I have been eating mostly raw food for 5 years or so however I feel I have an advantage over 95% of raw foodists. My introduction to the whole process included an explanation of what creates nutrition - which in a word is - minerals - in the soil. There are so few farmers, nutritionists or anyone who understands this principle. Simply said, minerals create vitamins, enzymes, protein and bioavailable minerals in plants. Without minerals being replenished in the soil, getting these things is a hit or miss process. Raw food in itself is definitely a step in the right direction, but realistically it is only about 20 or 30% of the whole picture! Real food with minerals, if you've ever eaten it, is unmistakable! Rudolph Steiner's programs and colleges were based on this principle. Go to [remineralize.org] and hear how people are growing food on rocky soil, with added minerals, and getting vegetables twice the normal size, with all possible nutrition, and insect resistance as a side benefit!
I am scouring the web to find sources of minerally dense foods. So far, I have found (and absolutely verified) only two: [Lifeforce.com] and [avena-originals-nutrition.com]
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I grow a few vegetables outside my window in my apartment. I use rock powder and organic compost to enrich the soil in my planters. I am definitely a big fan of food grown with rock powder.

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That's really a great suggestion. I'm going to suggest to my community garden group that we use rock dust this spring, in addition to the organic compost we're already using, and see if it doesn't make a huge difference.

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I don't know if you saw a recent discussion we had on here regarding the addition of a little sea salt, or salt water, to the soak water for sprouts, it has great benefits. I can't remember the exact quantities that were mentioned..

if anyone knows of any good UK sources for rock powder/dust, I'd love to hear about it.



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Plants will take up minerals if pH is right for uptake.

Rock dusts and compost are great for soil as is diversity of micro-organisms. Green mulches (cut weeds) help return nutrients to soil as well as help keep weeds down and encourage aeration and micro-organism activity. Someone suggested to me that placing rocks of different types around the garden introduced energetically nutrients to needy plants, also with phenomenal growth.

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and listening to the plants, and spending time with them helps. If you haven't figured it out, I love plants.