I took a week long seminar with her about 10 years ago. Every lecture was as mind blowing as this one. The highlight of the seminar, however, was using the microscopes we were required to have, and seeing those fascinating creatures she talks about. This video shows that today she is even sharper and more humorous than she was ten years ago. My suspicion is that she drinks compost tea.

This is the best thing about KZfaq. Access to information like this before KZfaq was quite a bit harder than it is now.

I am a science educator and I aspire to be as engaging as Dr. Ingram. I came here to learn how to improve my garden, and I'm leaving inspired to be a better teacher to my students

I just became the custodian of a large forested lot that was last logged in about 1949. This will help me do right by it, learning from the ground up.

This is what a good teacher looks like holy smokes; incredibly articulate

She makes soil sound like a rock concert. So cool!

When you think you're versed in a subject, like gardening - at it for 56 years - and along comes Elaine Ingham informing you that you must live a whole nother life to catch up. Years ago she taught me to feed my 'soil pets' instead of feeding my plants.

Reading information on Dr. Ingham's ideas, or hearing them distilled by other commentators, you forget what a clear and compelling speaker she is. How great would it be to attend her classes!

i'm just getting into gardening and composting. really interesting to think of it as "tending to life". seeing my compost pile steam for the first time, seeing bugs and flies, and even little mammalian critters scurrying around it has been encouraging :)

I did the back to Eden gardening thing. Got rid of all my back yard grass by covering it with black weed blocker fabric for about a month. Then removed the fabric. Dumped 2 truckloads of wood chips, which covered my entire backyard about 3 feet high. Topped it with horse manure from a ranch. Pick up leaves from my neighborhood park during 3 consecutive autumns and dumped them over the wood chips and manure. Got chickens and let them roam free in the yard. At the same time I kept burying kitchen scraps for 3 years. At the end of 3 years, I have the most amazing soil that sprouts out any seed you drop in it. I'm still open to suggestions to improve it if possible. Thank you. I hope this helps somebody.

I bought and read their book, "Teaming with Microbes". Thank you for posting Dr. Elaine's talk. Blessings Abound

I’ve been composting for 20 years. I have no idea what bacteria or fungi we’re growing, but it turns our adobe soil into something that grows plants! 👍❤️👍

She's great at putting things in perspective. It's really very basic, and about understanding the fundamentals. So many people over complicate things, that it becomes confusing for new farmers.

This woman is a Saint!

This is a true masterclass with a world-class professor.

Bless this human for saving the world with knowledge.

This is such essential information… I’m applying it since 2 years in my little garden seeing beautiful results and can only imagine what would happen if the whole world of agriculture would get these fundamental insights and build systems of food production upon that understanding … one giant step toward paradise, abundance, freedom. Nurturing life’s capacity to take care of itself. Understanding life deeper and deeper and not interfering where it knows how to manage itself!! This topic is just tremendously important to understand and share the knowledge. I’m deeply grateful to this amazing woman who is paving the way for a new and better world with better food for people and healthy ecosystems for all life including humans ❤️ I pray this knowledge will become embedded in our agricultural systems 🙏🏻 thank you Elaine Ingram and all those seeking to live sustainably ❤️

I absolutley LOVE Dr Elaine Ingham...so refreshing to hear her! Dirts worst enemy and soils best friend!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are such a good teacher.

SUCH an interesting lecture. I’m so blessed to have access to such information. I’m working on rebuilding my soil for my vegetable garden. It’s total dead soil so it’ll take some time.

Thank you very much Dr. Elaine Ingham for sharing your knowledge with us on this media. Greetings from a cacao grower from Queensland. Thanks again

Thanks for the video. Excelent work. This is just an FYI, my friend Crafton is a kindred spirit of yours. He was asked if we had to evacuate Earth, and go live on Mars, never to return. And you were only allowed to bring one item that would fit in a box 12 inches square, what would you bring? He answered without a second thought, "A box of the richest, microbe infested, gorgeous topsoil from my garden." Everyone one else shut up, because there just wasn't a better answer than that.

I need to learn more from this woman, she explains it in a way I am able to understand!!! Wow shes amazing.

wow this is really helpful to learn. I've actually been doing this not knowing what I was doing. So its helpful to know what I am doing now. The soil here has improved so much in the past few years. As I have let nature restore its systems with me there to help get it what it needs and help the processes along.

Wow! Thanks for the in-depth content. Great to hear from someone so knowledgeable.

She explains this so succinctly. Halfway through and I really want to buy this woman a beer.

Really like this lady's style and agree 100% with her conclusions.

Who needs universities, I just need this woman in my life!

You speak the language of science so even a truck driver can understand!

I think what people really need to take from this is that this compost is the most important tool in your growing tool shed

Massive upload Diego, thanks for doing it, will watch them this weekend

Wow. Thanks, Dr. Elaine! I don't like biology but I understood how to bring life to my (backyard) soil; thanks to your very easy explanation. This would really help me build a sustainable backyard vegetable. I rarely watch 30+ mins videos but this seems like it just passed by! Thanks again for the knowledge. NOW I AM INFECTED! Haha!

I wish Dr Ingram had been my Life Science teacher back in the 70s! 😘

A Great Lecture to tell the importance of Microorganisms balance in our soil in order to improve our farming. Love from Agronomist. Very Helpful ❤

Going to need to watch each of these twice to make sure my notes are accurate 😊 thank you for making this available to us

Honestly, the david Attenborough impression? 😍 I'm here to learn seriously about soil, but what a treat that was.

Thank you Dr. Ingham! That was fantastic and very much more entertaining than I thought from the opening picture. I have tried for years to wrap my head around the correlation between things like nutrient density, PH, beneficial biomass, & organism relationships. There's a lot of reading out there from some people that (just like in all industries) shouldn't be talking! But listening to this lecture put so much into prospective and gave me a clearer picture. I almost had a stroke trying to absorb it all! But it was worth it. Now I gotta go get me a microscope!

I couldn't wait to return to my property to see it in a different way. I have left it for more than 30 years without any additions and the soil is spongy and healthy.

Balance! The formula and key to all life

What an excellent teacher.

I could listen to her all day, I relisten occasionally to reinforce

She's a brilliant lecturer. There's a lot wrong with KZfaq, this makes up it. I've been gardening this way for 35 years, and it's nice to see it vindicated. Just got to convince the people who don't accept this. Oh well!

Miss Ingham, thank you for the advanced science lesson. The man in my profile picture is my grandfather, he had a major in biology and a minor in botany, he worked for California fish and game and taught me a lot about scientific reasoning.

This is genius. I have been looking for this information for thirty years.

That’s what I like. Someone who speaks the facts. If I got it she indicates that the $ spent on growing needs focus at all the fungi n bacteria level n not the ways usually done -chemicals !! Sounded like the plant s will self suffice short of a lil periodical boost.

Been watching for about 5 minutes…. GREAT info. Taking notes!

We have been totally infected by her knowledge. Always captivating hearing from the great leaders of soil science.

This was a gift to me, thank you. I will share it with the world

Every next day they're saying we were wrong yesterday, but now we smart.

That is a truly excellent speaker. I learned a lot and was highly entertained at the same time. Glad I found this video series.

Within the first sentence of this lady talking I knew it would be good!

What a great teacher

Sorry I’m late. A huge thank you for your fantastic analysis. And, in a way that, even though i thought I knew what I was doing, i still learned a lot! I appreciate your great work. Thank you!

Wow wow wow. This woman is a blessing!

Extraordinary balance, being understandable to laymen (like me)& an Intellectual heavyweight.(unlike me) Bravo such a fine speaker

Dr. Elaine Ingham for President!

Nice. I love how you ground the organic nostrum, "feed the soil, not the plant," with solid science. A real look into why it works.

Excellent lecture Dr. Elaine Ingham

Yassss!!!! Finally, someone says it! This is what we need! Blass you for posting this!

It's interesting to learn how to maintain the soil good to plant on and preserve the bacteria...Thanks .

Cette personne ne manque pas d'esprit. Elle rend la pédologie amusante sans compromis sur l'exigence de rigueur scientifique. This person is smart . She makes sciences fun without compromise on knowlegde.

Excellent lecture. Thanks, Diego!

I would be interested to hear a conversation with Dr. Elaine Ingham and a well experienced practitioner of KNF!

Dr. Elaine. you are great teacher. thanks!

Dr Elaine thank you for your teachings....this is bipartisan and very informative and inspired me to create my own garden....it is going well...especially my medical cannabis

Wow, she's amazing, I loved listening to her!

So far all I got was add compost to help bring back life balance to my soil. Check working on that.

What a passionate teacher!

Wow fantastic, and aligns with what I've noticed in my garden. Need to find more from her.

Seems like a fun class to take, I enjoyed the teaching style.🎉

I happened upon this by chance. It's fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

A verry informative video. She is awesome at making a topic really interresting

Great understanding of the subject, 🙏🙏🙏 Clarity of thought Great Teacher

I started out growing marijuana. Not the best thing to grow but it has started me down a gardening rabbit hole that has transpired to what I do now. I love gardening. I grow all kinds of stuff now. It’s super easy. Everything in my garden is edible. I don’t use wire or plastic or chemicals. My raised bed is fire wood piled up and buried with me “super soil”. All the leaves and stems are used in the next round. Soon I’ll be posting on my channel how we grow everything with mother nature. I don’t use pots or containers of any sort. I use corn stalks dried up to support tomatoes and so on. Sometimes I’ll buy amendments like dead animals or rotten fruits from road side stands. It’s amazing.

Just enjoyed listening. What a great teacher♡

Ty

Wow! This is eye opening. Thank you for the upload.

I think this channel could save the world

Wow! Thanks for posting this! just awesome- so helpful!

THANK YOU! You already know, it was exactly what I needed to hear. Not only informative but entertaining, too! I 💗your style😎 I will spread this faster than pertussis!👩‍🌾

Such and interesting speaker and beyond brilliant!

Fantastic lecture... thanks everybody.

YES! Kiss the ground, thank you very in the moment of my gardening observations and the soil health.

So glad i stumbled upon this! 🤯🤯

Her ethos is that there is everything you need in the rocks that essentially make up all of our soils. This is because soils are made up of sand, silt and clay, which are all just different size rock particles. We add in organic matter and a biodiversity of life by making aerobic hot compost. This is done by building the right sized pile with the right mix of shredded materials, the correct carbon to nitrogen ratio and the correct moisture levels. We then use a thermometer to monitor the pile morning and night, turning at the nessasary temperature until the temperature starts to settle down after several weeks. If you haven't got enough material to cover everything then she suggests you make compost teas in order to cover a larger area. She also suggests spraying your foliage with the tea on the corse setting. She also focuses primarily on relieving subsoil compaction, in an ideal world you would identify if thats an issue using a soil penetrometer. You relieve that compaction via "double digging" or on a large scale it would be subsoiled by deep ripping to the right depth. She also advises to add compost into to that compaction zone after breaking up that subsoil, is possible. Obviously with the intension to transition over to a minimal tillage, when incorporating cover crops etc. It's worth mentioning about the extensive use of diverse cover crops and to always have something growing in the soil. There are many reasons for this, the symbiotic relationships, relieving compaction, capturing nutrients, soil erosion, to name but a few. There is more to it of course, like specific plants or trees preferring fungal dominant composts or bacterial dominant composts and of course what "weeds" prefer. This mainly all comes via different compost pile recipes and of course using a microscope so you know what's lacking and what your adding.

This is simply brilliant!

Dr. Ingham, "That's one of the deals here. Now that you've listened to me, you've been infected." NO, NO, NO, we've been inoculated!!!! Love this content :)

This should be taught in schools, but not by the teachers that are already there…

It is our duty as humans to act like Stewards and maintain the harmony Earth has generated. We CAN create Oaseas in the Desert where we can get our NonFictional tans on.

This is great. They say, you can’t feed the world with using only organic inputs. Therefore, we need to use synthetic fertilizers. Also it’s important to prevent pests and diseases, therefore we need to be applying pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides. The solution is to modify the DNA of the crops we grow the most of, that way we can use round up and our favorite crops will not be bothered with the round up application. How convenient for monocropping, and how nice to be the companies that profit from the sales of these products. Now we find ourselves heavily dependent on inorganic methods of growing food. Uh oh. Good lecture. Everyone’s engaged and enjoying the topic. Coffee’s gone, back to work!

If only everyone had a wholistic approach... Great Content!

I love smart people

This woman is incredible!! How inspiring

She’s funny. I like her. Very informative thank you.

What an amazing speaker!

If I was eating a the dinner table and water started washing me away, the last thing I would be thinking about is staying at the table with my food. 😅

Wow! She is wonderful!

Elaine... you mentioned an affordable microscope with a camera; can you pls send more info and source for microscope? thank you

I am happy I stumbled upon this

Very very interesting. Thank you.