Wild Harvesting Mycorrhizal Fungi Using THESE?

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  • A funny looking trick to capture mycorrhizal fungi from the forest soil in order to inoculate our orchard soil.
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  • @ConverseChiro
    @ConverseChiro Рік тому +6

    I've read that the Rice needs to be cooked (sticky rice works the best) and cooled before putting into the stocking. When you bury it leave it for at least a month for best population.

  • @cmsplitt
    @cmsplitt 6 років тому +28

    I died at the "natural pool" bit, I just love your deadpan sarcasm. You get me. ;)

  • @debbiebittner8125
    @debbiebittner8125 6 років тому +6

    It’s a mutualistic relationship. Without fungus, plants could never had colonized the bare rock. Without the plants, the fungus would have a hard time obtaining moisture and it gets food from the plants. Taught high school science for over 30 years. Loved it

  • @jonobmxjohn6235
    @jonobmxjohn6235 6 років тому +21

    hello my name is john and I'm from Australia I am fourteen and live in suburbia keep up homesteading for me so I can keep watching you make my day awesome u make me able to watch it because I cant do most of the things u can thanks for everything

  • @iamorganicgardening
    @iamorganicgardening 6 років тому +16

    It is getting to know your good neighbors MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI, Endo & Etco... THANKS for Sharing

    • @Pinkenstein
      @Pinkenstein 6 років тому +1

      I AM ORGANIC GARDENING Hello, friend. Your series on how soil works was so good! I want to watch it again and get a better grasp on it, but I'm struggling to find it. The one where you used props; a piece of garden hose, a block of wood etc., and said to plant sunflowers as a stand-in for a tree (I could have that part wrong; like I said, I need to watch it again!). Can you tell me the title of the series so I can review it, please?

  • @liamcarey1085
    @liamcarey1085 6 років тому +3

    So nice of you to donate your stockings for such a good purpose, Art!

  • @MissJen007
    @MissJen007 6 років тому +16

    An idea for the sandpit, put it inside a 3 person dome tent (or bigger), it then provides shade for the kiddies, and you can zip it up when not in use so no animals pee/poop in the sand :)

  • @GaryHardin
    @GaryHardin 6 років тому +3

    your right it is a dream out there. If I were going to go back to a farm, I would model it after what you've done with your homestead. It's organized and balanced. Clean looking as well. Fencing is great and well thought out. Great job.

  • @Moore2Lifepantrylovinprepper
    @Moore2Lifepantrylovinprepper 6 років тому +4

    Art those comfrey leaves are really good for the live stock and great medicinal uses for your family as well

  • @kirstenwhitworth8079
    @kirstenwhitworth8079 6 років тому +2

    I cannot tell you how much I've enjoyed this channel ever since Justin Rhodes introduced you I don't know how long ago. This was an excellent video. Thank you _so_ much.

  • @soilnatureherbanfarmer7562
    @soilnatureherbanfarmer7562 3 роки тому +2

    Also when putting out your cover crop seeds, it is a good idea to lay down straw. Not real thick but enought to keep soil from drying out from wind and the sun. Leave no soil uncovered.

  • @jessies3236
    @jessies3236 6 років тому +1

    Omg yes you and Bri are living the dream in your own slice of heaven!!! It will show in your kids!! The world needs so many more like them!!!

  • @gacha___cookie7736
    @gacha___cookie7736 6 років тому +1

    there is a symbiotic relationship microbes have with the soil and plants there is an entire web they communicate with each other. You look around and see Natures Beautiful Bounty what a blessing for you to share it with us thnx you so much Art & Bri

  • @marieswackyfunfamilyalecia6963
    @marieswackyfunfamilyalecia6963 6 років тому +2

    Really gave you the evil eye... 🤣🤣🤣
    Loved this mish mash. Be blessed today. Xx

  • @shondiaevans12
    @shondiaevans12 6 років тому +2

    I love your cinematography! Your love for your family and the land shine through in every video. Congratulations on your new baby boy! Blessings to you and your family for sharing with us!

