When I first started gardening in 1970, I amended my soil with blood meal, alfalfa, soybean, or cottonseed meal. But, now, they all contain GMOs thanks to Monsanto. I now use kelp meal, worm castings from red wigglers fed organic produce wastes, and composted leaves, unsprayed grass clippings, and a variety of animal manures from livestock not grown with GMO grains or grasses.
What goes into the soil comes out in food, so I am extremely careful with my supplements.
Can glacial till be used to add minerals OR will it put unwanted heavy metals like chromium 6, arsenic, lead, mercury, and other poisons?
From peer reviewed studies around the world, I'm learning that GMOs include high levels of herbicide and antibiotic resistant bacteria such as
Clostridium botulinum. C. botulism if found at poultry houses, it is also found if dairy livestock in Germany an the source IS animal feed sprayed with Glyphosate resistant herbicides and the pathogenic bacteria to which the feed is resistant. See M.Krueger et al, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016. This highly resistant bacteria is killing dairy cows, is was found at farms, in farm house dust, and in the feces of the animals, humans, and human children with dire consequences!
Suggestions are wanted on other uncontaminated sources of soil amendments to add beneficial minerals to the soil.
When I first started gardening in 1970, I amended my soil with blood meal, alfalfa, soybean, or cottonseed meal. But, now, they all contain GMOs thanks to Monsanto. I now use kelp meal, worm castings from red wigglers fed organic produce wastes, and composted leaves, unsprayed grass clippings, and a variety of animal manures from livestock not grown with GMO grains or grasses.
What goes into the soil comes out in food, so I am extremely careful with my supplements.
Can glacial till be used to add minerals OR will it put unwanted heavy metals like chromium 6, arsenic, lead, mercury, and other poisons?
From peer reviewed studies around the world, I'm learning that GMOs include high levels of herbicide and antibiotic resistant bacteria such as
Clostridium botulinum. C. botulism if found at poultry houses, it is also found if dairy livestock in Germany an the source IS animal feed sprayed with Glyphosate resistant herbicides and the pathogenic bacteria to which the feed is resistant. See M.Krueger et al, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016. This highly resistant bacteria is killing dairy cows, is was found at farms, in farm house dust, and in the feces of the animals, humans, and human children with dire consequences!
Suggestions are wanted on other uncontaminated sources of soil amendments to add beneficial minerals to the soil.
Thanks!
Susan Snow