Soil Remineralization, Mount Saint Helens, and the benifits of a Volcano eruption

Potato harvest was coming up quickly and the framers in the area were hand digging little test sites to see what they were in for that year.

Lamb Weston a local potato processing facility was hearing rumors and seeing samples of oversized potatoes being brought into their operational offices. The samples were huge and bigger than normal, and concern in the production areas were beginning to arise.
The potatoes were bigger than normal but with no hollow rot, or end rot. Water had been cut back a month or so earlier to slow the growth but for reasons unknown by most, at that time. All types of plants were growing huge, there were cases reporting 8 to 10 pound potatoes. Sugar beets were topping 30 pounds and more.

What was happening?

What was happening was happening on the micro level. Plants were getting what they were needing and getting it in unlimited quantities.
The eruption of Mount Saint Helens was in a sense, a giant mixing bowl. Crushing and heating and mixing all the near surface and deep earth elements together. These elements that are the basic building blocks for all living life on earth.
This was delivered by the wind in bite size pieces easily utilized by the plants themselves.
The plants didn’t have to work hard to extract it from the soil. So with their needs were being met the plant was growing larger and healthlier.
That year and for a few more years following it, there where bumper corps for the farmers, but like everything this was both good and bad for them.
The laws of supply and demand was being the usual back-side kicker here. Massive harvested amounts drove the prices down and the man at the working end of the shovel felt the pinch most. But as time went on the crop sizes deceased and the prices went up. Many farmers went back to the producers of fertierizers and bought and paid for the commercial products; applying them to their fields. Which did what they were designed to do.
There were those that had paid attention to what really was happening to their corps on the micro level and these folks went back out to their barrow pits and to their low laying areas and collected the fine power that they had deposited there years earlier.
They dug it back up and using their fertilizer spreaders they reapplied this volcanic material and thus remineralized once again their soil and their corps.

Once again the plants responded in return by growing large and healthy.

Nature has a way of balancing itself, (in spite of mans best efforts). Man has no idea what nature is or needs, not really, it is all a educated guess at best. But as time marches on, it is mans responsibility to take notice of our planets natural patterns and to mimic them and live within its laws.
One such way is to use natural sources of natural deposits of this remineralization material and one such deposit is located outside a small community in central Utah. A sleeping volcano call; Red Dome.

Within every piece of its foamed obsidian material is found the following elements: carbon, oxygen, iron, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorous, sulfur, potassium, calcium, titanium, and manganese. The plants main needs require the following elements; calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur, and manganese.

Next time we’ll talk about foamed obsidian and grey water treatment. Nature calls this “bogs” or “wetlands”.