Soil Quality & Our Food Supply

Add comment June 2nd, 2009

We always hear, you are what you eat.   Raw plant based foods have the building blocks and living enzymes our bodies crave that enable us to live exceptional healthy lives.  The quality of our food is directly related with the quality of our soil.  In our modern conventional world we add chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides to our food & soil which in essence contributes to demineralized soil & food  as well as people’s health problems.  This modern practice doesn’t really benefit anyone or their health and simply services the pockets of the primarily profit motivated food industry.  

It is important to improve the quality of our soil & food supply.   We must have minerals in our soil to create life.  Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, calcium, potassium, iodine, selenium, zinc, copper, iron, sulfur, etc.   Nitrogen is a powerful component – thick, black, carbon rich soil.   We can get these minerals back into the soil by goiing to the sources that have them.  One source is crushed rocks and you may go to a gravel quarry and ask for a bucket for your garden.  Another source is ocean water and mycorrhizal fungi which can be purchased online.  When a plant does not have the salt it needs it has to produce salt from other minerals and can be done through converting potassium into sodium.  The presence of these minerals allows plants to reach their potential and when consumed we are able to experience stronger immune systems and optimal health.                                  Preparing meals from raw plant based foods is not only good for you but delicious too.   You don’t have to settle for plain veggie sticks.  Recreating those comfort foods are amazingly possible and RAWlicious too.  Your body will thank you.