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I'm a new age farmer from India. A country where the son of a farmer no longer wants to take up the old man's occupation. The people that actually farm here, use tremendous amounts of chemicals to grow things. Thank you so much for educating people for free. It surely is going to help me grow healthy and sustainable food. 🙏🏼 Feed the soil, not the plant!!

I am a forklift operator.. I have been using the internet as the tool that it is and I have applied myself to things that i am interested in and completely stopped the mindless scrolling and have used my time wisely. I do not have the money to take the course yet but I am going to buy a microscope and I am going to study and use this amazing tool to help me along the way. Thank you Elaine for this information given so freely to the hungry minds. I look forward to taking this course and launching my own worm farm in North Carolina!

From Portugal can not thank you enough. I am a Family doctor trying to pass the knowledge that we and the universe are one. Key Imune system. Our microbiome depends on marvelous fruits and vegetables and all that comes directly alive from Mother Nature. Now I can begin to go a little further. Going to see and listen all I can from you and team. Once again Thank you so much

Hi! I’m in Foley, Alabama. Been here now for almost two years, after moving from Ventura, California. My 30 year old garden there was in containers .Trying my hand at gardening in the South. Started with vegetable seeds and marigolds and the flowers were stupendous but everything attacked my organic garden.So, I switched to raising Monarch Butterflies and milkweed which was a huge success. Today , at the end of January 25, I’m just growing soil in a beautiful raised bed. Layering up great soil…adding small amounts of kitchen scraps in little mounded piles covered with more soil and dried leaves. Waiting for the soil to cure and plan to add more soil, then plant with lots of flowers and vegetables….This time I’m hoping the soil will be successful for all, including worms. My huge yard was poisoned on a schedule before I moved here. I planted lots of mini clover and started to nourished the yard, adding more organic soil. No poison in my yard. Life is welcome….Love my bees and butterflies.

Growing what I can and giving away the excess is what I've tried to do for many years. It's a hobby with a win-win outcome, in my old eyes.

No.Calif. 18 yrs homesteader with full-time job, now full-time small rancher. (About. Another 20 yrs.) Garden, about 20 assorted fruit trees, About 15 acres of dryland pasture. Have raised most of my food And a small income Have always been interested in sustainability ,fertility and doing whatever can be done to help things out.

I’m in central New Mexico. The previous owner of my 1.25 acre lot scraped the surface off every year for 10 years and called it weed control. My “garden plot” was an adobe floored horse corral, compacted as the dickens. It’s only saving grace was that he never cleaned out the corral so all that dung was stomped into the adobe when it rained. I decided to leave it in place. Since then, I’ve laid out a 40’x50’ garden and begun laying down layers of aged manure, wood chips, massive amounts of leaves and straw. I’m building raised beds on top of the base layers and using the rest of the area as walkways. My plan is to surround the entire garden with perennial plants that are edible. It’s all in full, desert sun so all that vegetable material is holding water in the soil as I try to bring the soil back to life. I’m hoping to bring it back so it can begin to spread out from my garden area.

Have found the use of pine needles as a mulch around my strawberries plants has greatly increased their yields, down here amongst the gum trees in Central Victoria, Australia. Included a layer of leaf mold this season and now seeing a mass of white flowers for the insects to pollinate.

Hi from Germany and as a phytopathologist I learned something today.

Southern California, 45 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border, Slab City. My goal is to plant desert loving perrineals. Grow food for egg laying poultry and milk goats, and provide a variety of nutritional food. It's been said that Imperial County California is the most impoverished County in the United States. Slab City must be the most impoverished "city" in the United States. The Moringa tree will be the most prominent in what I plan to be a food oasis.

I keep skipping these videos but I ran out of native plant webinars to watch so I rounded back to microbiology and it’s actually a lot more fascinating that I initially thought it would be.

