Nutrients for Plants
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#2 Rejuvenate the Planet
by Loren Spector
In December of 1986, I came across a book called “The Survival of Civilization” by John
Hamaker and Donald Weaver. Just the first chapter was worth the price of the book.
In that chapter, titled “Our 100% Junk Food Supply is Destroying Us”, I expected to
find the standard information about how food processing has resulted in the type of
empty calories that most people consume as the basis of their diet.
There is another situation, however, that is even more serious than this “empty calorie”
problem.
For human beings to function properly - both mentally and physically – our
bodies depend on the proper functioning of numerous enzyme systems, which
are involved in the fabricating of all the body’s production, maintenance, and
control systems.
Whether or not we can make these enzymes depends upon our food supply, and
especially its content of soil minerals, which are necessary parts of the enzyme
molecules.
NO MINERALS = NO ENZYMES
Micro-organisms in the soil depend on these minerals - including trace minerals - to
produce the enzymes needed to make protoplasm, the essential living matter of all
plant and animal cells, which in turn is utilized by the plant roots. While the plant will
then alter some of these protoplasm compounds to produce the enzymes and other
requirements, it still depends on the quality of the protoplasm of the soil micro-
organisms. These in turn, depend on the availability of minerals in the soil.
As many have pointed out before, we are what our plants eat!
As time goes by, minerals are gradually leached out of the soil by rainfall. When land is
farmed, the minerals are removed from the soil by the crops that are grown on it.
Dr. Howard Hagglund, former faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, states that
“The best way to get both minerals and vitamins is from food. But foods today
seldom contain enough essential minerals and vitamins...because farmland has
been ruined. It takes only ten years of intensive farming to exhaust the minerals
in any tract of land.” Agricultural land is typically fertilized with only potassium,
phosphorus, and nitrogen. “Unfortunately, many other essential minerals
(including molybdenum, manganese, magnesium and zinc) are not replenished.”
Even organically grown food may not contain all the minerals that plants need because
the minerals are not put back into the soil along with the organic matter.
There are two solutions to this problem. First, we need to find a way of adding
these minerals - especially the trace minerals - back into our diets. Blue green algae is
an excellent way to do this.
Second, we need to make the re-mineralization of all our farmlands a national priority.
Our mineral-rich plant food is an opportunity for us to introduce the concept of soil
re-mineralization so that it can be applied on a large-scale basis. How can we do this?
Start by planting something this spring as a demonstration of the
effectiveness of this plant food, even if it’s just a couple of tomato plants in
pots. Do one with the plant food, the other without. When people come over
to your house, show them the difference that the plant food has made. Take
pictures and let everyone you know see the difference. Seeing is believing!
In December of 1986, I came across a book called “The Survival of Civilization” by John
Hamaker and Donald Weaver. Just the first chapter was worth the price of the book.
In that chapter, titled “Our 100% Junk Food Supply is Destroying Us”, I expected to
find the standard information about how food processing has resulted in the type of
empty calories that most people consume as the basis of their diet.
There is another situation, however, that is even more serious than this “empty calorie”
problem.
For human beings to function properly - both mentally and physically – our
bodies depend on the proper functioning of numerous enzyme systems, which
are involved in the fabricating of all the body’s production, maintenance, and
control systems.
Whether or not we can make these enzymes depends upon our food supply, and
especially its content of soil minerals, which are necessary parts of the enzyme
molecules.
NO MINERALS = NO ENZYMES
Micro-organisms in the soil depend on these minerals - including trace minerals - to
produce the enzymes needed to make protoplasm, the essential living matter of all
plant and animal cells, which in turn is utilized by the plant roots. While the plant will
then alter some of these protoplasm compounds to produce the enzymes and other
requirements, it still depends on the quality of the protoplasm of the soil micro-
organisms. These in turn, depend on the availability of minerals in the soil.
As many have pointed out before, we are what our plants eat!
As time goes by, minerals are gradually leached out of the soil by rainfall. When land is
farmed, the minerals are removed from the soil by the crops that are grown on it.
Dr. Howard Hagglund, former faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, states that
“The best way to get both minerals and vitamins is from food. But foods today
seldom contain enough essential minerals and vitamins...because farmland has
been ruined. It takes only ten years of intensive farming to exhaust the minerals
in any tract of land.” Agricultural land is typically fertilized with only potassium,
phosphorus, and nitrogen. “Unfortunately, many other essential minerals
(including molybdenum, manganese, magnesium and zinc) are not replenished.”
Even organically grown food may not contain all the minerals that plants need because
the minerals are not put back into the soil along with the organic matter.
There are two solutions to this problem. First, we need to find a way of adding
these minerals - especially the trace minerals - back into our diets. Blue green algae is
an excellent way to do this.
Second, we need to make the re-mineralization of all our farmlands a national priority.
Our mineral-rich plant food is an opportunity for us to introduce the concept of soil
re-mineralization so that it can be applied on a large-scale basis. How can we do this?
Start by planting something this spring as a demonstration of the
effectiveness of this plant food, even if it’s just a couple of tomato plants in
pots. Do one with the plant food, the other without. When people come over
to your house, show them the difference that the plant food has made. Take
pictures and let everyone you know see the difference. Seeing is believing!