  • @katepowell1051
    @katepowell1051 6 років тому +5

    Your homestead is stunning, so incredibly beautiful - you make the best videos out there!!!!!!!

  • @dawnbaker9274
    @dawnbaker9274 6 років тому +2

    Love these multi chore videos. Farming is never just about one thing.

  • @susieq7552
    @susieq7552 6 років тому +2

    Art you make some of the best videos and those baby goats have gotten quite big happy children in the pond I love to see that kind of stuff.

  • @batpherlangkharkrang7976
    @batpherlangkharkrang7976 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for sharing your video homestead ART keep it up 🐔🐓🐥🐈🐕🐖🌱🐐🐄🎥👍👍👍

  • @Chris_Moran
    @Chris_Moran 6 років тому +1

    Korean Natural Farming! Great way to capture those beneficial fungi and microbes!

  • @LearningCurveAcres
    @LearningCurveAcres 6 років тому +2

    Please keep up posted on the fungus harvest.

  • @k.weaver3183
    @k.weaver3183 6 років тому +2

    Thank you for making my morning! Now I'm off to my dreadful job but filled up on your amazing lifestyle first! You make the most beautiful videos! Thank you for sharing!

  • @welshharlequin7722
    @welshharlequin7722 6 років тому +3

    GREAT video today. I really enjoy learning things that (I had not idea about). Very good info on cover crops. Someday, I would like to do this....I just don't have a cow or farm or pig or chicken....etc.

  • @donaldmiller8629
    @donaldmiller8629 6 років тому +11

    Hi Art ,
    I don't walk well and I certainly do not chase chickens to catch them. It's not good for me and possibly not good for the chickens. Excitement , stress , Adrenalin and all that. So , I use a fisherman's net . They come in various sizes so there is a size for everyone. I use a fairly large one with about a six foot handle on it. Just the thing to reach out and catch a chicken. I doubt if it is actually easier on the chicken in terms of pumping Adrenalin and stress . But it is certainly easier on me . And effective also. So it saves time.

  • @TsetsiStoyanova
    @TsetsiStoyanova 6 років тому +1

    I am very thankful

  • @atheanicholls2199
    @atheanicholls2199 6 років тому +6

    Morning Art Bri Joyful Grace Justice and Brighton welcome to the weekend and to end of a wonderful successful week enjoy the video as always appreciated till the next video God bless everyone and have a wonderful day today 👋 beautiful 👶 baby. 🐖🐮🐄🐐🐕🐈🌱🌱🌱☁⛅🏡👍👍👍.

  • @reneep9968
    @reneep9968 6 років тому +1

    It is so beautiful! You all are doing such a fantastic job! Love your mud puddle, I mean pond! There’s not much little boys like better then a mud puddle. Blessings...

  • @maricaplasmans6061
    @maricaplasmans6061 6 років тому +1

    sounds like companion planting I tried that last year with tomatoos and basil worked fabulous. This year it's carrots and they are friends with union, leek, and garlic

  • @1868triniify
    @1868triniify 3 роки тому

    Ah man that sarcasm really got me good lol

  • @deannaschlabach
    @deannaschlabach 6 років тому +1

    Love the sense of humor😂. Great episode and lovely homestead!!!

  • @carolkimbell5174
    @carolkimbell5174 6 років тому +1

    Really enjoyed watching this video! The farm is beautiful! 🐷🐷🐔🐔🌷☘️🌿🎍🌴

  • @eddeetz493
    @eddeetz493 6 років тому +2

    A hanger bent into a v mounted on the end of a can pole makes catching chickens much easier. Hook a leg and or let the pole chase in a boxed area. Fish net idea also sounds good.

  • @Sandfarm
    @Sandfarm 6 років тому +1

    Thanks for the video! Your homestead is gorgeous!

  • @danielportieri1752
    @danielportieri1752 6 років тому +2

    You should use over cooked sticky rice! Retrieve it 2 weeks later discarding the black mouldy ones.

  • @alicelewis7261
    @alicelewis7261 6 років тому +1

    love your place it is so beautiful you are truly bless love watching the kids play in the pond.

