I noted at the 6:46 mark in this video that Dr Johnson says this can reach a thermophilic phase that will meet USDA requirements if built right. I understand that microbial activity is what heats up a static pile, so my question is if anyone knows what is the ratio of high nitrogen, greens and browns in the pile does the pile compromise of to get to the temperatures he noted?
@trendsetter7576 ай бұрын
hi, i am working on carbon farming project in my PhD. i am happy to connect
@moniquelefebvre47987 ай бұрын
interesting, thank you! All the best from Canada
@roycehunter392811 ай бұрын
cap
@inspiremcmusic Жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@graemeozzie2251 Жыл бұрын
I don't really understand the baseline rationale particularly with biodiversity. We have baselines everywhere. They are over the fence in the neighbors. Surely a baseline that's combination of modelling and measuring can be produced wirh high accuracy. We do this for climate change itself. If we can model reasonably accurately into the future surely, with the benefit of actual historical data we can model and measure back to a past and then fwd to a likely present. I know exactly what my soil would be like if I'd stuck to status quo management. It would be very close to an average if my surrounding neighbors. We pick a start date say 2000, there's your baseline.
@graemeozzie2251 Жыл бұрын
Do you have to decide at very start of project if you want 25 or 100 year permanence? Is there a period where you can upgrade or downgrade. I can't imagine why you would elect a 100 year permanace before your first carbon testing (after baselining). That would seem an extremely risky thing to do. But I can see it as plausible after some verification your practice change is working.
@sh-zm7xl Жыл бұрын
Finally!!!! so few people understand the basics of how carbon gets sequestered in the soil via the roots supplying sugars to the microbes! And yes, those microbes are essential for plant growth. I’m also thankful for the visual of the difference in soil from regenerative agriculture.
@nomnommonsterr Жыл бұрын
What am i missing? So me as a farner, i can signup with you, increase carbon content in soil and get paid?
@mroakarm Жыл бұрын
These charts are fine and dandy but where is all the hands on info of how to integrate this biology into the soil. The charts which show how to deal with the different soil types and how to use this on a small setting. The different problems that may arise of using too little or too much? Are there any other videos of exactly how to use this biology from the reactor other than his using pictures?
@brendanbrown8704 Жыл бұрын
Could Johnson-Su be scaled up to use as a municipal form of composting organic matter? I am interested in how this could be utilized by a town or community for home composting pick up and yard waste at a large scale. The product is then recycled to area farms and gardeners. Any feedback on this would be appreciated!
@davidighernandez2 жыл бұрын
How much compost do you apply per acre?
@peterclark62902 жыл бұрын
Food security: Hans Rosling has pointed out that increased Third World wealth is reducing population growth for possibly a number of reasons: e.g. they no longer have to provide their own late in life carer, a richer (educated) child will be of more help than a batch of peasants, they can save for retirement, etc. Nutrition (quality) is more important and the Industrial Ag/Green Revolution has gone in completely the wrong direction (Dr. Zach Bush). Declining arable land - a completely man-made problem, reversible with *Regenerative Agricultural* practices. Ditto, soil quality (productivity) of existing and reclaimed land.
@peterclark62902 жыл бұрын
Paying farmers to be half decent farmers is Alice in Wonderland thinking. Building productive soil so that it is productive year after year, that it becomes independent from natural cycles, thus giving a farm more options is the game, the only game and asking taxpayers to fund that is an academic/government solution. Defeating Inertia is a co-dependent exercise. Furthermore he has (Lecture 1) just described the carbon cycle, what it does for the land: so who needs Academics and Politicians telling you are a good boy? I get it, take advantage of their dullness, but when you do it for yourself, your farm, your future, you effectively become a professional, a businessman and a farmer.
@benriggan52672 жыл бұрын
Remarkably underappreciated information.
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@caroline618042 жыл бұрын
Ummm I sure hoping u all just kidding
@caroline618042 жыл бұрын
Lol. Ha ha ha ha. O goodnesses
@caroline618042 жыл бұрын
I just don’t get it. Sounds like voodoo
@Nuskeros2 жыл бұрын
Is there any way some of the principles could be meaningful on established groves?
@busker1532 жыл бұрын
Would you please stop interjecting your stupid religion into an otherwise scientific presentation? The earth is not six billion years old.
@666bruv2 жыл бұрын
Yeah silly sausages, it's 4.5byo
@subash152 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic information!! Thank you so much for sharing …
@paulbraga44602 жыл бұрын
catalytic nutrients - with the compost extract - fish emulsion, molasses, boron, sulfur, calcium
@paulbraga44602 жыл бұрын
compost extract (biology + organic acids)- 1 ton of good compost into 30,000 liters of water (ideal) - application rate foliar - 50-100 liters of compost extract per hectare
@farmingwithtariq3 жыл бұрын
what is an ideal condition for propagation of MO in the soil ?
@frankpolk43743 жыл бұрын
It may not be realistic to water the outdoor reactor daily in cold northern climates. Is watering during winter an absolute must? Any other options?
@pierrehouwers66602 жыл бұрын
It holds its moisture really well. I occasionally check up on them and that could be once a month during winter. All depends on your materials used as well
@MetallicAddict153 жыл бұрын
8:00 This is confusing to me. In part 4, you pointed out that additional SOC storage seemed to flatline above 3% SOM, implying that from that point on, the additional C captured goes into the plant instead of the soil. In Gabe's case, however, the SOC content seemed to increase expontentially rapidly at exactly 3%. These two things seem contradictory. What's the explanation for this?
@Smokeyknows3 жыл бұрын
Very informative, thank you.
@anhkimphan5143 жыл бұрын
Can I build it shorter 4ft
@MrSeney13 жыл бұрын
Normaly i speak french , so what the difference between wowen landescape within felt landescape cloth ? Thx !
@MrSeney13 жыл бұрын
@@alastairleith8612 Thx for the answer !
@ufohakunamaka60493 жыл бұрын
Please I have difficulty getting the landscape cover fabric . Can I use black plastic with holes made on them
@alastairleith86123 жыл бұрын
that will not breath as well. the black woven fabric will breath at every millimeter, holes wont work as well. use something natural that is woven if that is available? old sheets or something? they wont last as many composts, but will breath better.
@IS-2173 жыл бұрын
Hello everyone. Has anyone built one of these compost systems in Canada? I live in Ontario, zone 5a. We get a lot of snow where I live there is currently about 1.5 - 2 feet of snow on top of my compost pile in my yard. How does the winter effect tis system? Water, freezing temperatures, composting timeline 12months? Or more? Also does everyone add worms to the pile? Any experience and help is greatly appreciated. I love the idea of this system.
@williamchurch6143 жыл бұрын
Can I build it shorter by using 4"x4"x4' tall wire fencing? Or is that not enough mass?
@alastairleith86123 жыл бұрын
would be fine I think. the scale of micro-bacteria is 10⁻⁶ (six orders of magnitude difference to the height and width of the containment vessel.
@davideforesti75563 жыл бұрын
The results are really interesting but the system seems not to be different from traditional farming practices to me. In the Alps people collect the waste from the stable ( mostly a mix of straw, hay and manure ) compost it on piles and after 1 or 2 years spread it in the fields. Although farmers think about it as an amendment rather than an inoculum, what’s the difference in practice? Are you comparing yields with degraded or poor managed lands?
@joeshmoe77893 жыл бұрын
A lot of work. Leaf mold takes a year or 2 to break down. Hot compost takes much less time if turned regularly. I'd rather hot compost each winter and let the worms come naturally. After a few years of adding compost and the worms doing their thing, less compost will be needed. The first year you use your compost will give great results while attracting worms while the Bioreactor is still processing.
@wadepatton24333 жыл бұрын
Do you find turning a compost pile to be less work than stacking one that needs no turning, ever?
@joeshmoe77893 жыл бұрын
@@wadepatton2433 This material comes out hard and compacted, much harder to sift. Turning the pile 5 times might be a little bit of work spread out over 6 months, but the finished material screen easy. You need to run water everyday. Need to run hoses out daily or water buckets in the winter. If I didn't turn my hot pile, I'd probably have similar results after a year, just hosing it down once in awhile in the summer months. Earthworms will come naturally to a hot pile built on the ground after it cools. I turn my Geo Bin 5 times thru the winter and put it away for the summer, out of sight. I still don't understand how red wigglers can do much as they live 6" from the top. I've watched many videos on this and haven't seen one the shows how to transfer the finished material to the garden or show proof of its worth, just theory. Until I see proof, I'll stick with my hot bio reactor.
@wadepatton24333 жыл бұрын
@@joeshmoe7789 I've seen all the proof I need to see. I've seen the results of innoculated seeds as well as water injected drillings (direct replacement of chemical ferts with extracts from compost). Best of luck with yours. I see nothing hard and compacted here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8-pdtiKnZvKqpc.html
@joeshmoe77893 жыл бұрын
@@wadepatton2433 I still haven't seen the proof. Why doesn't Johnson show the final results anywhere? I'd like to see a comparison of gardens with and without his compost. I don't know about most seeds, but I do know tomato and pepper seeds and they are self inoculated. They don't need outside nutrition until they have their first sets of permanent leaves. Please check my comment on the link you sent. That video is a joke and and a waste of time.
@mdgraller3 жыл бұрын
@@joeshmoe7789 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbVioap51pqUiJc.html here's another talk Dr. Johnson gave in 2020. At the timestamp I linked, he demonstrates (against control gardens) the results of using his compost and technique over the short-to-medium term (1yr to 7yrs under the BEAM regimen)
@leelindsay56183 жыл бұрын
These are great for a quick refresher.
@realfoodman3 жыл бұрын
This is blowing my mind!
