About Vital Earth Minerals
A family-founded, woman-owned mineral supplement company rooted in Grand Junction, Colorado — and in a founding story that began with one woman’s determination to reclaim her health.
Who We Are
Vital Earth Minerals is a family-founded, woman-owned supplement company based in Grand Junction, Colorado. Since 2000, we have crafted liquid fulvic and humic mineral supplements using the same gentle, unhurried process, the same freshwater Southwest United States humate source, and the same small-batch production standards we started with.
We are not a large corporation. We are a company built by hand, guided by principle, and sustained by the loyalty of customers who have trusted us for over two decades. Our facility sits at the foot of the Colorado National Monument, bordered by high desert and the Rocky Mountains — a setting that reflects the values built into every bottle we make.
The Founding Story: Why Vital Earth Minerals Exists
Jody Ahrens and the Discovery That Started Everything
Vital Earth Minerals was born out of necessity — specifically, out of one woman’s refusal to accept that how she felt was simply how things had to be.
In 2000, Jody Ahrens was facing debilitating health challenges that conventional approaches were not resolving. Determined to find a natural path forward, she began researching the root causes of poor nutrition and vitality in modern life.
What she discovered changed the course of her life — and eventually, the lives of the customers who would come to trust the company she built.
Jody learned that modern agricultural practices had severely depleted the trace minerals from our food supply. The fulvic and humic acids that once entered our diets naturally through food grown in biologically rich soil were largely gone. And those compounds — produced over millions of years as ancient plant matter concentrated deep in the earth — played a fundamental role in how the body absorbs nutrients, supports energy, and maintains cellular health.*
She found a source of pristine, plant-derived fulvic and humic minerals drawn from a freshwater humate deposit in the Southwest United States, more than 25 feet below the earth’s surface — protected from modern contamination by both depth and geology. And she committed to making them the right way: a gentle, unhurried process that protected the minerals — no added heat, no shortcuts — so they reached people clean and naturally alkaline, the way nature made them.
Together with her daughter Rhonda Ahrens, Jody brought Vital Earth Minerals to life in 2000 — with a simple mission: to make the minerals that belong in our food, but no longer are, available to people who need them.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Rhonda Ahrens: Carrying the Vision Forward
Rhonda Ahrens co-founded Vital Earth Minerals alongside her mother Jody in 2000 and has been at the heart of the company ever since. As Jody has stepped back into retirement, Rhonda leads the company today as sole owner — carrying forward the founding vision with the same commitment to quality, sourcing integrity, and customer trust that defined Vital Earth Minerals from its first day.
Under Rhonda’s leadership, the company has grown its product line, expanded its facilities, and deepened its relationships with a loyal community of customers while never compromising on the principles that make Vital Earth Minerals different. The gentle, unhurried process has not changed. The source has not changed. The commitment to small-batch production has not changed.
What has changed is the reach — more people, more products, and a growing body of peer-reviewed research that continues to validate what Jody discovered in 2000.
As a woman-owned small business (WOSB), Vital Earth Minerals reflects the values of its leadership: a belief that honesty, transparency, and doing things the right way — even when it is harder and more expensive — are not optional.
Where We Are: Grand Junction, Colorado
Nestled at the foot of the Colorado National Monument, bordered by high desert and the Rocky Mountains, Grand Junction is not a typical location for a supplement company. But it is exactly the right one for us.
Our facility is in Grand Junction. Our minerals are sourced from the Southwest United States. Our products are bottled here, by hand, in small batches. Everything that goes into a bottle of Vital Earth Minerals passes through the hands of people who live in this community and take personal responsibility for what they make.
Our Certifications and Quality Commitments
We believe transparency is the foundation of trust. Here is what we can tell you about how we operate:
cGMP Certified Facility Vital Earth Minerals operates in a cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) certified facility, meeting the FDA’s manufacturing standards for dietary supplements.
Third-Party Laboratory Testing Every batch of Vital Earth Minerals products is tested by an independent, accredited third-party laboratory for heavy metals, microbial purity, and trace mineral composition. Third-party testing is the standard we hold ourselves to, not a marketing claim.
Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Vital Earth Minerals is certified as a Woman-Owned Small Business — not as a marketing point, but as an accurate description of who we are.
Non-GMO All Vital Earth Minerals products and ingredients are Non-GMO, and free from artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, MSG, gluten, wheat, dairy, soy, and yeast.
Our Products: What We Make and Why
Vital Earth Minerals produces a focused line of liquid fulvic and humic mineral supplements, each built around the same plant-derived ionic mineral foundation.
Our Process — How We Make Vital Earth Minerals
Over 25 Years of Customer Trust
Since 2000, hundreds of thousands of customers have made Vital Earth Minerals part of their daily health routine. This kind of loyalty is not something you buy with advertising. It is something you earn — by doing what you say, making what you promise, and standing behind your product with honesty and consistency for over 25 years.
Contact Us and Connect
We are a real company, with real people, in a real place. Address: Grand Junction, Colorado Email: info@vitalearthminerals.com Phone: 970-241-6628 | Toll-free: 866-291-4400 Customer Service Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm MT
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
vitalearthminerals.com | Grand Junction, Colorado | Woman-Owned Small Business | Founded 2000