  • @cqammaz53
    @cqammaz53 4 роки тому

    I like your gate keeper analogy

  • @MammaBear
    @MammaBear 6 років тому +1

    Love your videos! Actually when I was young I really wanted to live in th mountains were my daddy was raised and live off the land but my live turn in a another direction and with it became single and I got I injured and now 60 so Good luck and enjoy every moment of it,

  • @nevintom6851
    @nevintom6851 6 років тому +2

    I follow this channel called weed em and reep.They just finished this amazing pond and when you said you did it too, i was like wow thats great....It was funny.🤣🤣love you guysss

  • @herbalcat
    @herbalcat 6 років тому +1

    Y’all are amazing!! Love the natural pond! 😂😂

  • @donaldmiller8629
    @donaldmiller8629 6 років тому +29

    Hi Art and Bri ,
    Actually you can make a real pond. You have some sloped land which makes it even easier. For your source of water you can make a modest ram pump and pump water from your creek to the pond and then direct the overflow back to the creek. No net loss of water to the creek. Except for the initial filling of the pond.. Or you can direct rain water from the roof of your barn to the pond. In essence you are capturing and storing rain water.
    Once the pond is created , do not do anything to it. Wait and see what Nature does . You will be simply amazed ! Think you can figure out how you got fish in your pond without putting fish in yourself ?
    I am not certain about this . You will have to inquire yourself but I think that the government will assist in making a pond if it will be large enough. The pond is also a source of water for the fire department water pump trucks. Suppose there is a fire at a nearby farm and the pump truck has run out of water ? They can refill the pump truck from your pond. But the most amazing thing is to see what Nature does with your pond.

    • @wamblipaytah1600
      @wamblipaytah1600 6 років тому +5

      Donald Miller I've heard that fish eggs can stick to goose and duck feet, and thats how lakes get stocked in the wild. Do you think there is any truth to that?? Sounds ::cough:: fishy to me ::errrm::

    • @donaldmiller8629
      @donaldmiller8629 6 років тому +2

      Wambli Peta ,
      I have read the same thing. And not only geese and ducks but other kinds of water birds also. Frogs will also show up seemingly from out of nowhere.

  • @lisaporch8922
    @lisaporch8922 6 років тому +11

    I could not stop laughing when you were describing the pool. I have no idea how you keep a straight face there are probably a bunch of people watching thinking your serious and that makes it even funnier 🤣 I would like to see a video of you trying to catch those naughty piglets 😜

    • @jerryj3854
      @jerryj3854 6 років тому

      LOL. Yeah, it took me a minute to realize he was being tongue-in-cheek about that 'pool'. :D

  • @elisemenne8758
    @elisemenne8758 4 місяці тому

    You are surely blessed beyond my dreams!!!!!! God Bless!!

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees 6 років тому +1

    Watching Art and Bri videos has become a part of my life that I look forward to now. That's OK, though. They are good at handling dependants.

  • @1994abbygirl
    @1994abbygirl 6 років тому +1

    Always a joy to watch your video's! Blessings!

  • @skd5432
    @skd5432 4 роки тому

    the kids seems to love and enjoy the pond..... great! brings back my childhood days water sport play time..

  • @cameroncam12
    @cameroncam12 Рік тому

    Love the pool!

  • @MKCarol-ms7lg
    @MKCarol-ms7lg 6 років тому

    so much info, thanks. Also I love the kiddie pool. LOL

  • @2115virgo13
    @2115virgo13 6 років тому

    Love your homestead! Absolutely living the dream!

  • @StoneyRidgeFarmer
    @StoneyRidgeFarmer 6 років тому

    Yep....we call that a mud hole ....and we love it!! Here in the foot hills we are burried up in the mud right now!!

    • @Brifromscratch
      @Brifromscratch  6 років тому

      I bet, my yard is soggy and we live on a real hill.

    • @StoneyRidgeFarmer
      @StoneyRidgeFarmer 6 років тому

      Yep...cant wait to get up there and see it!

  • @numinous2506
    @numinous2506 2 роки тому

    I'm going to try this. I have 4 pairs of hose. I guess I will pick that many different locations to bury it in. Every gardener I know I will offer to share the end results if I can bury some rice somewhere in their garden until a month before planting time. Then I will let it all sit together and see what happens.

  • @shirk5294
    @shirk5294 6 років тому

    That is just so funny!!! Your pond!! LOL :)

  • @LatinButterfly
    @LatinButterfly 6 років тому +2

    Yes your home and land is very beautiful!!!! One day i will live like your family, ive always has since i was a little girl. That is my dream!!!

  • @sandrabentley1420
    @sandrabentley1420 6 років тому +1

    Art, Comfrey makes a great 'tea' liquid fertilizer too for the garden. Great vlog as always. Thank you.

  • @chelemichele1524
    @chelemichele1524 6 років тому

    The simplest things can make a child so happy❣
    🌻Have a blessed beautiful day🌻

  • @abc_cba
    @abc_cba 2 роки тому +2

    Oh God, you live a blessed life.
    All the prayers for you and your family all the way from India 🇮🇳
    Subscribed.

  • @juliekooiker3408
    @juliekooiker3408 6 років тому

    Oh my goodness you crack me up!!!!! Love it! Your videos are my favorite

  • @ALittleAtATime
    @ALittleAtATime 6 років тому

    So funny! Love your pond!!

  • @patshhi4620
    @patshhi4620 6 років тому

    You certainly have the right demeanor to be a homesteader. There they go...........

  • @nataliemills6644
    @nataliemills6644 Рік тому +1

    Is there a video showing how you harvested and distributed the fungi once it was collected in the rice

  • @destinyranee8300
    @destinyranee8300 6 років тому

    Another great video & very educational

  • @mitcho590
    @mitcho590 2 роки тому +2

    Is there any updates to this? im interested in growing my own Mycorrhizal

  • @MeandYouHello
    @MeandYouHello 6 років тому

    i found 1 video a long time ago about this. i was happy to find this video. i think I've seen you on Justin R vids. thanks for the videos

  • @michelerucker3755
    @michelerucker3755 6 років тому

    Art you are such a smart and fun.....gi.....😂😂😂😂

  • @lisabooker6405
    @lisabooker6405 6 років тому

    Great video. Love the humor. TFS God Bless ~Lisa

  • @elizabethpendleton3421
    @elizabethpendleton3421 6 років тому

    You are truely blessed!

  • @jerrodbrey3347
    @jerrodbrey3347 6 років тому +2

    Love your videos.

  • @Bergalicious38
    @Bergalicious38 6 років тому

    I goin' unda da wall, Sam...snort, snort. I love the pool idea. When we lived in Japan, my mom used to fill a huge metal tub with water. I was only four and remember playing in it. That tub was used for everything. Years, later, here in S.C., our baby ducks swam in it, too.

  • @davidfricker3258
    @davidfricker3258 6 років тому

    You could use a LONG handled hammer and a LONG nosed, needle-nosed pliers ( or a stick with a split end and perhaps rubberbands for securing the staple ) for those low staples.

  • @charlesburkhart800
    @charlesburkhart800 6 років тому

    LOL, natural swimming pool! Too funny! I have so many pictures of our boys, and girl, covered with mud. By the way, you do have a beautiful farm. Stay there, enjoy all the improvements you make. It will become more and more fruitful. That is the kind of farm to keep in the family.

  • @truderenken3248
    @truderenken3248 6 років тому +1

    Yes, that is a dream. I'm dreaming, planning my move to NC!

  • @jennyduncan5799
    @jennyduncan5799 6 років тому

    I ordered comfrey roots from the place you suggested. I was sorry not to order a crown or two for more instant gratification. I did not realize the slower growth. It's all good, i enjoy the process of looking for that green each day for the next month or two.

