Attempting to decide what we want to put in the Soil is beside the point. Diversity allows the plants a great variety to feed that way they are in control.
Thanks for all of the quality content! These talks have been incredibly informative. Your questions are always on point - technical enough to bring thoughtful, more specific answers. I can also really appreciate how much space you give Peter, here, to respond and explore the idea you've presented. Truly quality work you're doing.
So Elaine recommends starting materials of 60-70% brown woody(fungi), 20-30% green(bacteria), 10% high nitrogen(party food).turn only three times each time new 1/3 of section goes into middle. This is to pasteurize, kill pathogens. Temps of 130-160f. Then let sit, cool, and inoculate with local forest humus,it's filled of fungi. My pile temp went from around 70°f to around 90f with many fruitings after watering. Since starting material is 60-70% wood it's going to be fungi dominated. Thanks for the great video Diego. Everything just gets more complex ha
Diego! I love this video! This dude is my style. Has anyone watched Paul Stamets' Ted Talk "6 WAYS MUSHROOMS CAN SAVE THE WORLD?" His talk gives me goosebumps and makes me emotional. Have you ever interviewed Paul Stamets?
Hi, Diego! I have been following your channels for some time now, and simply I can't understand why you don't get more viewers, especially with such outstanding interviews. Anyway, thank you!
I’m certainly no expert but I know what works for me. Biological (especially fungal) diversity and abundant edges!Fungi are really essential! In my perennial fruit tree beds, I have diverse patches of soil obtained over the years wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow from soils exposed from construction efforts around my farm into which I have vertically buried pieces of downed branches collected on hikes from the surrounding National Forest that have been colonized by native fungi. My orchard beds lie on a hillside. The bottom edge of each terraced bed is stacked sod. Against that I piled dead branches collected from the property. The whole thing was then covered with topsoil (and subsequently additional soils containing various amendments such as biochar). The trees are mulched with a diverse mix of wood chips obtained from the electric utility and the beds between the trees are sown with a diverse mix of clover and other beneficial and useful ground covers. The lanes between the rows are just mowed grass. My goal in constructing these beds was to infiltrate and store water in the hugelkulture-style beds, to facilitate the growth of diverse fungi, to maximize soil biodiversity, to fix Nitrogen and to trick the trees into thinking that they are living on the edge of a natural forest. This arrangement appears to work extremely well. The sod wall is unsupported and while it has settled here and there differentially, it has not collapsed or experienced any washouts. For aesthetic reasons, I have begun to add a stone retaining wall backfilled with sand and gravel as a wraparound below it.
I think Peter is a bit off about something here. Fungi do not produce carbon, they liberate it. Earth has a finite amount of carbon, which was created by stars. Fungi release carbon that was captured by plants, but a certain percentage of that carbon is sequestered as long-lived hyphal structures, which serve as food for other nutrient cycling players in the soil food web. So in the bigger picture, the dance of carbon is moving from the atmosphere into the soil, and back again, and the more complete the soil biological community is, the more overall carbon stays locked up as organic soil components.
It is said that mycorrhizal f can only transfer certain minerals but contain other minerals in their cells. Since arbuscular structures only last 3-7 days before dissolving, how is it possible not to transfer everything?
In industrial societies, we focus on industrial sources of greenhouse gas pollution and on the lifestyles that support and are supported by these industrial systems. However, we neglect and significantly underestimate the much larger effect that the unnatural and highly disruptive land use patterns that result from the construction of such systems have on greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions are a direct result of a reset of successional state that occurs as a consequence of repeated ecological disturbance (particularly to the Earth’s soils) that is being caused by humans on a global scale which, collectively, serve to increase the proportion of microbial-dominated soils resulting in a subsequent and significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The solution is to develop lower disturbance human development patterns, possibly underground that would leave the surface soils intact and undisturbed for use as lower impact forest gardens, recreation and wildlife habitat.
Attempting to decide what we want to put in the Soil is beside the point. Diversity allows the plants a great variety to feed that way they are in control.
This episode and the one about Trichoderma are 2 episodes I've watched more than once. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for all of the quality content! These talks have been incredibly informative. Your questions are always on point - technical enough to bring thoughtful, more specific answers. I can also really appreciate how much space you give Peter, here, to respond and explore the idea you've presented. Truly quality work you're doing.
