Grow Food for Nutrient Quality

In earlier centuries, agriculture grew crops for bulk yield.  Now, in the 21st Century, serious farmers grow food with high nutrient content, and serious consumers seek nutrition, flavor & health.  The new focus is on food quality and health, measured as optimum nutrient levels.  Nutriculture goes "beyond organic" to a food production system that yields crops & foods with complete nutrition to nourish and regenerate human health.

Nutrient-dense food begins as nutrient-rich soil.  Complete, balanced, living soils grow healthy, vigorous plants with full flavor, no diseases, and long shelf life.  Nutriculture instructs growers how to achieve and sustain optimum conditions in their soils, a process that at minimum is 3 growing cycles.  This begins with a soil analysis, but the key is to populate soil with thriving colonies of microbes to form a Soil Food Web.

Ultimately, "nutrient-dense" is measured as amounts of minerals, sugars, proteins, oils, vitamins and other metabolites in plant tissue.  New science offers advanced tools & methods to monitor & document nutrient levels in growing crops and store-bought foods.  No national standards for food nutrients currently exists, but the Nutriculture movement is confident we can grow crops with at least as much minerals & vitamins as 1940, when the USDA first began to publish this data.