  • @margaretbedwell58
    @margaretbedwell58 6 років тому +1

    Great video as always Art. Love the POND...kids are having the time of their life in it. Just think, if beavers built a dam in your creek (as they did on Boss of the Swamp, you could actually have a big pond and stock it with fish. Have a Blessed day.

  • @patmurphy389
    @patmurphy389 6 років тому

    i don't know if anyone told you, but you are supposed to trim the apple trees from time to time & you need to dip your sheers in bleach water....i found this out the hard way by cutting branches & not doing this & ended up killing my apple tree! the fungi are a great idea! ty for the video

  • @growmiezhomiez8760
    @growmiezhomiez8760 4 роки тому +1

    Did You Ever Dig the bags back up? i cant find any video followup...

  • @ashleylamberth6865
    @ashleylamberth6865 6 років тому

    Another great video from my favorite UA-cam family!!!

  • @BornAgainFarmGirl
    @BornAgainFarmGirl 6 років тому

    I had a pool like that when I was growing up too 😉❤️ !

  • @Susan77ism
    @Susan77ism 6 років тому

    I hate fluff! So thanks for your non-fluffy videos. I love 'em!

  • @LifeGoesNorth
    @LifeGoesNorth 6 років тому +1

    Hey Art, cool idea with the nylon full of rice. I’m experimenting with the same fungi I found it in a granular form.

  • @amydickinson3284
    @amydickinson3284 6 років тому +1

    It's so green & pretty there. How long will you have to leave the rice buried?

  • @saltybildo9448
    @saltybildo9448 Місяць тому

    Cool digs man👍

  • @debbiebittner8125
    @debbiebittner8125 6 років тому

    I bought the shirt. Very happy with it

  • @avonleanne
    @avonleanne 6 років тому

    another great vid....funny but almost every time I get done watching your vids I say out loud, "OH I wish I had these guys for neighbors, I would learn soooo much", but strangely, I have learned so much and I am a whole state away but you are my YT neighbors, lol....so thanks neighbor

  • @poodledaddles1091
    @poodledaddles1091 6 років тому

    thanks for the video!

  • @hickoryrootfarmstead2700
    @hickoryrootfarmstead2700 6 років тому +1

    Art! You are so baaaaad 😍 Love you and Weed em and Reap

  • @KeystoneJul
    @KeystoneJul 6 років тому

    It is beautiful!

  • @schreibwild
    @schreibwild Рік тому

    If you have too much comfrey - it is also a wonderful healing herb!

  • @chumrobarge1018
    @chumrobarge1018 6 років тому

    Just ordered my shirt! Thanks

  • @gkiferonhs
    @gkiferonhs 6 років тому

    Edible Acres has done a few shows on inoculating his mulch with fungi (in his case commercially productive mushrooms). So most of his trees' mulch is loaded with fungi.

  • @debramurray5132
    @debramurray5132 6 років тому

    Great video

  • @valeried4504
    @valeried4504 6 років тому

    Beautiful place

  • @6996katmom
    @6996katmom 6 років тому

    I did a survey with Teespring about the tee shirts. I told them that it would have been a good idea to let others know that the tees are from Hanes and Hanes runs small. They need to offer bigger sizes. But, that being said, I love my tee and the color and the feel of the imprint feels like velvet. Great pond, the boys love it. Have a blessed day.

  • @gelwood99
    @gelwood99 6 років тому +19

    Laughing hard! Poking at the Weed 'em and Weep channel! 🤣Art you really have such dry humor it kills me!

  • @KingRDC
    @KingRDC 2 роки тому +1

    Hi I just came across your channel today. Did you end up getting the mycorrhizae stockings back?

