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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
One of the big advantages of growing your own food is you can grow it for
maximum nutritional value. Your fresh picked fruits and vegetables haven’t
oxidized their vitamins and minerals compared to long distance shipped food. You
also get mild exercise while gardening.
For optimum health, you can improve the nutritional quality of the food grown by
the soil amendments which you add. So what would you add?
Consider this material from Peter Weis’s web site:
www.truehealth.org
- Since 7/8 of the 4 billion year
long evolution of life occurred in the seas, and only 1/8 of its span
occurred on land, we have inherited an absolute dependency upon the
complete range of the 72 natural trace elements, as found in the seas,
in all of our daily food for our physical and mental health.
- However, our modern agriculture
knows of and maintains only 8 trace elements in its soils and products,
and hence, in practically all of our daily food. Due to this 150
year-long neglect, over 60 natural trace elements have become severely
deficient or exhausted in all chemically farmed soils, and hence in our
daily food.
- This massive trace element
deficiency in our daily food is the direct cause of a great number of
diseases such as, but not limited to, breast, colon, prostate and lung
cancers, leukemia, lupus, MS, ALS, Alzheimer's, ADD, ADHAD, bi-polar,
heart & cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, diabetes, edema,
arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, herpes, influenza, many allergies and
birth defects.
- ...the only valid long-term
solution is the restitution and maintenance of the 72 natural trace
elements - which can be readily obtained from the sea - in all
agricultural soils, and hence, in all of our daily food
While the claims may be a over the top there is a growing acceptance that trace
minerals play an important role in health.
There are several sea based soil amendments which can be added to your garden
soils when they are being prepared for planting. They are: kelp meal, fish meal,
fish bone meal, greensand, usually added at about 1 pound per 100 square feet.
Liquid fish fertilizers and liquid seaweed can also be used as leaf sprays. Both
approaches bring sea based trace minerals into the garden soil and garden
plants.
Other soil amendments commonly used by organic gardener are: limestone, rock
phosphate, granite dust, and wood ashes.
Amendments are used to guarantee that a wide spectrum of trace minerals are
available for healthy plant nutrition and from them healthy gardeners.
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Sustainable
Living Through Organic Gardening