The Element Song

If you'd like a fun lesson in what your carbon-based existence is compromised of, take a listen to "The Element Song." Written by (now 80-year-old) Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer, I first heard this ditty when I connected with the guys at Ocean Grown in Naples, Florida, a few years ago. This company harvests seawater which contains nature's perfect balance of all the 90+ elements (minerals) in the periodic table for use as an agricultural fertilizer. I water my wheatgrass with their concentrated ocean water in order to get the 90+ minerals into the wheatgrass, the juice of which is made that much richer. It is the "demineralization" of our nations soils that has contributed to the poor nutritional quality of even the best farmland. As Dr. Maynard Murray (who pioneered the use of sea salts in agriculture) wrote in his book Sea Energy Agriculture, plants are simply the delivery mechanism in nature to deliver the minerals in the soil to the human body. If "from dust (read "minerals") we have come" (Genesis 2:7; 3:19), then it makes sense that it's minerals we need to sustain ourselves.

Here's Lehrer's song:




Wheatgrass grown with Ocean Grown Solution: