If you look at a bag of chemical fertilizer, you’ll see a series of three numbers, like 10-30-10 or 15-5-30. That’s the NPK rating. It’s the percentage of available Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potassium a fertilizer contains, which gets sucked up into the roots to build your fruits and vegetables.

NPK is the minimum criteria required to grow a plant. It has been used since
the late 1800’s by farmers and gardeners all over the world. Though other
minerals will have an effect on the plant’s growth and nutritional quality, we
know that for the majority of edible plants, as long as the Big Three are in
place, your seeds will grow up to become crops.

But NPK farming doesn’t account for the total web of Life: the complex system
of exchanges between the plant and all aspects of the environment surrounding
it. We have learned that nothing is truly defined in this world until its
environment has also been included in that definition.

There are 92 minerals essential for thriving, abundant life. After a few seasons of “conventional” farming, most of these minerals have been sucked out of the soil, and you’re left with imbalanced crops with low nutritional value, poorer flavor, and shorter shelf life. Only natural means of replenishing the soil really do the trick.

So then...why would we choose a program that neglects quality, if the results reveal such an obvious difference? (click here to read the rest of the story)

Conventional Farming