@leelindsay56183 жыл бұрын
Disking in? Too much tillage. Rolling flat with a roller crimper would be better.
@redddbaron4 жыл бұрын
https:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/et6Fes5im5ewqWw.html
@sacredcowbbq13264 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great video series. I'd like to make a suggestion, if I may. How about putting it into a playlist so they'll play sequentially automatically?
@jjime11754 жыл бұрын
Why does government worry about a natural product leaching into the ground but allow chemicals to be sprayed in millions of gallons per year into the soil? Any leaching is not harmful since it is an organic material that is found in nature all over the world.
@aldeangoodei66044 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, it was very interesting and important info about the soil and its environment relationships, I'm happy when you mentioned the Dynamics correlation to the process, as it shows an important matter inside your experience project. so all organisms together circulating in the system and true not linear. please make sure the importance of water ratio here too as I think it may need 3 quarters to one in order to balance the equation for growth, health, and long life. cheers
@Horse2374 жыл бұрын
I have been studying for 2 years. This and his other lecture on building a Bioreactor for composting.
@arcadia10814 жыл бұрын
I have built a horse manure hot bed this year to use next early spring.
@xDanoss318x4 жыл бұрын
If you can't use Glyphosate, do you plough? or how do you manage the weeds?
@xDanoss318x4 жыл бұрын
Rod Ciferri Thats not how it works. Do you even have any experience??
@xDanoss318x4 жыл бұрын
Rod Ciferri Why are you so rude?! I just shared my experience that this method doesn‘t work and you straight up accuse me of wanting people to get cancer! WTF? Do you have any decency? Why is it that people on the internet always want to fight/ blame/ insult people? Childish mentality...
@rodciferri96264 жыл бұрын
@@xDanoss318x What is it with people on the internet who equate rudeness with disagreement and who assume someone who disagrees with them doesn't have the "experience" to do so?
@xDanoss318x4 жыл бұрын
Rod Ciferri Don‘t worry about me. I am a farmer in Germany. Financially very stable through diverse income streams. GMO crops are forbidden. My land is good. I just want do better you know? I know I am harming my soils and the environment with my practices. I want to turn that around. I want my kids and their kids to have even better growing conditions than I have, not worse. My bottleneck is knowledge, not money.
@xDanoss318x4 жыл бұрын
Rod Ciferri I hope you are right, and that farms will be like Joe Salatin‘s in the future. But at the moment I tend to believe that that will not be the case and that farms will stay big/ get even bigger (at least here in Germany)
@martinwhitehurst98934 жыл бұрын
Hi, how did you figure out 1/3 of each material for this?
@bosatsu764 жыл бұрын
Makes me wonder what the heck IS clay... I thought it was ground up rock, but this comes from pure vegetable matter... Does this bypass the humus stage? That crumbly earthy stuff..? Seems impermeable to anything above a bacteria as far as living environment.
@KitmaNara4 жыл бұрын
Clay (mostly) refers to particle size, rather than composition. It also depends on who you ask, because different disciplines have different definitions or clay vs. silt. Clay can be finely ground rock with some organic matter. There are some surprising critters that could get in this stuff I image; earthworms, moles, various insects.
@denisecares61244 жыл бұрын
can you let rainfall wet down the pile during winter? Irrigation is turned off during winter freeze, so what alternative is there to keeping pile properly moist in winter? Is several feet of snow resting on the pile going to hurt it? Should it be covered most of the time with landscape fabric other than during rainfall? Is it bad to get it too wet?
@xDanoss318x4 жыл бұрын
Since he lives in New Mexico, he probably doesn't have harsh winters. So you'll probably have to try yourself. But my guess is, that the cold doesn't hurt the compost too much. As in nature, everything freezes in the winter anyway. If you have heavy snowfalls, you should probably build a sturdy cover.
@denisecares61244 жыл бұрын
how do you apply this to your garden once it's finished since it is such a dense clay like material?
@w8stral4 жыл бұрын
till......... just like normal
@kenknutson15984 жыл бұрын
Might be better to extract or side dress or mulch. Less disruption of the soil organism community. Smorgasbord or bar instead of force feeding after a tornado destroys your home.
@joeshmoe77893 жыл бұрын
@@w8stral What about the worms?
@alastairleith86123 жыл бұрын
@@kenknutson1598 agree, though sometimes biodynamic advisors tell people with really compacted and degraded soils (packed clay with little soil life) to rip them open and apply BD500 (which is pretty similar to a compost tea)
@kenknutson15983 жыл бұрын
@@joeshmoe7789 the worms in the buckets in my home art my kitchen waste digesters. I separate the castings from the worms and put them back to work eating organic kitchen waste, and either mix the castings with soil for starting seeds, side dressing house plants or the garden, or brewing down for worm compost tea. I have plenty of worms in my landscape. I have garden waste digesters that hold garden waste for the worms to come and eat, later spreading their castings into the garden.