Researchers are finding that when pulverized rock is applied to agricultural fields, the soil pulls far more carbon from the air and crop yields increase. More studies are underway, but some scientists say this method shows significant benefits for farmers and the climate.
Demineralization occurs rapidly on intensively farmed and tropical soils. Rock dust can reverse this process, rebuilding and restoring life to the soil.
Soil fertility is indeed a widespread global problem. Unless farmers develop creative solutions, people will struggle to grow food in the coming years.
Earth’s Rapidly Degrading Soil Is Bad News For Human Health
“It’s like that old saying, ‘If mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy,’ says soil advocate, Holly Arbuckle. “In order to have nutrient dense food, [and healthy people] we need healthy soil.”
Stranger than fiction, from the NASA website… “The myco-architecture project out of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is prototyping technologies that could “grow” habitats on the Moon, Mars and beyond out of life – specifically, fungi and the unseen underground threads that make up the main part of the fungus, known as mycelia.”
Could Future Homes on the Moon and Mars Be Made of Fungi?
Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand. But the reality may be even stranger – and “greener”.
Too late if you want to keep the solar system clean of these little killers, they decide which plants they allow to exist on earth, and therefore we are only here but for the grace of fungi.
NASA finds black mold fungus can survive on Mars — and it poses a threat to astronauts
Microbial hitchhikers like the black mold fungus can potentially survive on Mars and pose a threat to astronauts looking to set up camp on the fourth planet
NIAC funded this research already. Who knows what will come of it but there are plenty of planets out there that could do with a bit of a garden if you ask me.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, determined that sand and rocks from a Mojave basalt mine are similar to the Martian surface. Now a company is marketing the Mars farming experience.
Gravel dust could also help with soil nutrient supplementation.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-adding-rock-dust-to-soil-can-help-get-carbon-into-the-ground
People have been experimenting with gravel dust farming for several years now and with some very positive results.
Soil fertility is indeed a widespread global problem. Unless farmers develop creative solutions, people will struggle to grow food in the coming years.
Stranger than fiction, from the NASA website… “The myco-architecture project out of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is prototyping technologies that could “grow” habitats on the Moon, Mars and beyond out of life – specifically, fungi and the unseen underground threads that make up the main part of the fungus, known as mycelia.”
It’s everywhere. only tardigrades will survive in space now, the die is cast.
Too late if you want to keep the solar system clean of these little killers, they decide which plants they allow to exist on earth, and therefore we are only here but for the grace of fungi.
This is likely the video the op is referring to https://youtu.be/ma_175NNfZs
NIAC funded this research already. Who knows what will come of it but there are plenty of planets out there that could do with a bit of a garden if you ask me.
They make it ” as dead as we can make it” – nasa covered it.
You can buy the martian soil in their site’s shop https://www.themartiangarden.com/pn-shop-main Happy growing
This looked promising – but they didn’t get enough backers