The Victory Garden And Benefits Of Bio-charcoal In The Soil
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Nutrient-dense food is kKey for optimal health, and for this you need healthy soil.
Without the proper minerals in the soil, the plants cannot reach their genetic potential.
Experts have been warn for many years that nearly all commercial agricultural topsoil around the world will be lost in the next 60 yrs if practices do not change. Thus makes soil regeneration a Key issue.
In the soil, minerals provide an essential ingredient for most enzyme systems to function properly.
Without the appropriate minerals an otherwise perfectly produced enzyme will not work and provide nutrients to the plant, or protect it from pests.
This is one of the reasons that Monsanto’s (NYSE:MON) Roundup (glyphosate) works. It binds up important minerals like zinc, manganese, and many others making them unavailable to the plant.
Soil is an interface between biology and geology.
Minerals have electronic valence potentials that attract, mediate, and moderate enzymes to be used in other processes. Without minerals, metabolic enzymatic processes cannot occur.
This is why when minerals are added back to the soil farmers and gardeners see big increases in plant growth.
On the opposite side.
Increases in yield and poor plant growth are associated with modern agricultural techniques that has been stripping too many minerals from the soil.
For ground cover, mulch of wood chips, other biomass mixed with 10% Bio-char (bio-charcoal) can be used for smaller areas.
In commercial settings, a mixed cover crop is an important strategy that will help promote remineralization of the soil by increasing soil microbes that will extract the minerals from the soil, and it is all accelerated with the addition of Bio-char
Nitrogen-fixing crops, such as alfalfa and other grasses, actually have specific bacteria growing on their roots that can grind up rock, thereby producing minerals that support the biome and the soil subsurface to correctly decompose.
There’s always a balance in what’s going on in the soil. There is a huge amount of bacterial diversity and an enormous amount of enzymatic production, Bio-char adds to the efficiency of the process..
Good bacteria leads to great enzymes, which can help incorporate minerals and the nutrients in the plants.
Cover crops control moisture loss, because when you just have bare fields, it dries up and the top soil blows away.
But growing multiple types and different types of crops, we get biological diversity. That allows all sorts of things to develop in the soil or the plants in the soil while the farmer is not cropping more food.
The Key for healthy soil that cover crops provide is diversity.
Growing a wide variety of flowering plants that flower at different times also provides plenty of food for plant pollinators.
Do you have a Victory Garden?
The idea of planting Victory Gardens goes back to World War I and II, and was advertised as a way for American’s to make a difference on the home front.
Planting these gardens helped the citizens combat food shortages by supplying themselves and their neighbors with fresh produce.
Planting your own Victory Garden can go a long way toward healthier eating, and in the long run, it can provide incentive for industry-wide change, and a return to a diet of real food, for everyone, everywhere.
Eat healthy, Be healthy, Live lively.
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Paul Ebeling
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