Balance your soil organically and sustainably to grow healthy, nutrient dense food that nourishes mind, body and spirit.
The top six inches of soil (the “ecstatic skin” of the Earth) lies at the intersection of earth, air, water and life. In this zone balance is critical; not too much and not too little of the necessary elements is the key to thriving, vibrant life. At Grow Abundant Gardens we help you achieve this balance with an amendment prescription tailored for your soil.
When grown in a mineral balanced soil, fruits and vegetables naturally provide your body with the elements you need for a balanced, healthy life. A thriving soil grows knock-your-socks-off food while it spreads health and abundance now and into the future.
If it isn’t in the soil, it won’t be in your food.
Modern chemical farming methods mine the soil of essential nutrients. They deliver the major elements for plant growth to the crop in a water solution, force-feeding the plants while polluting the water supply with fertilizer runoff. Unfortunately new agribizz organic farming methods have been developed that mimic chemical farming methods, and they produce food that is no more nutritious than their chemical cousin’s methods. The nutritional value of our food has declined dramatically in the last century, while the focus in farming has turned to yield and profit. Our bodies are starving for good nutrient dense food. That’s why even a green bean can taste fantastic, if it contains what your body needs.
Organic mineral balance supports sustainable growing.
Compost and the addition of organic matter can increase the biological life in the soil, but in the long run the soil will be depleted of essential minerals if they are not replaced. The plants will suffer along with the gardener. If the gardener is lucky enough to have a rich nutrient dense, balanced soil to begin with, this may take a fairly long time. But often times gardens are on marginal land – urban, hilly, sandy, rocky, tiny, farmed out, hard, etc., and their mineral “bank account” is already overdrawn. These soils especially need the help that mineral balancing can bring.
On Earth we have less and less land available to produce food for a growing population. Agribizz would have us buy all of our food, genetically modified and petroleum intensive. As humans we need to relearn how to grow our own food, not just as a hobby, but seriously, to secure our lives and the lives of our children.
Soil minerals must be balanced and available in order to grow nutrient dense food.
There is a combination of soil minerals and microbes that plants love and that helps them thrive. Compost and compost teas are great for providing the microbes. But the minerals can become depleted and unbalanced as year after year the soil is farmed and the crop is removed.
Erica and I gardened organically for decades, always “building the soil” with compost and organic matter. Every year there was a new excuse as to why our garden didn’t thrive — the weather or the bugs or the seeds…
Finally Erica did the research. She found that a combination of nutrients and minerals that is just right for providing the plant nutrients that animals need to thrive had been developed by Dr. William Albrecht in the 1950′s and this system had been adapted by various leading edge agronomists over the years. She found that most soils can be amended to create the ideal conditions for gardening. By measuring the soil nutrients in the soil (taking a soil test) it is possible to determine just what is needed to bring a garden (your garden) to optimum fertility.
We are determined to share this method with as many gardeners as possible!
Soil analysis can be a daunting task. It can take years to understand a soil report properly and years to understand how to make recommendations properly. We have developed an online calculation tool (OrganiCalc) that can be used by anyone, even the most “math impaired” gardener.
For the good of people’s health we are determined to share this method with as many gardeners as possible! It works!
Why add fertilizers your soil doesn’t need?.
Let’s face it. Those little boxes of fertilizer at the garden store are expensive. Wouldn’t it be better to know exactly what your garden needs, rather than to guess and give it something that won’t help, while not adding just the thing that will help? And why add too much of something you’ve already got?
Gardening for the next generation.
We intend to help you build a balanced reserve of plant nutrients in your soil. This is part of leaving a legacy of better soil for our children and their children. The time has come for us to all grow our food a little closer to home and there is nothing like fresh veggies straight from a balanced garden. When you build up your garden soil rather than mining the nutrients out of it, you are leaving the world a better place.
Optimum Soil Fertility Means:
- Better tasting food
- More nutritious food
- Better plant disease resistance
- Vibrant plant health
- Better insect resistance
- Healthy, abundant fruits, vegetables and flowers
We are members of the Soil Analyst Cooperative
The Soil Analyst Cooperative is a worldwide group of people who are dedicated to making this system of soil mineralization accessible to everyone everywhere. Check out the cooperative’s web site, http://soilanalyst.org/, for more details.
