so we're back at the composting area we've collected all of the materials
that we're going to use for our compost let's call it a designer compost for
permaculture just remember even though we're gonna use a very materials that we
have on our farm it's a big farm we do a big garden if you you compost with what
you have so anything organic can be composted and you make the best compost
that you can make okay and then over time you may start with this and then
you can develop more resource connections and get more resources and
you can improve your compost a good diversified compost is going to have a
diversified ingredients and that's where we can have a different minerals in our
compost but before we look at that I want to talk to you about where it is
the minerals come from in the first place okay so it's great to understand
compost but how do we get minerals in there in the first place so in a
naturalized state we're under this large tree the tree has a large root system
the root system will go down to the substrate or rock profile that's under
this soil they have soil down to the rock profile different places it's
different depths okay the tree will then put its roots into the anaerobic
condition in an anaerobic which we'll look at on another practical series
tomorrow in an anaerobic condition the anaerobic bacteria can actually break
rock down and convert rock into water soluble minerals so the minerals that we
find in our vegetables are get to the vegetable through the tree taking the
water soluble minerals up through its roots that are being breaking down into
anaerobic condition through the tree mass into the leaves the leaves fall
down in the forested system it makes the humic material so this is the first step
trees creating the mineral cycle from our rock substrate so the minerals
present on our particular property are going to be tied to the parent rock
material so if that particular parent rock material was missing a particular
mineral that we may deem as necessary we could add those minerals to our soil
we'll look at that tomorrow in the anaerobic composting series and how to
add minerals but right now we have these minerals so this would break down so if
I compost this these minerals will then become available in my compost to be put
to my vegetable so that I would have the correct mineral proof
my vegetable mineral originally originating at the rock layer in a
concept what's a problem in the West or in Western eyes or even around the world
now we're taking the minerals from our properties we're eating them and for the
most part a lot we go to the toilet and we flush our minerals down the toilet
they go out to the ocean and we dump them into the ocean
so we're demineralizing our soils so a lot of the soils it took thousands of
years for the trees to create the leaves to create the mineral profile that's in
the soil that we now use in modern agriculture in order to grow our food
and every year there's less and less minerals so they can even do studies
where they found like you take for instance like broccoli sold in 1940 in
the United States and broccoli sold in Whole Foods today there's a 40%
reduction in the minerals in the food okay so we've taken something and in a
process of 70 years we've demineralized our soil base by set by that forty
percent if we continue to do that well ill health ill health is tied to mineral
deficiencies so almost all disease is tied back to mineral deficiencies a
really great book to read is called soil and cancer where it's a veterinarian
study that they did in France where they would go and every time there's
something wrong with the animals they look at the food source they find out
that the animals getting a mineral deficiency at which time it causes the
disease they change the food source to add that mineral into the animals diets
no no drugs and the animal recovers if we're eating animals that are eating bad
food sources and we're eating plants that are demineralized because the soil
doesn't have the mineral profile will be unhealthy also so one of the problems
with modern agriculture and the concept of organic is I go to the farmers market
and they have no concept of where the food was grown and is that farmer
mineralizing the soil so if the minerals are not present in the soil the mineral
cannot be present in the food so you may have a tomato that looks like a tomato
and this tomato looks like this tomato and they look identical but this one had
a better soil profile it will have more minerals right for our health in this
tomato they'll look the same they'll even taste
the same you can't taste minerals so this is something that is a permaculture
list we want to work on how to get the minerals into our soils in order to get
them into our foods so that's probably for me more important than any other
aspect even more important than whether or not there was pesticides on the food
guys is whether it had minerals okay at first step so we're going to work on
that soil so we're looking at composting tomorrow we'll look at how to get
minerals
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