When we look at the soil we use to grow our food, we usually see nothing more than dirt. However, there is a vast biological world within the dirt that we never give a second thought to. Soil contains organic matter known as humus—the life source for the plant world—that can be divided into three main components (called humates or humic substances) known as: Humic Acid, Fulvic Acid and Humin.

Unlike compost, which is man-made and only biologically active for a few years, humates are literally active for thousands of years. In fact, humates are the largest source of non-living organic matter on the planet and one of the largest reserves of organic carbon found in Nature. Carbon is the fourth most abundWant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known life forms, and in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen.

This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds and their unusual polymer-forming ability at the temperatures commonly encountered on earth, make this element the chemical basis of all known life. #BlackOxygenOrganics