<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 16px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: times,serif;"><div class="newsArticleHead"><p class="newsArticleDate">News release, October 16, 2014</p><h1><font size="4">Plant communities produce greater yield than monocultures</font></h1></div><p class="newsArticleLead">Diverse
plant communities are more successful and enable higher crop yields
than pure monocultures, a European research team headed by ecologists
from the University of Zurich has discovered. The scientists are
convinced that the cultivation of crop mixtures in agriculture and
forestry will play a key role in food safety in the future. <br></p><p class="newsArticleLead"><br></p><p class="newsArticleLead">Read more: <b>http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2014/pflanzengemeinschaften-bringen-mehr-ertrag-als-monokulturen_en.html<br></b></p><br><br><div id="elnk_signature_1414087883562" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;"><font size="2"><b><font face="garamond,serif">"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem."</font></b><br><br><font face="georgia,serif">Robin Alton Suggs<br>MoonBranch Botanicals<br>5294 Yellow Creek Road<br>Robbinsville, North Carolina 28771 <br>USA<br>Telephone: 828.479.2788<br>Email: moonbranch@earthlink.net<br>Websites:<br>www.moonbranch.com & www.localharvest.org/store/M16074<br><br>Member:<br>Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project; Farm Partner<br>Green Products Alliance <br>North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines <br>North Carolina Goodness Grows/NCDA&CS <br>United Plant Savers</font><br><br>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="garamond,serif"><b>“The
world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from
those who actually commit it.” </b></font></p><font size="2" face="garamond,serif">
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="garamond,serif">- Albert Einstein</font></p></div></div></body></html>