Secrets of Planting and
Growing Healthy Trees

by David Kennett, Australia

I do not have any experience about Moringa at this time or very little, but I sincerely want to grow it in future.

For 20 years I’ve been doing research into trees basically and the research covers all sorts of trees wherever they’re growing. It is absolutely fascinating the skills that I have developed which we’re all born with and can help us to understand many of Nature’s amazing secrets.  I’ve had the Good fortune to meet a lot of people in Nepal and I’ve traveled there on two occasions. Unfortunately, Covid prevented me from going there in recent years, but hopefully in 2023 I will be able to return there.   

They are so interested in what I’m doing. I’ve taught at multiple schools and universities across Nepal and also our community farming groups, but it’s very difficult to give people a complete understanding of my discoveries in a short period of time. Hopefully I’m going to be able to correct that situation this time.

We are all born with the most amazing intuition and unfortunately for generations we have been discouraged from developing this most amazing talent. I say to people we have all learned to speak our individual language and this takes a period of time, and we all often learn to ride a bicycle and we probably fall off multiple times before we develop the skill to ride a bicycle, and this goes with everything in life.

However, when I say to people have you ever tried water divining, most people say oh yes, and they say I tried it once but it didn’t work for me. What I get through to people is that we’ve got this amazing talent which we have to be encouraged to develop and use in a multiplicity of ways. Our brains are just like computers, they have default settings and we are connected to something which science cannot explain. A lot of people are unhappy for some reason with the word God and they call it Universal Consciousness. I’m happy with either of those ideas, but it seems all connected to each other. Through something that we just do not understand and we are able to gain so much information.

I’ll try and explain some of the things that I have discovered initially.

I just found that when I was doing water divining I could determine by walking across the paddock where there were underground flows of water. I could not just determine where the flows of water were occurring, but also the depth of the water, the quality of the water and the volume of the water flowing through these underground streams. So I wonder how I thought my goodness if we can get this sort of information surely we can ask other questions. So then I went on and I discovered that I can actually do this on Google Earth anywhere in the world.  And I’ve been speaking to a gentleman this afternoon.  I’ve never been to Malawi, but I was divining on his property in Malawi and we’re going to conduct classes over there on Zoom conferences hopefully in much the same as we’re doing today.  

Anyway, with my trees, I have discovered a development, if you like, of what a couple of American scientists discovered in the 1940s. That was that there is a grid pattern within the Earth’s magnetic field which they didn’t realize the significance of.  But what I’ve found is that it influences the growth of trees, and with a divining rod you can determine exactly where to plant your tree, whatever the tree is. Whether it’s a eucalyptus, an apple tree, orange tree, moringa tree, whatever, you can determine precisely the right place to plant that tree, so it will grow exceptionally well.

Now this came into my head years ago when I met a forester who had a lot of experience growing trees and we went around different plantations where trees had just been planted with a machine.  Only about two or three percent of the trees were growing dramatically better than the rest.  I said why is this? He said the reason why? It’ll be worth a million dollars. Well money doesn’t motivate me.

We can determine a precise place to plant and this is just so amazing.  It’s all a matter of electromagnetic energy.  So the reverse must be true where electromagnetic energy must ultimately matter in a fashion that we don’t perhaps understand.  But in the local town they planted some trees recently and according to my divining rot they were in the wrong position. So I discovered it by doing a zoom conference with 50 School principles in Nepal and when I was setting up this for this particular Zoom conference I made this amazing discovery.  And that is that the presence of magnetic material could influence the Earth’s magnetic field just locally, and so when a tree isn’t growing well for whatever reason, you can divine and find where to place a piece of metal to modify the Earth’s magnetic field so that tree will grow better. I’ve demonstrated this on my Facebook page. It is absolutely amazing.  

A tree that was nearly dead is now just recovering so quickly and it’s not because of the iron itself. It’s the magnetism and it is just so incredible.  But unfortunately, scientists tend to be really tunnel visioned, and anything they can’t explain with science they are very skeptical about, and they won’t even come and look at it no matter what I can demonstrate to them.

So that gives you a bit of background.  I certainly want to grow Moringa because it sounds like such a fantastic plant.  I also want to grow them from seed myself rather than growing them from cuttings, because I believe that in our low rainfall regions as I live in (here we get less than 350 millimeters of rain a year), trees need to develop healthy taproots. I think that only comes about as them growing from seeds.

