How important is healthy soil? Well, you are what you eat and you are also what your food eats. That means if chemical fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides, were used while growing your fruits and vegetables, that’s what you are eating!
“If we are what our food eats, we are only as healthy as the soil our food is grown in,” writes integrative neurologist Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, in The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids With Food Straight From Soil.
Unfortunately, our modern chemical farming has changed the nutritional value of the food we eat. Several studies have shown a nutritional decline in the produce grown.
Experience Life explains how chemical and synthetic compounds have a huge impact on human health
The use of chemical fertilizers disrupts the natural relationship between plants and microorganisms. Rather than receiving nutrients from the soil and its microbes, plants are force-fed synthetic compounds — often derived from petroleum — that are designed to maximize plant growth and yield. Think of this as similar to feeding a human being a towering pile of pizzas: The plants get more nutrients than they need in a year, and it hardly comes from the most nutritious food.
Insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides affect far more living things than the target organisms listed on the label; sometimes they kill key ecosystem players. Fungicides, for instance, can also destroy the beneficial fungi in the soil that link plant communities and help plants access nutrients, water, and protective chemicals. Overall, these chemicals reduce biodiversity, which is as important in the farm ecosystem as in any other.
Whether you have a farm or a home garden, it is important to have naturally healthy soil for nutritional fruits and vegetables. That starts with organic soil amendments such as black worm castings, vermiplex, black sea kelp, coral calcium, hydrolyzed fish, liquid humate plus, and liquid yucca extract.
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