I'm glad I found this channel, I do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides or any type of poison to kill weeds, I want to learn about soil, I have a 40 acre homestead, I'm trying to grow a natural echo system to produce food for human consumption and my livestock. I'm in the high desert at 4,500 feet above sea level. My place is unique in some ways, for one I have an enormous amount of water, a year around creek the comes off a reservoir, there are multiple natural springs that feed this reservoir, we allow 1,100 gallons of water per minute to come out of the reservoir all year and the reservoir never drops. It is always full, 1,100 gallons per minute is almost 2 million gallons of water per day. The water is distributed to my homestead and the ranch next to me. We get all the water. I have clay soil, it is my understanding that clay soil has a lot of minerals, we do have springs coming of this mountain with warm water, it produces steam in the winter, my creek is cold water, I also have a shallow water table or a huge underground spring, I can dig anywhere on my property and hit water at 2 feet in the winter, 4 feet in the summer. I know we are facing massive food shortages in the coming months, I knew this was coming so I started preparing 12 years ago, I bought this property, it had not been touched in fifty years. So all soil and plant materials are organic. I raise dairy and meat goats, sheep, pigs, chickens and horses, goats are great, they are foragers so they don't over graze the land like cattle, sheep's are grazers but my goats taught my sheep to be foragers, they eat and move, constantly moving, horses graze but plenty of land for them to graze, that's another unique thing about my property, I have thousands of acres that border my property that is open range. I need a volunteer mentor, I know a lot but want to be the best.

For rodent control it's best to work towards a system where you're providing habit for native non-venomous snakes and barn owl houses. Doing this will keep the rodent population in check.

Pennsylvania 💚! Saving now for your courses. I hope nurses make good soil food web nerds.

The comment about the bad press that bacteria have received is truely pervasive in the American lexicon. I would say that is due to a large amount of misinformation that is drilled into our culture and then transferred into the way we express knowledge about microbes in the english language. The common exposure that most people have with the simplest forms of life is through the possibility of danger. This triggers fear that, in turn, triggers your fight or flight response, and for most Americans, flight is much easier than their want or need for the availability to positive information concerning bacteria, fungi, and the importance of large mycelial biomasses. WE MUST CHANGE OUR USE OF THE LANGUAGE concerning microflora through education. I believe this does take the re-education of how we collectively view our microscopic biomasses. Controlling bacterial community is taught in some cultures usually in communities who have a stronger tie than most have to agricultural. It is not being taught on a grassroots level. This knowledge that use to be passed down generationally but now people buy chemicals that mimic the nutrients that plants need but those chemicals will not grow the microfauna that is necessary to create living soil. TEACH PEOPLE WHOM YOU CAN INFLUENCE how to influence the Microfauna around themselves.

I have a perfect ground cover system at the end of my garden under a canopy of 13 oak trees, in the falls (Autumn) all the leaves fall off the oak tree and all the fungi begins to grow. I do harvest 3 different edible fungi in my garden, there are a whole rotation of plant that come up under those oak tree through the year many of them are ground cover all low growing. It was planted by a plants man who had the garden before me The whole system is older than 80 years.

Anytime I hear/see a question about how to improve (enter soil type here) the answer I always give is organic matter through a good, living compost.

Minute 52:26 describes exactly how to improve arid poor soil, how to get started in an easy way to add organic matter.

Such knowledge and work is noble prize worthy and more....you guys are defenders of earth, my salute.

Yes! Go Elaine! Keep making videos I loved this!

Ireland, absolutely love these talks! thank you so much 😁🌱💚🙏✨

Texas here. We need to this discussion badly.

I subscribed because this channel has so much that the viewers need to learn about growing healthy plants or foods for human being and of course of the nature. if we do all of these or even the very basic composting then we can cure our sick or unhealthy soil that produces unhealthy foods to human.

For tropical soils make terra preida. Lots of charcoal , baked clay and fish parts .miles of it exists still

Hi, Arable farmer in the UK. Have you done any work on pelleting compost and sowing it along with the seed? Most modern no till drills can sow fertliser etc along with the seed so this would be a handy way to help the soil, whilst using conventional techniques and equipment? Great work guys thank you very much. All growers and farmers should know about this stuff

I love these folks, so deeply rooted in the scientific community, so fascinated by the structures created for them to study, manipulate, and rave over how fantastically fascinating the entire system is, but incapable of thanking the creator for any of it. Science owes it's very existence to God and at the same time frowns on the very mention. God loves us all. Even those that refer to him as "Nature".

So much knowledge in one place, thank you for sharing your truths 🙏💫

Greatest compilation of knowledge. May these outlast our generations. Kudos!

The Zia pits filled with compost to form a nucleus of bio activity reminds me of something Joel Salatin said. When looking at a depleted farm to rent, the owner offered to bring in a tractor or dozer to pull out the multi-flora rose bushes. Joel declined because under them was the only vibrant soil on the place.

I live on a 15 acre horse farm in central Florida and have always been interested in making my pastures stronger and greener. Also have a private vegetable garden. So many farms around me. Would love to share this info with them.