Esther from Zambia asks:

David was talking about the soil and that you know how to improve this. We’ve been planting Moringa but the soils are not very good.

1. What interventions that can be made to help boost the soil do a better job?

2. You know the issue of termites. How does one handle the termites? Our government won’t let us use chemicals to get rid of termites in Moringa. So what other interventions can we do, because in most areas in Zambia people are struggling with termites. You find that your tree is blooming, but the next minute it’s all eaten up by termites and you have to start all over again thank you

One of my real interests is companion planting. If we look back on the history of farming in general, most farmers used to practice what was called crop rotation, and also companion planting. When you had crop rotation you used to include a fallow year.  The whole concept of the fallow year was that you let the weeds grow aggressively because the weeds actually put vital nutrients back into the soil.

I’m really interested in discovering the role of particular plants. What has fascinated me on my own property, where I’ve been growing trees for over 21 years, is that different weeds have come and gone. It seems that a particular plant will grow aggressively when there is a particular element that is required in that soil, but once it builds up that particular element to a certain level it will disappear.

What I’ve studied in quite some depth is that a lot of the Mediterranean type herbs add vital elements to the soil. One in particular is lavender which puts Boron into the soil. Oh, this is really quite fascinating because all trees need Boron, and if you see lavender growing, wheat and grasses in general do not like to grow. That where there is excess Boron.  But almost all plants need it, because evidently it strengthens the cell walls withing the plant itself.  

Likewise, so often Boron is lacking in our diets, but if we add it to our diets it will actually cure people who’ve got different forms of arthritis. A friend of mine had chronic arthritis and had been on the most terrible medication for years. I said to take Boron, which is purchased as Borax, and within two weeks of starting taking a little bit of Boron on each day, he was pain-free and off all his medication. Absolutely amazing!

Here in Australia we have some of the most impoverished soils in the world. It’s a wonder that anything grows. When wheat is grown here it has grown hydroponically. Virtually all the soil does is provide the mechanical support for the plant and everything is just grown due to adding expensive fertilizers which are just getting more and more expensive all the time.  But it’s very difficult to break traditional thinking! So many people here, when they practice having a fallow year, mistakenly as soon as the weeds put their head above the ground level the farmers put sheep on the land to eat the weeds. Okay, the Sheep will then eat the weeds and then they produce the manure. However, it’s not the same. Because the plants haven’t had time to grow and work their miracles. Nature is just so amazing! All these different plants put different elements into the ground and we need to recognize this. There’s much more to it than legumes providing nitrogen which is about as far as scientists seem to go. They don’t seem to be really interested in investigating other plants and their remarkable properties. It’s quite amazing!

I hope that’s of interest?

If I can add a little bit more…

This is so good because if you’re just growing Moringa as a mono-culture, you can also get different forms of income production by including some of these herbs and different plants.  

One of the things I’ve taught regularly in Nepal is the way we can layout vegetable gardens. It’s fascinating, because the young students in Nepal are absolutely fantastic. They just love it when they discover new things.

On example: They were growing vegetables on small acreages of land on really steep slopes and you can’t get tractors up there. But they tended to grow beans as a mono-culture, and tomatoes as a mono-culture, and everything is a mono-culture. This is absolutely abhorrent in nature.

So with the divining that I do, it says that alongside corn, you plant a row of climbing beans. It says that you don’t plant the climbing beans until the corn is about 80 centimeters tall and that then provides support for the climbing beans, which is fantastic. And the climbing beans provide nitrogen for the corn, which is really demanding. Then on the other side of a row of the corn you plant cabbages. Now cabbages get attacked by the White butterfly, but if you plant a row of onions in between the  corn and the cabbages, the smell of the onions or garlic will actually keep the White butterfly away. It also keeps any insect away that attacks the corn.  

You can get a whole layout of this with four different lots of vegetables all growing in harmony with each other. Then with these four different lots of vegetables, you rotate them. So one, two, three, four, and you can combine a year when they grow rice.  Of course, this is a very frequently grown crop in Nepal. Also, you can include a fallow year when you just let the weeds grow rapidly. It’s really exciting to see this being implemented in Nepal. I’m looking forward to going back in 2023. I encourage this to be undertaken on a wider basis.