Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Bounty from the Sea
Sea energy agriculture, which is growing foods with sea solids as fer-
tilizer, provides a means for improving our chemical intake without sac-
rificing our eating habits. Our meats, vegetables, fruits and cereals would
all be adequately balanced with the essential elements simply by growing
all crops with sea salt technology.
It has been shown by agronomists that soil may contain a large amount
of one particular combination of elements, yet the plants cannot absorb
them. The complex molecules of living tissue in plants and animals are
made possible by the carbon atom. The linking up process is made pos-
sible by the various elements in combinations called catalysts and these
catalysts invariably have a critical minor element or “trace element” that
apparently serves as the key to their function. The presence or absence of
a trace element can be the deciding factor in determining whether a ne-
cessary element is absorbed into the plant's root system. The balance of
elements must be right in the soil for plants to synthesize their complete
chemistry.
Tomatoes serve as an example of the need for this balance. There may
be a few individuals who know as much about raising tomatoes as I do,
but there's nobody who knows more. Tomato growers know that potassi-
um is a macro element, or an element with a major function in the plant's
growth. Potassium is added to the soil in quantity by tomato growers. Yet
the tomato itself has only a minor amount of potassium in the mature
product. My hydroponic experiments proved conclusively that only a
small amount of potassium, as found in its proper balance in sea water,
was needed to grow outstanding crops of unusually healthy tomatoes.
My point is that it is unnecessary to fertilize heavily with one element or
another if an adequate balance of elements can be made available for the
plant's use.
— Maynard Murray, M.D. in Sea Energy Agriculture
While some of Murray's early research was with plain ocean water and he saw many be-
nefits from this, he eventually moved to more concentrated forms of ocean water, as trans-
