New Soil Food Web Science | Jeff Lowenfels

What does every farmer and gardener need to know to improve plant health and increase yields?
Discover fascinating new facts about the soil food web in this interview with Jeff Lowenfels, author of Teaming with Bacteria, Teaming with Microbes, and more.
JEFF LOWENFELS
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[@eQui253]

I garden since I am 15 years old. Now I am 35. This year I've read teaming with microbes from this awesome guy . I am looking at my garden with different eyes now. I always did stuff organic, but now I see why, how and where to do it.
currently reading teaming with nutrients and I am for sure gonna read the other 2 books aswell.

[@GrowBigTVwithJoeandKorky]

Love this interview

[@ryankowarsky5086]

Love this interview! Great job! Love his books!!! ❤️🙌🏽☀️🙏

[@johnfowler4820]

Bacteria is the new dinosaurs. Bravo, thank you so much. I really hope this research reaches agricultural colleges in time.

[@jamesboyd-li5pw]

Natalie, your guest is a uniquely knowledgeable person, to draw a picture with words explaining how the food web and the biological transitions take place just simply blows mind !! Think I'll consider a microscope for agriculture entertainment as well as picking up a world of knowledge !! Great show Natalie, hope I can retain the information I obtained in this session... Thanks 👍😊👍❤️💯

[@soilsciencecommunicator]

Great interview but what’s the deal with this background music?

[@HeartandSoil]

Thanks for pointing that out! I think it's fixed now.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

Congratulations on the new teeming rhizophagy and plant science information. Hello jeff.where do you hang out nowadys. Wow i have missed your 2006 book and apparently later books too. Dennis "nosoil no food"....what is your current definition of soil. Dennis currently 2024... i now wondering what feeds
me in KS. Guess i better buy microbiometer next. Are we going to learn parameciam sp benefits next???Dennis

[@BrixThePlanter]

I got all 3 books, I’m getting through em!!!!! 💚💚💚💚

[@randalmoroski1184]

I wouldn’t put it past NASA to claim ‘space’ photos,when actually microscopic…

[@damedesmontagnes]

I wish I knew who to talk to about the spent mushroom blocks (oyster chestnut and lion's mane) I planted and if they'll be ok for my new lasagna garden layers and the cover crops and vegetable plants I'll plant later this year and next year. There are layers of leaf mulch mixed with grass from the forest, aged organic horse manure with tons of red worms, some partly decomposed woodchips, and aged manure mixed with native soil and sawdust at the bottom, lactobacillus, probiotic and nutrition solution, homemade compost on top, spent substrate blocks covered in mulched organic wheat straw. Will later add soil then plant cover crops. im just wondering if all those spent blocks are going to outcompete all the other fungi that the plants need. Oops! Hopefully the worms will help to balance things out. I just cant find out information about that online when I search for it. Do you know who could help me?

[@icow285]

My two cents the spent blocks will add extra carbon to the mix and won't damage your fungal diversity. The different crops you grow will initiate changes in the fungal diversity too. Sounds like you have great resident microbial diversity and are off to a good start! Keep it up.

[@donovanclayton5763]

33:10 Buying bacteria from different parts of the world, ie non native colonies and different populations, I fear we’re setting ourselves up for a different kind of environmental disaster. Composting locally and promoting the microbes already present in your immediate environment is (likely?) how we’ll maintain the planets cyclical functioning.

[@marcellawaganer420]

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