Hi Karl and everyone, I will have to look for the lava earth. I looked it up on the Internet and didn't come up with anything. Is there a product name to look for? I'm going to try and make it to the Viktoras Kulvinskas talk in San Francisco that Tom Billings mentioned. I just looked at my Survival into the 21st Century book and it was written in 1975! It's raining a lot, so I hope we all make it there! Mary J.