  • @brianjohnson1273
    @brianjohnson1273 6 років тому +15

    Why on earth don’t you use the wood mulch to cultivate your own mushrooms around the trees and in your grow beds. It is easily done; inoculate the soil by hunting around your supermarkets for out of date edible mushrooms {quite often you can see the mycelium starting to grow]. Sterilize some grain by bringing it up to just below boiling to kill any bacteria then spread it out to allow it to quickly cool so it does not cook. When cold put pieces of cut up mushrooms mixed with the grain into a jar then put is out of the way in a cool place for a couple of weeks [you will see the mycelium as white threads] you then spread the grain under the wet/damp wood chippings NOT DRY. Then leave alone to do their magic free mushrooms for you. DO NOT DISTURB. Good luck.
    Through the mycelium, a fungus that absorbs nutrients from its environment. It does this in a two-stage process. First, the hyphae secrete enzymes onto or into the food source, which break down biological polymers into smaller units such as monomers. These monomers are then absorbed into the mycelium by facilitated diffusion and active transport.
    Mycelium is vital in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems for their role in the decomposition of plant material. They contribute to the organic fraction of soil, and their growth releases carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere (see carbon cycle). Ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelium, as well as the mycelium of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase the efficiency of water and nutrient absorption of most plants and confers resistance to some plant pathogens. Mycelium is an important food source for many soil invertebrates.
    "Mycelium", like "fungus", can be considered a mass noun, a word that can be either singular or plural. The term "mycelia", though, like "fungi", is often used as the preferred plural form.
    Sclerotia are compact or hard masses of mycelium.

  • @donotridetheturtle3512
    @donotridetheturtle3512 6 років тому

    if you add oat flakes to the wood chips you should get lots of myco for the apple tree roots

  • @planetbob4709
    @planetbob4709 6 років тому

    pigs are smart, you might want to use something to secure the wire tight to the ground. I use 2' lengths of rebar with one end bent into a jayhook then pound it into the ground . I do this about every 4 feet.

  • @bradypiso3939
    @bradypiso3939 2 роки тому

    I was wondering if trichoderma will kill other beneficial fungi like beauvaria bassiana and this m.

  • @gratituderanch9406
    @gratituderanch9406 6 років тому

    We had a tree chopped down and kept all the wood chips. Not that long after sitting they had all these beautiful white mycorrhizal fungi strings throughout. I think they just naturally show up in woodchips.

    • @CraigOverend
      @CraigOverend 6 років тому

      Communities of saprotrophic ("rotten material" + "plant") fungal hyphae (web) that break down wood chips and above ground plant litter tend to fruit mushrooms to spread their spores by air, mold uses explosive sacs to spread their spores into the air, whereas root-associated endo (internal to the root) or ecto (external) mycorrhizae ("fungus" + "root") form symbiotic relationships with living plants and reproduce from spores in sacs on the hyphae (web) at the roots. Without plants to host them, mycorrhizae tend to die off. The different types are also often vertically separated in soils. So you want both, and collecting above ground litter and below ground feeder roots can help spread the latter. Succession in forests has been shown to correlate with the interconnectedness of plants and so collecting fungal species that can interconnect plants at their roots or decompose material aboveground to feed them will aid succession. When a tree falls and is left to decompose it creates a food pathway for fungal hyphae to create super highways connecting plants. We can replicate this by leaving intact trunks or branches in contact with soil between plants.
      The white strings aka hyphae (webs) can also be formed by bacteria such as Actinomycetes.

  • @joenperkins2138
    @joenperkins2138 6 років тому

    OH so good to know that comfrey took a long time to get up from small cuttings. I ordered from your source and it's been three weeks and nothing. I thought it was a fail. Thanks so much. Love your videos. Time to get moving. We have collards that meted canning. Sending you and yours blessings.

    • @Brifromscratch
      @Brifromscratch  6 років тому +1

      Yes, when I got my first from March Creek I was sure they were all dead.

    • @Brifromscratch
      @Brifromscratch  6 років тому +1

      But every one came up.

    • @joenperkins2138
      @joenperkins2138 6 років тому

      Thanks. Good to know. Your pigs get out and I have hen that we can't keep in. She has done damage. I am ready to put her in a pot. Lol. Thanks for reply.

  • @kleineroteHex
    @kleineroteHex 6 років тому

    Once you have comfrey you will always have comfrey!!!!! I started with one plant..... now I have 8, one where I had a potted one to give away but it sat too long and the root dug through the pot and I gave the potted one away and got a new one -so much for less of it....