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Re: How to Make Topsoil:

David Yarrow wrote:
> 
> At 04:36 AM 12/25/97 EST, BRateaver wrote:
> >It is good you are promoting Azomite,
> 
> not promoting azomite in particular, but rock powders, trace element
> fertilizers and soil remineralization in general.  i am about to post
> another story about another rockdust fertilizer called "planters."  here in
> new york, i am trying to prod the sand & gravel industry to spread their
> "classifier tailings" ("pond mud") as soil contioner and trace element
> fertilizer.
> 
> >but that is not new.
> 
> quite true. most tradename products have been around centuries.  the notion
> of turning rocks into food is as old as the bible, but even over a century
> ago pioneers were "rediscovering" the old child's teaching game "animal,
> vegetable, mineral" and recommending adding rock powder and stonemeal to
> their soils
> 
> azomite itself has been mined and sold as fertilizer for several decades.
> the current owners (peak minerals) are new to the business, but had capital
> to invest in marketing.
> 
> there's another older guy mining this utah desert clay, too, who claims to
> be the "original."  and there's another company mining another clay seafloor
> deposit in mississippi sold as "flora-stim" (blended) or "strite's dust "
> (raw).  much of this info is detailed at the Champion Tree Project website:
> 
> http://www.danwinter.com/ChampionTrees/rockdust.html
> 
> soon joanna campe of "remineralize the earth" journal will have her own
> website on-line with more information about soil minerals.
> 
> >I have talked about that particular fossil clay for decades. Yes, it is good.
> 
> glad to read your confirmation of the milarch's discovery.  i've not used
> azomite much yet myself.  i had a bag in 1990 that brought houseplants out
> of winter comatose stasis of minimum growth into robust, full flowered
> bushes crowding all over my windows.  but i haven't done much gardening for
> six years due to severe disabilities.  and in the '80's i was on the road
> organizing farmers.....
> 
> but nearly every (but not every) soil and plant i fed rockdust to showed
> remarkable vigor and prolific propagation the next year.  everyone who had
> this explained agreed the dusts made a startling difference.
> 
> "fossil clay" is a good name for this utah desert dust.  still doesn't
> explain what this remarkable material is, but it's not a "rockdust."
> because it's parent material isn't rock, but clay sediment from watery solution.
> 
> ~ david
> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
> David Yarrow at TurtleEyeland
> P.O. Box 6034, Albany, NY 12206
> 518-458-8144
> dyarrow@igc.org
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