Hi Kyle! Awesome page, awesome vibe! I also am constantly striving to bring my gardening techniques into greater harmony with Mother Nature and do everything in my power to be environmentally and ecologically conscious--everything I can to live a sustainable, organic lifestyle and leave a light footprint on the Earth. I have the utmost respect and compassion for our cohabitants of this planet and want to see all... industries become ethical and humane in their treatment of animals and conscious of their impact on ecosystems and species.
That being said, I have to ask if you are aware of the facts regarding the source of P in the nutrients you are recommending (canna bio, go biothrive, etc.)--the vegan alternative to phosphorous-rich, non-vegan sources like bone meal, bat and seabird guano, hydrolyzed fish, chicken manure, etc--rock phosphate. Unfortunately, the mining of hard and soft rock phosphate from the Earth for fertilizer, much like the practice of drilling for oil, has been a completely unsustainable practice--one that has now almost completely eliminated the planet's phosphate mineral reserves. In other words, we have reached peak phosphorus. This means essentially all of the phosphorus that used to be in mineral deposits within the Earth (well, all that hasn't already ended up as pollution in rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, groundwater, etc. because of the widespread use of chemical nutrients containing water-soluble forms of P) is now in the plants we have grown with it, in the bodies of the animals who have eaten these plants, and in the waste of these animals (including humanure)...
Soo... basically, it isn't environmentally responsible at this time to promote the use of nutrients containing rock phosphate. The use of rock phosphate has to be quickly phased out of organic gardening and agriculture/horticulture in general. The only way to recycle all of the phosphorus that has been mined from the Earth is to grow with composted plant matter, guano, manure, bone meal, hydrolyzed fish, etc.
In other words, gardening can't be environmentally-friendly, organic, sustainable AND 100% vegan. Rather, instead of simply refusing to use animal sources of fertilizer, all of us who care about the ethical, non-exploitative treatment of animals need to seek new and improved, humane methods of acquiring P-rich animal sources of fertilizer. This shouldn't be that hard. Vegans and vegetarians who don't want to support farms who raise animals for food can enrich their garden soil and/or potting mix with compost made of vegetable scraps, dead leaves, yard clippings and worm castings and begin to devise sustainable methods of harvesting high-P wild bat and bird droppings from caves and/or beneath bat boxes and bird houses. Ethical meat-eaters have the option of adding in composted manure and bone meal from free-range organic farms and hydrolyzed fish and fish bone meal from organic fish farms and/or sustainably-caught ocean fish. All of the above fertilizers can be made into super-potent, living, liquid nutrient "tea" by mixing them into chlorine-free water with molasses and aerating the solution for several hours.
And it's not gross or unclean to use guano and manure to grow food and medicine, When poop is broken down by worms and microbes, it becomes humus, a.k.a. soil! Finished compost is odor-free, safe to handle with your bare hands, and completely healthy to use for growing food and medicine for human consumption. Similarly, hydrolyzed fish is fresh fish scraps that have been blended and then digested by bacteria and enzymes, resulting in an incredibly nutritious and surprisingly pleasant-smelling water-soluble fish soup that plants absolutely love!
So, once again, much respect to you, Kushman! I totally share your vision of evolving beyond basic organic gardening toward even more harmonious and sustainable methods. I just wanted to make sure you knew about peak phosphorus and gently encourage you not to throw the baby out with the bath water when it comes to animal sources of organic fertilizer.
Peace and One Love!