Natural Fertilizers for Healthy Garden Soil with Minerals Vital for Health

Natural Fertilizers

Healthy garden soil with natural minerals in soil and clay hold nutrients from rockdust as time and erosion release nutrients for plant and human health. I am sure that we would all like to have healthy garden soil which would also mean that there would be minerals in soil. Unfortunately, many places in the world today are badly depleted of minerals in soil. I feel sure that many of us would like to know more about the country they live in and the state of the minerals in soil pertaining to that particular country. It is pleasing to the eye to see and know that natural fertilizers have been used to produce good quality lawns.

The US Senate Document No 264, 1936, 74th Congress spoke of the lack of minerals in American soil and the adverse effect this has on the American people. For further information click on the link below:

US Senate Document No 264, 1936, 74th Congress

Do you think we should have the right to know about the lack of minerals in soil? Don’t you think that the Governments of countries should be advising farmers, in particular, and every day home gardeners on the importance of mineralizing their soils. Doesn’t it make more sense to put minerals in soil so that the general population can achieve better health? I know that I personally would rather use natural fertilizers. In our own home garden we are reluctant to use any of the commercial sprays if we can avoid it. I guess we have to ask the question why do the Governments of countries think that we don’t have the right to know and therefore do something about the situation. When you do more extensive reading you will find that the fertilisation processes that we use can in fact do more harm than good!

By using natural fertilizers and having healthy garden soil we can restore the nutrition and health benefits back, not only to our soil but to the produce it yields. By putting an organic rockdust over our lawns and pastures, not only do we see healthier lawns but the animals that eat the pasture also ingest the minerals which in turn is passed on to us in our food. This can be achieved by using natural fertilizers. We also see healthier vegetation which is less vulnerable to disease.

Natural Lawn Fertilizers
Stan and Jenny Judd of Jamberoo, NSW Australia first experimented on their farm by spreading organic rockdust down the fence line in one paddock. They found that their beef cattle ate this grass down to the roots! The discerning animals left the balance of the paddock uneaten. This is the result of what natural fertilizers can do. Jenny and Stan felt we had the right to know about the importance of minerals in soil and share their story in The Good Life Magazine, Issue No 16 Summer 2007-2008 on page 6.

To read more of their story click on the link below:

Organic Rock Dust

To contact Stan and Jenny for more information on natural fertilizers:

Stan and Jennifer Judd

Percy Weston wrote a book called Cancer: Cause and Cure.

Percy Weston grew tobacco back in the 1920’s and this book is about his early childhood and his experiences in using phosphorous on his farm. It is quite a startling book and well worth reading. For more information on Percy’s story go to the link below:

Percy Weston – Cancer: Cause and Cure

More information on minerals in soil is the story of Dr Julius Hensel.

Dr Julius Hensel back in the 1800’s made a discovery which was so important to mankind.

Julius Hensel was a miller. One day whilst milling grain he saw that some stones went through the milling process. He sprinkled this milled grain with the milled stones over his garden. To his surprise his vegetables took on a new, much more vigorous growth. Because of the results he received, he started to grind stones and to apply the stone meal to fruit trees. Again he was pleasantly surprised. Apple trees that had previously borne wormy, imperfect fruit now produced good fruit, free of worms. He also found that when he used the stone meal on his vegetables that they were free from insect pests and diseases.

This was such an important discovery and we had a right to know more!

He wrote a book telling us about his finds but the Chemical Fertilizer Trust Members succeeded in burying his memory, and destroying his book and had his Stone Meal Fertilizer removed off the market!

With the rebirth of the Organic Movement that has gone through the world, the truth has finally come to the fore. Unfortunately, very few of Dr Hensel’s books remain.

A man called Liebig, a German agricultural chemist was the first person to put forward the theory of chemical fertilization, saying nitrogen, phosphorus and potash were the only major elements required.. This is the basis on which chemical fertilizers were manufactured and still are today.

Hensel stated that plants and trees needed more than these three major elements. He placed emphasis on the importance of trace minerals. No notice was taken of trace minerals at this stage by the fertilizing industry. Hensel recommended a bland form of minerals from pulverized rock. He thought granite which is a primordial rock, that contains the main trace minerals t0 meet the need of nutrition in plants. He seemed to think it was a complete plant food and that it enhanced the poorest of soils.

Vested financial interests behind the fertilizer industry using agricultural authorities and university professors, painted Dr Hensel as a charlatan and told farmers that his Stone Meal Fertilizer was useless.

Hensel made powerful enemies in the chemical fertilizer industry, which resolved to liquidate his Chemical Trust. His Stone Meal business was destroyed and the product removed from the market. The industry also attacked his book, Bread from Stones, they succeeded in suppressing the future publication of his book and had it removed from libraries. Dr Raymond Bernard has one of the few surviving copies of the book.

Dr Raymond Bernard wrote an article called “Bread from Stones”. For more information on this article click on the link below.

Julius Hensel - Bread from Stones