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge!!! 🌿💚🌎💚🌿

Thank you. What richness in details. Elizabeth from Brazil

I'm looking at a parcel of land that was purchased by a sand and gravel company that proceeded to strip 4" of topsoil off of the land for use as landscaping topsoil and gravel pit reclamation. The real estate agent claimed that there are still 6-7" left on the parcel. I have a hard time believing that there was 10" to begin with. Needless to say, most of the organic matter is gone. If I buy this property I am looking at some intensive soil regeneration to bring it back to life. Sadly the owner thinks he's sitting on a gold mine.

Thank you for this wonderful webinar & information from Stephen in CapeTown!

I would LOVE the guys in the Antarctic to participate in your webinars. They may learn something. ;)

I Live In Corcoran CA, As you can imagine the soil here is very bad, at the end of winter/ beginning of spring of 2022, I started my first ever veg garden. I live in a rental and the yard here was nothing more than compacted dirt with weeds. The first step I took in order to enrich the soil was to start a worm composting bin, Secondly, I was fortunate that there was a covered 55-gallon heavy-duty Plastic drum on the property that I filled with weeds and water. I also started my first compost pile. My intention was to have a container garden so I bought one five-pack of 15-gallon material pots and one five-pack of 25-gallon material pots. I didn't have a clue, I had no idea of what I was doing and I was running out of money, so I had no money for what was needed to fill these pots and containers for my garden, so real fast it went from just a container garden to a container and in-ground/plot garden. I now come to the point, This year, my second, I have seen at least five times, two different types of mushrooms/fungi throughout the garden. I hope that's a good indicator that the dirt is being turned into good soil. I'm also making and applying microbial solutions. I make the solutions, one with potatoes, one with rice, and when I make Greek yogurt in my instant pot, so three different types. I also make biochar myself. I don't have money for cover crops so I've been collecting cardboard boxes and covering the ground with those, I try to make sure everything stays moist. I'm worried about the over-wintering vegetables I planted, I think I planted too soon even though I waited a week or two, It's still in the upper eighties and nineties here and they are getting big, I'll just have to figure something out. Thanks for letting me vent.😃

I live in Houston Texas. I started to collect leaves around the neighborhood and pile it at my backyard. After a few month, the leaves break down and many earthworms.

hi. love this information thank you. i have a question, im 28 and live in a dry part of spain i am just getting into permaculture ive started digging swales to slow the water on my land witch is mostly clay. is digging bad? i see mycelium in the undisturbed ground

Hi, I'm India. I'm interested to know about these soil microbes

Wow, being a steward, or a leader, in what is to be put in the ground, is great to know. But as being humans, we need the creator's help to help us learn how to maintain the earth, as a people, as a whole. We are on our way, slowly.

Great to hear that you are promoting IMO since I get tempted to add products to inoculate since it sounds like the products would be better than what I have in my system.

Rhode Island here. SE New England is fairly decent for agriculture. I’ve discovered no till and bio char. I’m finding the micro biology fascinating. Thank you!!

#SaveSoil lets make it happen!

All the people in the antarctic are climate researchers, biologists, and archaeologists. I'm pretty sure some of them would be interested in this information.

A lot of knowledge information!!!! Thanks for teaching us how to safe the planet!!!!❤

I did experience using horse manure that contains straw that had been sprayed with glyphosates long time ago never bought horse manure after that, it is why I started keeping chicken at least I know what I feed my chicken and what bedding I use for them when it ends up in the compost pile.

you have a great channel here man.i'm from Philippines and i think you have such interesting topic

Does gray water from washer with biodegradable soap affects microbes negatively?

East Bay California

Michigan, thanks for sharing!

Wales, diolch yn fawr iawn am seminars!

FANTASTIC, Thank you love you :)

We are so thankful for this 🙏. Thank you so much. In Suisun and a student that has fallen in love with soil chemistry.

That concentrated compost in one small section before moving on to the rest, is called starting change by identifying a bright spot, or in this case creating and committing to one

Thank you so very much for sharing this information...

Thank you so much. I learned a lot from your webinar.

Ty

Didn’t make the live stream. I’m from sc zone 7. I live on a river. Lots of water, but sandy soil. This is my second year of growing . I did ok last year, but I wasted a lot of time decorating, it was beautiful.

