Timeline
Electric Fertilizer's documented history begins with founder David Wechsler's first electroculture experiments in early 2011, with the website and its first published research beginning later that same year. The site has been independently archived by the Internet Archive since June 2012.
Each entry below is labeled with how well-evidenced its date is. "Verified" dates come directly from the site's own database or an independent archive capture; "Probable" dates rely on the original post's own account of events.
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First experiment
David Wechsler's first electroculture experiment — a modified cell-phone charger and nail electrodes on a group of Romanesco broccoli seedlings, compared against an unelectrified tray of the same variety — began.
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First web pages published
The earliest surviving Electric Fertilizer web pages date to November 3, 2011, per the site's own database.
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First blog posts
The first blog posts, including the write-up of the original broccoli experiment, were published starting January 12, 2012.
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First independent archive capture
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine independently captured electricfertilizer.com for the first time on June 9, 2012 — external confirmation the site existed and was public at that date.
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Core research period
The bulk of the original research blog was published: mechanism explainers, grower-submitted trials (lettuce, backyard garden, the 50%-tomato-gains report), and the Sunflower+ phytoremediation project.
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Transition period
No local backup survives from this window. The last confirmed live capture of the original WordPress site is February 2019; the next platform's first capture is August 2020.
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Energetic Agriculture expansion
A broader blog presence covered electroculture (republished, not reinvented) alongside newer topics — electropermaculture, STEM/HarvestStorm hardware, magnetoculture — that have no earlier attestation in the historical record.
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Current evidence-graded site
The current site adds an explicit evidence-tiering system the earlier eras never had, distinguishing peer-reviewed research from grower reports and historical material.
See the current Research library →
Related pages
For the full origin story, see My First Experiment. For press and media appearances across every era, see Press & Media. For the site's own account of its books and product line, see Books and Products.