Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Yvonne Scott" <environmentalenhancers@hotmail.com>]

I suggest you check out the work of Michael Martin Melendrez, Soil Secrets 
developer and owner.  You will find he is well ahead of the program in 
re-vitalizing our depleted soil through his complete soil food web program.  
His website is: www.soilsecrets.com.

Blessings,
Yvonne Scott for TerrawoRx, distributor of Soil Secrets products and 
landscape restoration specialist.




> From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
> Reply-To: "self-reliance, networking, and simple living,  for small farm 
> sustainability,  rural independence and security." 
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> Subject: [Livingontheland] Remineralizating Soils for Optimum 
> ElementalBalance
> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:15:10 -0600
>
>
> Remineralizating Soils for Optimum Elemental Balance
> by David Yarrow July 2005, Acres U.S.A.
> http://www.acresusa.com/magazines/archives/0705remineralize.htm
>
>    Remineralization of our agricultural land and garden soils with 90-plus
> minerals is the goal of two lifelong advocates of sustainable organic food
> production, Robert Cain and David Yarrow, who were brought together by
> their common interest in the research of Maynard Murray, M.D.
>    As most Acres U.S.A. readers are aware, Dr. Murray was a medical doctor
> and research scientist who was troubled by the obvious continual decline of
> American health and the subsequently flourishing pharmaceutical industry.
> He searched for reasons, on biological and chemical levels, as to why our
> bodies lose their resistance to chronic illness and develop degenerative
> disease.
>    His studies led him to the sea, where, miraculously, cancer, arthritis,
> arteriosclerosis and aging on a cellular level seemingly did not exist. He
> discovered that sea life is sustained in a balanced solution consisting of
> all 90-plus atomic table elements. Murray observed that a cubic foot of
> seawater contains considerably more living organisms than an equivalent
> amount of soil.
>    Murray theorized that the apparent difference in disease resistance and
> vitality between life on land and in the sea is due to mineral deficiencies
> in our soil and food. He visualized an endless cycle wherein continents
> rise from the sea rich with minerals. The constant effects of climate —
> freezing, thawing, rainfall, and erosion — combined with mankind’s
> historically poor stewardship of the land and increasing acid rain cause
> topsoil minerals to go into solution. These mineral solutions then enter
> streams and rivers and subsequently flow into the sea. Murray concluded
> that these minerals hold the key to human health. Therefore, it made
> perfect sense to recapture them and restore them to our soils.
>    Initially, he successfully experimented using diluted seawater on soils
> and crops. Then he discovered that if water is totally removed from pure,
> mineral-enriched seawater, 3.5 percent remains as solids. He called these
> minerals “sea solids” and used them exclusively, during many years of
> extensive research, on all ranges of crops and soil types. Murray even
> developed a specialized use of sea solids for hydroponics, and operated a
> successful 13-acre hydroponic fresh-produce farm in southern Florida. The
> results were consistently the same: the plants flourished, matured more
> rapidly, were healthier, were more disease and drought resistant, and
> produced outstanding taste along with greater yields. In assays testing for
> nutrients, foods grown with Murray’s sea solids had significantly more
> minerals (ash content), vitamins (25 percent more vitamin C in tomatoes; 40
> percent more vitamin A in carrots) and sugars. In addition, he witnessed
> the same amazing results in all types of livestock and poultry that were
> offered feed grown in soil enriched by his sea solids. Physiologically,
> these animals were healthier, gained weight more rapidly, and reached
> maturity sooner.
>    During his 30 years of research, Murray conclusively proved that the
> proportions of trace minerals and elements present in pure seawater are
> optimum for the growth and health of both land and sea life. Additionally,
> he found that once these minerals and trace elements are restored to the
> soil, reapplication is not necessary for five or more years, given normal
> rainfall and climatic conditions. Cain, under Dr. Murray’s direction,
> applied these minerals to both soil and hydroponic food production, and
> personally tasted and witnessed their outstanding effects.
>    Since creating sea solids by desalinization of seawater is very costly,
> Murray searched the earth for the best source of sea solids in their
> natural form. He required expansive tidal flats on the banks of a
> mineral-rich, unpolluted sea in an arid region with little or no rainfall.
> Prior to his death in 1983, he disclosed to Cain the location he had found
> to be the purest.
> Only recently, Cain and Yarrow have begun mining sea solids from Murray’s
> source and distributing the product throughout North America. Cain says he
> believes Dr. Murray discovered the true “Fountain of Youth.” However,
> the fountain with its life-enhancing properties is located not at a
> springhead where a stream or river begins, but rather at the opposite end
> of the ecosystem, where it empties into the sea.
>    Cain and Yarrow’s vision is to improve the quality of human health
> through the food we eat by remineralizing the soil in which it is grown. In
> their opinion, application of these extraordinary sea solids with their
> 90-plus elements — the sea’s full spectrum of minerals — to tired and
> depleted soils is the perfect solution. They believe that as stewards of
> the land, it is our responsibility to restore the mineral balance to soils
> and subsequently the foods we ingest. Cain and Yarrow hope to convince all
> stewards of the land to help sustain life on this planet by remineralizing
> their soils and spreading the wisdom of sea energy agriculture.
>
>    For more information on sea solids and the work of Robert Cain and 
> David
> Yarrow, contact SeaAgri Inc., 4822 Kings Down Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30338,
> phone (770) 361-7003, e-mail <seaagri@bellsouth.net>, website
> <www.seaagri.com>.
>
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