Hi there coming from California

Great chemistry with the panel , hhmmm i mean biology 😉

There is the “ONE HEALTH” concept of how to consider efforts for improvment, I hope one day the science gets to a point where we can have a “one biome” sort of interconnected understanding of how these different areas all interact. Prob going to need some ai and faster computers but it be great to get to that point😊

Thailand! Thanks for sharing

Love the videos the folks here are producing. I think we are missing some of the picture in forgetting the water and magnetic side of things. I became aware of the water and other living energies by becoming familiar with viktor schaubergers works.

Thanks for your good tips! Watching from Philippines.

Perú. Thanks for the webinar

From Zambia Am following , am a farmer and a composted...

I know this video is a year old, but I just found it, and am an avid backyard gardener, and very much interested in soil life. I’m in Northwest Florida, and we get a lot of rain in the spring and summer. Often we’ll get over 20 inches in a week, and occasionally that much in a day. I have raised beds and make a lot of compost but it seems my production has dropped off this last year. I’ll be interested in your information.

great educational contents thank you v much

Toronto. Canada

Johannesburg, South Africa

Hello from Nuxalbari Tea Estate, India

Sorry to be so late...just found you. I'm in France!

Thanks for sharing, happy to be learning so much fron Chilean Patagonia.

México! Gracias por la información!!

Good evening and I just wanted to say I love listening to the pod cast. I am a home grower. Indoors and in beds - a 2x4, and a 3x3. I was wondering what a good companion plant or plants would be for both veggies and cannabis. I've been interplanting ànd leaving most rooting fruits such as carrots and beets just die off in the soil for the worms to eat. I'm only going on my second season with the 2x4 and the first with the 3x3. I'd like to implement an army of beneficial insects. They always seem to die off or at least lower it n population. From eating one. Another I imagine. Which is a good thing, but that s when the thrips get in. And I have to buy again. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you again for a great Q-n-A

Legal, muito legal. Baraúna,-RN, Nordeste semiárido Brasil

Fungal composting is the way to go. Natural Farming has a saying that is more truth than saying...manage the Fungi and everything else falls into place. You should look at the Johnson Su Bioreactor. Peace.

Hello From Sacramento, California USA

Trying to restore soil to help rare Garry oak habitat, Hi from Victoria Canada

Cyprus knees and some root collars are known to be involved in moving oxygen down to the roots. Rice is so good at surviving low oxygen that paddies are flooded for weed control. Are some plants known to move oxygen to immediately outside their roots? It would be handy to have a plant selection that would help break up a low O2 plow pan or to recover from flooding. (My guess is that they could be found originally in wet areas. Celery?)

East Texas! I want to educate myself on regenerating the land from a depleted or desertified state to permaculture or agroforestry inspired agriculture.

Very informative and intresting, I love the shape of the protozoa I would call that an egg shape one of the best shapes allowing the present energies flow naturally through.. Can't wait to hear and see more.

Emil Reyes from the Philippines

Greetings from Atacama, Chile

Hi,Goik Taylor From England

Thank you so much for your Insight!!!

Hi, thanks for the video from BC Canada!

I'm a home gardener in a small town 45 minutes outside a large city.

Awesome stuff, brain melted.

Pennsylvania USA

Northeastern Colorado. I see a lot of videos about warmer States but, not very many in colder states.

watching from Oriental Negros, Philippines.

Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet

I would also like to know which biodegradable soap to use in my washer . I'm also thinking my dishwasher pods can't be any goid for the environment either .

Add your voice to the global movement to save soil from extinction #conciousplanet #savesoil

Alot of hay and straw, and manures from animals that eat hay, are contaminated with graz-on or other aminopyrilate type herbicides. Those herbicides are extra bad because they're persistent and last up to three years in the soil even after being eaten, digested, and composted. They'll kill any plant that isn't a grass. Some corn is also sprayed with that stuff.

What are the affects of fungicides in relation to soil fungi? One of the challenges we face in our orchards are treatment for fungal diseases. We apply with orchard fan sprayers so of course the soil is coated in the process. Are the soil fungus protected from these products?

2500 meters Colorado growing medical marijuana on my permasoil of composted alfalfa and wheat straw mulch and wood chips. Mushrooms flush all summer up tru the mulch . paonia soil is the best base and will refresh a old bed as a inculcation with all things good and local .all the mushrooms that volunteer shows how good panonia is , a perfect mix of bacteria and fungals ..

Hi I'm from St Lucia