanin concentration evaluation, with Amino Acid profiles completed at UCLA, California.

 

Western Agriculture Labs

 

John Taberna

 

211 Highway 95

 

Parma, ID., 83660
 

Corn leaf tissue analysis in vegitative-fruiting stage.

 



 

Grower Participants: