We’ve been using em to ferment all our compost for the past three years. Sealed in barrels. We then mix it with 70% woodchips for three weeks. It takes about 4-6 weeks for the whole process. We then topdress our raised beds and apply IMO 4 and liquid IMO. BOOM !!!! I’ve never seen better results.

I'm working with EM for a decade now and it completely changed my life for the better ❤

We are with you 1000% Matt Powers! I am so happy and proud that you have met your goal already, but I say we keep it going! Everything Matt says in the above video is true, we really can change the world for the better and improve the health of ourselves and others, through the soil. The soil is the linchpin! It doesn't matter if we are gardeners with an 8th of an acre, or farmers with 200,000 acres, we can start regenerating the worlds soil today, by adding back the microbes, by testing the soil, and then logging the results on the Our Soil Database for others to see and learn from. Do yourselves, and the world a favor and sign up to be part of something amazing and world changing, today!

“Achromobacter digests glyphosate” That is great! Now to discover one (or several!) that digests Grazon… Thank you the marvelous education!

Wow, you're blowing my mind right now, I'm a pretty lazy Gardener 🤣 I've been listening to all these people talk about em 🤔for such a long time, I thought to myself why not yogurt and kimchi, sauerkraut, when those things expire ,I just put them in my garden, not the yogurt directly, but just the watery bits that come off the top before I throw it away, I usually add a lot of water to it, and I noticed a difference in certain areas where I had bought fertilizer, thank you so much matt, I love hearing everything you have to say, you're doing such a great job at getting all this information out, thank you so much for everything you do ❤️💃

There is such a need for citizen scientists. Sign me up. I do love EM, lately been getting more into the brix readings, foliar feeding to increase that. I know how to use the microscope but quantifying the microbes are a challenge to me. I need to find the formulas again. I took Elaine's FC in 2020, so I have a decent foundation. I love going deep into these rabbit holes, keeps life interesting and uncovering these truths are mind blowing. Its amazing how much the human microbiome correlates to soil microbiome. We are from the soil.

Relating to the human gut discussion around 11:00; A good tip I learned during some of my travels around, eat the local yogurt. It will absolutely help your stomach adjust to the local food.

Always knew you had a great grasp on many things … got past your wakkie blurts of laughter and stayed to hear and see your best video here!

I literally learned about EM earlier today and had no idea what it was and find your video 3 hours after you posted it. Crazy coincidence!

Outstanding info, Matt. IMHO we should be applying Acromobacter (spelling correct?) on every square inch of soil possible if it breaks down glyphosate.... glyphosate is in our rain water and snow fall now. Meaning it has contaminated our entire water cycle....and Acromobacter could be a holistic way to reverse that ?! That's huge.....and wonderful.

Hi my friend I started a journey into microbes over 12 months when I was told I never smoked real trichomes in my life I realised we are just upside down plants a vessel for microbes i watched a coulpe of Elaine's videos I felt connected to her somehow it wasn't untill I passed some clones of a invassive pine tree to a friend that I come home and the tree told me thank you for passing me on Elaine gave me to your father i felt crazy but done my research and investigations and realised she was actually here in Townsville at that time at JCU and did know my father it's crazy to me that a tree told that and it was right

I just came to find out how to make bokashi for composting. Over delivered much! Much love from Australia

Just ordered the book....

YA know Matt, you DO have something there about foods from other regions. I now know, that foods that are grown in one country and brought to the US doesn't sit well with my gut. Especially the oils. Yet, I can get exact same products from another country and they don't bother me at all!

Also acetobacter destroys glyphosate! At least Stephanie Seneff says that. Acetobacter is also in vinegar and kombucha. For a few years i lived in a place which was very heavily contaminated with glyphosate, including the well water (i found out about it only after having already lived there a couple of years and been very very sick). Soon after moving to that place I started to brew kombucha and drank it like a liter (a quarter) per day.. and i think it greatly contributed in my survival out of that situation 😲 i love beneficial bacteria 😏

Your laugh is contagious

Matt on a more serious note: how to apply microbes to vegetables from the supermarket as to remove bad chemicals before we eat them?

Again, Matt, Thank you for all you are doing!

I need to make some rice today. I’ll save the rice wash water and mix it with the whey from my latest batch of cheese I made to start a batch of EM1. Thank you for all this great work!

how do you make it then? you are saying you have gallons up on gallons of "it" always ready, what is it? how do you make it? do you have a recipe for your brew?

When adding spiralina is there a certain kind?

Great information! How do I make this EM myself and making sure that the LAB, PNSB and Yeast are added in the right ratios?

Listening to this while applying EM to my field corn 😅

You open my mind matt

Turning sugar in gas makes one gassy?

thank you so much for another enjoyable and educational video. I always appreciate your enthusiasm and joy. I am wondering if Pro em could be added to compost teas for innoculation?

I am completely lost in all that I learn about composting, EM and now in what I discovered through the techniques of JADAM (JMS, JLF). Dr. Elaine Ingham stresses the absolute necessity of making aerobic compost and also the importance of aerobics in the preparation of oxygenated compost tea. All this to obtain good microorganisms. However, with EM and fermented forest litter, we make anaerobic preparations (EM1, bokashi, etc.). JADAM JMS is a kind of anaerobic compost tea, JLF is a fermentation of a set of plants that are left to ferment for months in water anaerobically. Yet these anaerobic preparations also produce good microorganisms to inoculate the soil and feed the plants. I confess that I no longer understand anything.

Your spirit animal is the hyena :) thanks for sharing

Thank you from friends in #Pakistan I love all your preentation and this one is the Best

Do you think hemp could be considered another dark nutrient dense leafy green that has the purple non something bacteria living inside of it as an endophite?

Hi Matt, would you have any info or knowledge if EM has been effective in rice paddies (Asian region) which would require anaerobic microbes than aerobic (I am a newbie about the subject and I assume that rice crops are usually submerged in water most of the time and the soil has to be mud). I have also come across some info about "bokashi balls" (which will have EM), to supposedly clean bodies of water and hence, I am now thinking that EM will be effective as an alternative fertilizer (in place of expensive chemical fertilizers) for poor rice farmers.

Amazing content thanks so much

I have bought EM but I am still unclear if if something I can make or expand myself. Just gardening on my full suburban lot

Cant wait for "Mind, body, soul" book :)

Hey my friend was wondering if I can make Em1 with the wey of keifer I've been using it for my garden wanted to know your opinion on the subject though

I am so glad I got this info! I was just about to start a compost tea and now I know that I should do a KNF lab brew, add some nice beer yeast and spirulina!!! I love this, knowledge is power

Nice work. Thank you for being a probiotic person.

We have an invasive , foreign invasive tree that is susceptible to a bacteria I’m gonna go look up again now . I think the thought of using biology to wipe out an invasive species is much better than laying waste to everything with a dangerous herbicide any day . This plant I’m referring to is in the bean family and was introduced here from Japan many call a mimosa tree . They make Beans , live and die fast but spread everywhere . I’d like to use the wood for compost . A non native pioneer species that I’d love to meet its demise here because it has the ability to take over like Chinese privet or Chinese tallow trees . Thanks for your videos Matt . I learn more and more every day.

love your channel. And how excited you get about this stuff. The giggles. Your not from placer county by chance are you?

Are those homeostatic soil organisms in ingestible EM?

I'm drinking my EM's too and somehow since I started with I have the feeling that I'm less hungry. Hard to explain, but I have the feeling my body is using my food more effectively and getting more of it. Moreover a nice side effect: Your poop doesn't smell bad anymore :D

10:24 Holy Shit Dude, I think You’ve figured it out! This resonates with me at least lol, no idea why I’m so excited about it.

!!!Excellent, impassioned explanation, Matt! I'm contemplating how to share these things in Spanish... Thank you!

I love this guy so much

Matt, you are so inspiring! I'm pinging right now with excitement... this is great. I'm a fan of EM insomuch as, I believe, it can lure people into connecting more with the soil and their body. To live a probiotic life :) I'd be interested to know about milk kefir too, did you know that apparently the grains cannot be re-created by mixing the individual species of microbes together. Have you done a vid or planning one on KNF and the sequencing? Thanks for all you are doing for this community and the world. Much love💚

very good it confirm what people in korea and japan are saying..

Matt if this isn't too out of line to ask just how old or rather young are you? It's impressive the work you've done and you look in my opinion to be very young. Just a personal curiosity of mine please don't feel pressured to answer out of politeness. Thank you for your videos

Great information. 👍😆

So the first 2 ingredients for proper EM1 are easy to come by. But where do I get PNSB = Rhodopseudomonas Palustris if I don't want to buy a commercial product?

Great explanation, very good!! You has or met some place on the internet that shows how they prepare the EM.1 (Efficient Microorganisms)? Would it be rice water and milk?

Keto for your stomach along with kefir.

Matt, how does the human consumption EM compare to the many microbes found in milk kefir? Wouldn't mk be a much less expensive option, and also a lot fresher with a guarantee of all microbes being alive? Or is there something specific in this product that has health benefits that differ from the milk kefir microbes?

Very good thank you

Hey Matt, I copied one of the lists that you momentarily flashed on the screen from the database. The list starting with The Farm Lab, Denver Soil Consulting etc. When i tried to google these Companies I was unsuccessful? I find that a little concerning? Not sure what is going on? Not one of them came up? Do you think they are being blocked somehow? Norman

Wow .Thanks for the video

But Matt, how do we get this bottle of valluable EM1 microbiotics in our guts, if the stomach is so low ph / and sour !!!

That mimosa is susceptible to fusarium fungus also but I believe there is a bacteria also . The Latin on it had 4 words species name with the last being aureus by why don’t I write things down and quit relying on memory ? Anyways , fusarium isn’t good to have around for sure in a nursery . I can tell you an easy fix I’ve found though for damping off of new seedlings . Works within the days length for me on maple seedlings . If they look droopy and sick and are leaning over , mix 1 tablespoon of h2o2 to a gallon of distilled water and mist the seedlings lightly . They stand back up and usually don’t give any more trouble when in that critical stage and only seed leaves .

7:05 Ok that was deeply profound, I’m really starting to get it!!!

Amazing, thanks SO MUCH for the work you're doing, it's mind-blowing! Much respect! I'm intrigued to know how green spirulina compares to the blue in terms of PNSB content, have you tested it yet?

So much knowledge!

Can I use with a worm tea?

This is interesting stuff, but it is pushing me even further and further into believing that “EM” is about as unhelpful of a term as “friendly microbes.” It’s not even something that is semi-coherent as a community to me like a “scoby” it just seems more like an industry generic name for any arbitrary selection of the minority of endemic active microbes we are capable of identifying. And really, if they’re so endemic to all environments then why does anyone need to inoculate with them if they aren’t in thoroughly abused soil?

Great info!! ❤️

Hi Matt, you need data on adding these to soil with a complete food web around them and without. The ecology has been ignored in this presentation perhaps.

I love your vídeos mate, but that serious to crazy laugh then back to serious thing you do freaks me a little😅. Such great content though and love your passion.

fascinating stuff Matt, another sleepless night after your Johnson Su = high nitrate comment during the chat with the wormies guy yesterday, EM seems to be a sloution, would I be correct to add EM to the bioreactor after the thermo stage? with worms? or after worms have done their thing ~12 months later?

Does your book teach you how to make the bio fertilizers?

I’m new to this channel, and blown away. Just wow! Now I’m wondering, are you in touch with Zach Bush, combining forces on this matter?

Have you thought about working with Dave Asprey for funding and support?

Gossips don't enlighten others

You sir are such a wealth of knowledge! I become more and more inspired with every video of yours I watch. As a newbie, I have a quick question.... would brewers yeast be present in spent brewers grain? Would this in theory be an easy method of beginning Bokashi? Would Bokashi Composting in theory maximize yeast presence?

I am curious as to whether a literal shot of compost tea could supplement missing gut biology if simply drank? Obviously, eating food grown with good compost is ideal but what of a more direct method?.

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Hey Matt, very interesting. Thank you. In regard to the TeraGanix label claim that it is straight LAB, Eric Lancaster seems to have claimed more than that, back in Dec. of 2017. Perhaps I'm reading more into his words than I should. On the Soil King KZfaq Channel, a video entitled: "Soil King Showcase Season 1 Episode #9 ( EM1 & TeraGanix)", it features Eric Lancaster, TeraGanix VP (at the time). From 4:36 to 8:36 of that video, he explains what EM-1 is, according to TeraGanix. At the 5:30 point, he denies TeraGanix EM-1 is nothing more than "straight Lactobacillus;" with nothing else in it. He says, clearly: "It's a mixture of groups of microbes," "not just a straight Lactobacillus product. It's got a lot of lactic acid bacteria in it; but also has photosynthetic bacteria, and yeast in it, which not only provide enzymes and amino acids, but also help the plant to uptake" (... those plus minerals more efficiently). Did you ever run tests on it? Or is that legally "forbidden", as reverse engineering a patented product? I have no legal knowledge there. At the 8:32 point, Lancaster says that "all the microbes in EM-1 are on the FDA GRAS List," implying it's not just LAB; but more to his contextual point, that they, (not it,) could be used in (human) food," technically; which he backs up by drinking a shot of it, LIVE on set. If I may ask a basic question, please: Is LAB facultative? If there is photosynthetic bacteria in there as well, would they be facultative as well? Are all the strains in the other bottle, for human consumption, facultative? None that are aerobic? Is straight LAB alone able to wipe out a WhiteFly infestation? That's what TeraGanix claims and that it makes a great foliar spray, not as a "pesticide", but as an metabolic bio-stimulant of immunity & nutrient density, making it more resistant to pests.

Which one of your books best covers the topics of this this topic?

Can I use EM-1 in my fungal dominated compost tea ? If so, how much would you add to a 5 gallon bucket of tea ? Thanks Matt!

I highly recommend looking into nutritional balancing/mineral balancing as it was created by dr Paul Eck. Saved my gut. But EM did wonders, too! IMO bacteria is part of the story. The other parts are light, water, magnetism, but most of all mineral BALANCE and interactions. Look into ionomics, ionic mimicry with heavy metals, etc as it was discovered in soil science by William Albrecht. It’s all tied together! All the best

What about chlorella ?

Great video, Matt. Would sour dough starter be a good source of EM? I've already got a bunch of that and it sounds like the culturing process for EM (from rice water) is sort of similar. I'm sure the ratios of the various microbes are different but I imagine they're mostly all still represented...?

Good video buddy

#FacultativeMicrobes

anyone who says EM is "bad" has obviously never used it!

Thank you, this is answering so many of my questions. I have always felt that EM is amazing.

Yes 10:15

May I say congratulations brother! Just got the email alert! You did it! Never doubted it for a second! Absolutely wonderful brother! Super excited for the future of soil : life .. Thank you so much for everything. Matt! 😃🌱💚🙏✨🍄🪱🔥🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

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@20:30 This is where it goes wrong. Humans need real food, a little bit of fiber: you get your EM from yogurt, bread and green leafy plants with some sea salt, actually. Not some bacterial culture.

Why do you just stop and laughing for no reason…😊

Matt did you remove my comment? Or youtube? Please let me know 🙏

Read “let’s talk shit!” By dr Hazan.

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God bless you man! you're great treasure I wish you long long long life