It´s such a privilege to wacht Dr. Elaine!!! Love from Brazil!!!! 😍🥰
@FaithNFarmstead2 ай бұрын
I’m new here. Watched a four part lecture someone else on KZfaq, and discovered your ideas. I AM OBSESSED.
@markread86504 ай бұрын
Thanks for all the info and insights for making this a better world
@garybrohard31444 ай бұрын
You talked about adding organic matter. One thing my community does that is great, they suck up leaves in the fall if we put them on the curb. They then put them in mounds to compost. They even turn the piles a few times. They give it away for free. It gold. I have filled raise beds with it. The worms and plants love it. I would suggest that every community follow suit.
@EzEzEz3694 ай бұрын
That's awesome. Are you able to plant in pure compost, or do you use mix it with local soil?
@DaveE99Ай бұрын
In one of their videos about fungi, they litterally said “half my job seems to be getting people to stop throwing away the plant droppings that fall to the ground as mulch is important and also a way fungi in the leaves propagate in the soil
@garybrohard3144Ай бұрын
@@EzEzEz369 I plant directly into it. The plants grow great. I top the beds off each year. I use the fresh piles of chopped leaves for mulch ir to add to my compost pile. The areas that I out it directly on the ground, I get better penetration with my penetrometer after it has been on the ground for a year or more.
@garybrohard31444 ай бұрын
The experimentation for me is the fun part. What areas are best for a plant. What plant are best for the area. What plants work good together and which ones don’t. My addition this year is what plants do dear eat or not eat. One side of creek is deer free, the other not do much. How much can a cram into one raised bed, small yard, etc. It can be frustrating but very rewarding when I sample the products.
@DaveE99Ай бұрын
If you’re in the desert, and you have trouble getting samples of diverse compost and natural materials. You could almost make a small buisness for maintaining a compost pile that is healthy and diverse and give a certain percent away to other regen people that are interested. I’ve mentioned before we prob just need to make model systems in various counties for people to not be taking too much from the forest
@DaveE99Ай бұрын
The thing about organic matter being eaten, is those bacteria go to the bathroom and die eventually to and those things are also part of the soil.
@garybrohard31444 ай бұрын
About clay. I live in Alabama. We have what is called Alabama red clay. Nasty by its self. Since I have been adding leave compost, mulch mowing, and compost teas and leaf mulch, my worms have exploded and done the tillage of the soil. After a few short years my soil has gone from red to dark brown and every scoop has worms. Even my compost piles are full of worms. Sadly I do not have a good microscope yet to see what I have produced, but the plant life is enjoying it.
@soilfoodwebschool4 ай бұрын
@garybrohard3144 Great to hear this!
@ankurbishnoi2544 ай бұрын
Sir I also have hard clay soil how to improve it
@alokmaurya79633 ай бұрын
Mam why CEC is the second most properties of soil ? Please make a video
@busker1534 ай бұрын
That is what I was thinking. Apply the extract through your irrigation the way she described, the only variable being how many microbes you have in any particular batch of extract. Then, compare the before and after soil samples to see what was accomplished. Then, go from there. If you need more, redo it. I think Adam hit the nail on the head by describing it as more of an art guided by science. Not a mathematical recipe so much as we have been led to believe. Modern agriculture is based on the Godless religion of naturalism. Farming is nothing like baking, where the ingredients must be precise or you have just made 'Ug, it's a failure!' for desert. Farming is like cooking. And, oh, it is nothing like tuning a ukulele. It is like tuning a precision jazz bass guitar! LOL (Couldn't resist. Musicians will understand.) Of course, this coming from someone growing a food forest in the desert without watering. LOL
@pokpalee4 ай бұрын
Hi, I came across what Dr. Ingham said most insect and pest do not like serenade. May I ask if serenade is Bacillus Subtilis, how does it work, why do pest and insect do not like. What keep insect away from the plantation. I have been googling I can only find out that it help to protect against disease but not much in protecting against bad insect Thank you very much
@wildmanofthenorth15984 ай бұрын
I have a raised bed I just add to the garden, it is full of agrocybe spring field cap fungi. Are those mushrooms good for soil?😊
@williemasterofdestruction53394 ай бұрын
Short answer- yes. Look into Jeff lowenfalls book[s] Teaming with fungi. Or listen to his many talks on KZfaq. Among other people. Fungi are a huge part of the soil food web. Fungal pathways etc
@soilfoodwebschool4 ай бұрын
@wildmanofthenorth1598 Please feel free to reach to us with your questions to info@soilfoodweb.com
@DF-ll8vo3 ай бұрын
How do you activate charcoal
@DaveE99Ай бұрын
You basically can do a few different things, biological activation or a sort of just soaking in nutrients like it can be soaked in urine and wood ash. Though to biologically activate it it’s very similar to how you make aerobic compost tea. You need a bubbler or air pump or something and some sort of bucket. You will need to look up what else to add to compost tea as you need an innoculat source and also a food source of some sugar and maybe some carbon or something. Look up what to add to compost tea. But the only difference is adding the biochar to me. Ideal if you can crush it up a bit.
@EzEzEz3694 ай бұрын
Greetings! Where do you source these Big 4 organisms, and how do you culture them?
@soilfoodwebschool4 ай бұрын
@EzEzEz369
@craigharby50504 ай бұрын
Compost!
@EzEzEz3694 ай бұрын
@soilfoodwebschool ? It sounds like your able to adjust them individually like faders on an equalizer. How is this done ? I live in south Carolina where it's all sand. It sounds like tons of organic material is the way as with clay like yall mentioned here. This was very informative, thank you 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉📿📿📿
@Blackhawk1821824 ай бұрын
How can i intergrate this into aquaponics? We know aquaponics cant sustain plant other than greens without addatives... im perplexed by this, on the one hand i want to use soil, but on the other hand , how do i save 80% on water in soil... i know healthy soil keep more water, but is it that good compared to aquaponics? Also, what if we used the aquaponic water and just irragate that onto the soil, will this cause problems with the eco system?
@soilfoodwebschool4 ай бұрын
@Blackhawk182182 great questions. feel free to send your questions to info@soilfoodweb.com for our science team to consider.
@Blackhawk1821824 ай бұрын
@@soilfoodwebschool will do, thanks
@DaveE99Ай бұрын
What did they say?
@drroymathewmathew36314 ай бұрын
Study TCBT
@williemasterofdestruction53394 ай бұрын
Would love to be a fly in the wall evesdropping on a conversation between Elaine and Jeff lowenfalls. Discussing his new book (and older ones too) teaming with 🦠 bacteria 🧫 ✌️💚🍉
@soilfoodwebschool4 ай бұрын
Great idea... we've been needing to get Jeff on a webinar for a while!