Q. How does structured water allow for reduced chemical usage on the farm?
A. In regenerative ag, eco ag, holistic agriculture, etc., we have this term, “the cropping system effect.” The cropping system effect happens when you’re doing multi-species cover crops, and you’re grazing, and your adding compost, and you’re intercropping, and you’re doing other things to increase biodiversity. Each one is like a little mini hammer. It’s not just one of those practices that is enabling the farm to be healthier. It’s the combination of them that means the soil is healthier and the plants are healthier and more resilient to pests, and, thereby, you reduce the need for pesticide application.
Structured water is just another one of these little mini hammers that produces the cropping system effect. It increases the vitality of the living system. Structured water is water whose structure is rearranged so that it’s more easily assimilated into the cellular structure and can thus influence cellular metabolism. It happens very fast and at an incredible nanoscale. It enables us to take advantage of this growing field called quantum biology.
To put that into the big-picture context, I would argue that there are three different eras of agriculture. The chemical era came about in the early 1900s. People were figuring out how atoms work. When I went to college in the 1970s, a lot of my professors had grown up on farms, hoeing weeds by hand with their families, and so it kind of made sense that they were promoting herbicides and all these chemicals in agriculture — they were trying to remove the drudgery of farming for families. It was a real gift to farmers to have the ability to control pests with chemicals. We have a deep and sophisticated knowledge about chemicals now.
And then in the 1980s and ’90s, the soil biology era really got going. The idea of the soil food web became popular. That’s expanded today, and now we have things like the Haney soil test and even metagenomic soil testing. We know now how important rhizosphere is — how microbes and extract minerals and feed nutrients to plants. The soil biology era, which we’re still in, is expanding and growing.
And what I’m saying is that the era of quantum biology, or the subtle energy era, is next. Some people have talked about it for a long time, but it’s slowly catching on, and I think it’s going to grow more rapidly and have wider acceptance. Structured water is just one part of that.
From a recent Acres U.S.A. webinar with Steve Diver. Meet Steve at this year’s Acres U.S.A. Eco-Ag conference — our 50th! — where he’ll be speaking on “Biophysics and Structured Water in Agriculture.” December 1-4 in Madison, Wisconsin. conference.eco-ag.com
