ROCK DUST
An inexpensive way to grow more organic food

Links:
World Peace Diet

Radical Freedom Blog

Permaculture Design

Species Specific Diet

Remineralize.org

Sierra Club: True Cost of Food

Home Scale Food Forests

Cal-Earth Art and Architecture

Ishmael.org

Soil Remineralization

Remineralization is an important concept because factory farming has destroyed much of the nutritional quality of our food in the Last 50 years. Because we are eating so much unnatural food, that is designed for shelf life rather than nutrition, the health of humans in industrialized society is in many ways much worse than it was 100 years ago, when more people had access to local fresh food and water.

Don Weaver, an avid rock dust proponent explains that remineralizing the soil can be done very easily just by grinding rock from a quarry into dust and folding it into the soil.

Nutritious soil=Nutritious food

I met Don Weaver, who is an expert on remineralization, at a conference for raw living foods in Fort Brag CA. Don described foods grown with this rock dust as being tastier and more satisfying than much of the food we eat now a' days "You only need one or two pieces of fruit to feel satisfied with rock dust because the microbes in the soil take exactly what they need to help the plants become balanced." He explained in his talk.

In a world where food cravings and addictions and over weight are the norm, remineralization struck me as a very simple solution to many of our health and farming problems as well as an answer to regenerating forest and natural habitat for all living beings on the planet. Another way to end addiction is to eat a species specific raw fruit and veggie diet and limit grain or completely give up grain intake.

The way we have been going about getting the minerals we need is all wrong in modern society. We try to take supplemental minerals in pill form or expensive super duper liquids, but these are not absorbable by our bodies or given in the right trace amounts the way nature does it. Plants take up just the right ratios of minerals for our human bodies with their root systems and make them into useable forms.

Raw vegan author of The 80 10 10 Diet, and trainer, Doug Graham, whom I also met at the annual raw foods festival, calls this fractionalized way of getting vitamins and minerals a "shell game". We are constantly out of balance and keep adding more and more different man made fractionalized substances to try to feel better. This is an expensive and losing battle that could be ended easily by letting the microbes in our plants do the work naturally as was originally the plan.