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{"id":1557,"date":"2015-08-04T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cascademineralsnw.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2015-11-10T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:54:00","slug":"soil-remineralization-rock-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cascademinerals.com\/soil-amendment\/soil-remineralization-rock-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Remineralization: Revitalizing Essential Ecosystems with Rock Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"It\u2019s easy to become overwhelmed by looking at a newspaper or watching a report on the state of our planet\u2019s essential ecosystems. Soil erosion, soil depletion, diminishing soil fertility and declining crop nutrition. It\u2019s enough to make a person want to stick his or her head into the sand\u2014as long as drought hasn\u2019t turned it into cement, that is.<\/p>\n
Sigh. The news can\u2019t be all bad, can it?<\/p>\n
Fortunately, not everything is dire. By declaring 2015 as The International Year of the Soil, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has made more people aware of the current state of our world\u2019s soils. It\u2019s not too late to begin reversing what it\u2019s only taken mankind a few decades to destroy.<\/p>\n
In fact, one of the tools already at our disposal is soil remineralization with rock dust. Soil remineralization is the process of returning minerals to the soil by mimicking the Earth\u2019s own natural methods. Instead of glaciers and volcanoes, however, remineralization is the process of adding finely crushed rocks to soil that has been depleted of minerals over the course of decades either through natural weathering or by over-farming.<\/p>\n
Silicate rocks like basalt, in particular, contain the broadest spectrum of minerals and trace elements that are essential to plant health and nutrition. (Read more in an earlier blog post: \u201cRock Dust Made of Volcanic Basalt Delivers a Diversity of Minerals<\/a>.\u201d)<\/p>\nThe benefits of remineralization with rock dust are well documented. Here are just a few positive proof points:<\/p>\n
\n- \u201cSoil remineralization has been shown in scientific studies to achieve fourfold increases in agricultural and forestry (wood volume) yields and to produce both immediate and long-term benefits from a single application.\u201d (Source: Remineralize.org)<\/li>\n
- One of the most comprehensive studies of the benefits of volcanic basalt dates back decades and came from D. Hotman de Villiers who conducted a series of long-term field trials on highly degraded soil that led to increased sugarcane yields on the island of Mauritius.<\/li>\n
- In deforested cattle land in Costa Rica, Jatrophra trees that received rock dust produced larger and more abundant seeds and grew more vigorously than trees that did not. (Source: Remineralize.org)<\/li>\n
- The country of Brazil has gone as far as to enact legislation that includes soil remineralization as part of its agricultural policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Remineralization with mineral-rich rock dust is key to the revitalization of our biologic ecosystems and it is encouraging to see these initiatives taking place. And remember\u2014no change is too small. Begin by remineralizing the soil in your backyard and help raise global awareness of Earth\u2019s \u201cliving skin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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