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Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling
- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
- To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:16:33 -0600
We haven't talked much about minerals here. Remineralize The Earth website
is at http://www.remineralize.org/ . There are controversies. I've used a
little greensand but nothing else in the way of rock dusts.
It's my understanding minerals are best chelated right in the composting
process, by humic acids. I'd like to know more.
paul tradingpost@lobo.net
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau
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On 7/31/2006 at 9:34 PM Mark Nagel wrote:
>This is one issue where we should focus the use of machinery and precious
>energy: mining for minerals. As John D. Hammaker spelled out, we've got
>remineralize the earth!
>
>
>NOTE: Hammaker's underlying concern was with climate change. He felt that
>we had to create more biomass, and that this couldn't be achieved with the
>current mineral state of our soils.
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>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
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>From: Phil Bunch <pbunch@cox.net>
>
>Sunlight is useless without the mineral nutrients. Mineral "mining" using
>any method is a short term fix. Once the mined nutrients are exported they
>have to be replaced or crops will fail.
>
>Phil
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Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling,
Harvey Ussery, 07/31/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling, Art Corbit, 07/31/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling, Phil Bunch, 07/31/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling,
Mark Nagel, 07/31/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil: Nutrient Cycling, TradingPostPaul, 07/31/2006
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