So Elaine recommends starting materials of 60-70% brown woody(fungi), 20-30% green(bacteria), 10% high nitrogen(party food).turn only three times each time new 1/3 of section goes into middle. This is to pasteurize, kill pathogens. Temps of 130-160f. Then let sit, cool, and inoculate with local forest humus,it's filled of fungi. My pile temp went from around 70°f to around 90f with many fruitings after watering. Since starting material is 60-70% wood it's going to be fungi dominated.
Thanks for the great video Diego. Everything just gets more complex ha
Diego! I love this video! This dude is my style. Has anyone watched Paul Stamets' Ted Talk "6 WAYS MUSHROOMS CAN SAVE THE WORLD?" His talk gives me goosebumps and makes me emotional. Have you ever interviewed Paul Stamets?
Hi, Diego! I have been following your channels for some time now, and simply I can't understand why you don't get more viewers, especially with such outstanding interviews.
Anyway, thank you!
An amazing and enlightening interview, I learned so much. Thank you for your efforts.
I’m certainly no expert but I know what works for me. Biological (especially fungal) diversity and abundant edges!Fungi are really essential! In my perennial fruit tree beds, I have diverse patches of soil obtained over the years wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow from soils exposed from construction efforts around my farm into which I have vertically buried pieces of downed branches collected on hikes from the surrounding National Forest that have been colonized by native fungi. My orchard beds lie on a hillside. The bottom edge of each terraced bed is stacked sod. Against that I piled dead branches collected from the property. The whole thing was then covered with topsoil (and subsequently additional soils containing various amendments such as biochar). The trees are mulched with a diverse mix of wood chips obtained from the electric utility and the beds between the trees are sown with a diverse mix of clover and other beneficial and useful ground covers. The lanes between the rows are just mowed grass. My goal in constructing these beds was to infiltrate and store water in the hugelkulture-style beds, to facilitate the growth of diverse fungi, to maximize soil biodiversity, to fix Nitrogen and to trick the trees into thinking that they are living on the edge of a natural forest. This arrangement appears to work extremely well. The sod wall is unsupported and while it has settled here and there differentially, it has not collapsed or experienced any washouts. For aesthetic reasons, I have begun to add a stone retaining wall backfilled with sand and gravel as a wraparound below it.
It is amazing at this late a date of civilization we knew the least about crop farming and soils, which launched said civilization.
fungi are absolutely amazing. Great talk!!
Great Talk Bro! hit so many topics I agree on your guys thought process. Thank you
I am worried there's not mushroom left for boring guys like me if fun guys grow everywhere... mind blowing interview btw
I see what you did there!
Great work and thank you Diego for bring this topics to us!
Thanks Diego!
Thanks
I think Peter is a bit off about something here. Fungi do not produce carbon, they liberate it. Earth has a finite amount of carbon, which was created by stars. Fungi release carbon that was captured by plants, but a certain percentage of that carbon is sequestered as long-lived hyphal structures, which serve as food for other nutrient cycling players in the soil food web. So in the bigger picture, the dance of carbon is moving from the atmosphere into the soil, and back again, and the more complete the soil biological community is, the more overall carbon stays locked up as organic soil components.
It is said that mycorrhizal f can only transfer certain minerals but contain other minerals in their cells. Since arbuscular structures only last 3-7 days before dissolving, how is it possible not to transfer everything?
Dr. James White has done great work on plant rhizophagy.
Love it Diego, thank you :)
In industrial societies, we focus on industrial sources of greenhouse gas pollution and on the lifestyles that support and are supported by these industrial systems. However, we neglect and significantly underestimate the much larger effect that the unnatural and highly disruptive land use patterns that result from the construction of such systems have on greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions are a direct result of a reset of successional state that occurs as a consequence of repeated ecological disturbance (particularly to the Earth’s soils) that is being caused by humans on a global scale which, collectively, serve to increase the proportion of microbial-dominated soils resulting in a subsequent and significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The solution is to develop lower disturbance human development patterns, possibly underground that would leave the surface soils intact and undisturbed for use as lower impact forest gardens, recreation and wildlife habitat.
Yay, done processing a couple chickens and return to a new ISOS . Time to relax. :)
What was the fungi and bacteria that was important for phosphor called?
I believe it's in the brand Mammoth. It's a bacteria inoculate