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Fantastic Plant Growth - Remineral Your Garden With Volcanic Rock Dust
Fantastic Plant Growth - Remineral Your Garden With Volcanic Rock Dust
ROCKDUST IS CATCHING THE IMAGINATION Cameron & Moira share how they achieved this
of gardeners and farmers and its use is spreading and why they are so enthusiastic about spreading the ben-
in the UK and beyond. Consumer demand is bring- efits of Rockdust.
ing Rockdust’s miracle effects into our gardens and Moira points to her daughter holding a huge
farms and into the environmental, farming and freshly cut calabrese head weighing 1.75 kg, saying, “this
food debates. kind of food contains all the nutrients, energy and natural forces
The SEER Centre Trust was established as a that nature intended our food should bestow to us - all food sold
Recognised Scottish Charity in 1997, following 13 years pio- in all markets and shops should be grown with rockdust!
neering work by co-founders Cameron & Moira Thomson, Mineral Replacement Therapy (MRT) with Rock-
advocating Rockdust as The Solution to achieving Sustain- dust is natural fertility treatment. NPK chemical fertilisers,
able Ecological Earth Regeneration. The SEER Centre which cause ecological imbalances and soil erosion, are not. If
is a working model for conversion to sustainable organic we humans can manage to cover the Earth’s soils with various
“remineralised” agriculture by application of rockdusts and chemicals several times a year to chemically grow our crops, we
recycled municipal composts for soil creation, maximum can surely cover Earth’s soils with Rockdust!
soil fertility, minimal soil erosion and maximum protection We believe that using Rockdust on a global scale for
from climate-change weather extremes. The charity aims to sustainable organic gardening, agriculture, forestry and compost-
attract scientific research into the benefits of Rockdust. ing can boost fertility and regenerate natural ecosystems which,
Since 1997, on the foothills of the Grampian in turn, can nourish our increasing populations with nutrient-rich
mountains in Strathardle, Perthshire, the infertile, acidic, organic foods for current and future generations”.
upland grassland site, although exposed to severe weather at
1000 feet, has been transformed into an ecologically diverse SUSTAINABLE SOILS
environment by the Thomson’s soil creation with rockdusts Soil is our most important and fragile resource. The fertile
and municipal composts. (This growing medium is called soils in volcanic areas like Lanzorotti are productive and
“SEER Rocksoil”). Remarkable terraced gardens have high yielding due to the abundance of minerals and trace
been created. Deep fertile soils produce convincing heavy elements in volcanic soils. BBC Horizon, “The Blue Nile”
mineral-rich crops of tasty organic vegetables, fruit and in 2004, traced the Blue Nile to its origins in the highlands
bright flowers. of Ethiopia where the weathering of volcanic rock flow-
Telocratic
Mesocratic
Oligocratic
170 yrs
2,800 years 3,000 years 5,000 years
10,800 years
(Dr. Johannes Iversen, State Geologist, and
Svend Th. Andersen, Geological Survey of Denmark, 1960’s) HUMAN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGES
At the end of the Mesocratic phase there was a slight global
cooling. Our species response was to stop being nomadic; do-
During the Protocratic phase the Earth turned green. mesticate our animals; build villages and towns and introduce
Pioneer trees grew in the crushed rock and dropped leaves politicians and taxation.
which biodegraded to form soil. At the end of the Oligocratic phase 170 years ago,
our species response was to apply lime to the acidic land; mine
During the Mesocratic phase Global for ores; cut down forests to make charcoal for iron smelt-
average soil depth was 7.5 feet. ing, emit more carbon into the atmosphere. This response,
Trees during this “post -glacial climatic optimum” phase 170 years ago, was the Industrial Revolution. The Telocratic
were up to 8 times bigger in bulk than any trees left on Earth phase lasts 170 years! Our species response, at the end of the
today. Deserts of sand and rock in the Tropics were minimal, Telocratic phase is the Technological Revolution!
as were the ice sheets. Atmospheric carbon was 270ppm (to-
day it is 378ppm). The carbon that was once in the deep soil WARMING OR COOLING?
and giant trees has returned to the atmosphere, along with Oceanographers are telling us “global warming” is melting
our fossil fuel emissions. Today soil depth is 4.5 – 7.5 inches. the edges of the ice caps and we may be in a stage of transi-
tion into global cooling because the melting freshwater ice
The main feature of the Oligocratric phase is cools the warm ocean currents, such as the Gulf stream, that
soil demineralisation and soil acidification. keep our British climate warm.
As the minerals in our soils were depleted, the soil chemistry When the sun’s rays strike the Earth, there is more
and the type of tree cover changed. The Caledonian forest heat impact in lower latitudes, the Tropics, than in higher
appeared 6,000 years ago in Scotland. Before that, during latitudes. Also, the sun shines on lower latitudes all year long,
the Mesocratic phase, a mainly deciduous thick impenetra- but not on higher latitudes. Since the Industrial Revolution
ble forest covered Scotland. People lived on the coasts. our species has been, and still is, “turning up the volume”
of the greenhouse effect - the Earth’s warming mechanism
The main feature of the final Telocratic phase, - mainly in the lower latitudes. Because the lower latitudes
which lasts 170 ± 45 years, is soil erosion, are hotter than normal, more water than normal evaporates
when torrential rainstorms wash whatever minerals are left and is transported to the higher latitudes. It passes over
in the soil into the rivers and seas, ending in an approximate the temperate zone middle latitudes in both hemispheres,
20 year transition into glaciation. producing more cloud than normal (contributing to global
CLIMATE CHANGE
S U N ’ S R AY S
Large surface area