Elaine is one of the most important people/teachers in the world today. You really cannot argue how crucial her knowledge is, and how essential we enact her knowledge immediately.
@@FrankEdavidson But Elaine is helping to bring it to everyday gardeners, farmers and producers. Those that don't have the resources to go to those unis. How long has it been 'standard' for?
Dr Ingham is really great and so knowledgeable. My father was organic gardening in the 1970s. We used to go to a local farm and get cured horse and cow manure. Composting was always the key because we were gardening in red Georgia clay. He was raised in the country before chemicals. I've seen him grow huge tomatoes in pure clay.....with a weekly dose of kitchen scraps. He would grow lettuce in the edge of the sidewalk. Corn in very small spaces with fish scraps. Those rural folks know how to do it. No one needed soil samples to tell you what kind of soil you had. We've forgotten so much but I am so glad to see the permaculture culture. We can save the planet and feed everyone with these concepts.
maybe in about 80 years and after the government bans gardening or something, my elementary schools back in 2007-2012 or so still taught the original global warming theory (from the 80s-90s) that was disproven and replaced by climate change which is still being worked on and changed constantly to this day to the point where most of the modern talk about it is incorrect, this is why i promote decentralization and localization of schools (pod schooling, home schooling, etc), parents need to go back to teaching their kids instead of having the DMV... I mean "department of education" parent their children for them, especially now that you can get access to information like this which would have costed you thousands to ever get access to 20-30 years ago
This lady is a ROCKSTAR!!! What a terrific presentation, wish I'd had her as a teacher back when I was in school as I fumbled my way through inorganic, organic, gardening, and now pasture management in different climates. It all makes sense and now I feel that I have a real plan I can follow rather than trying this or trying that, but never quite understanding the whole symbiotic system. Thank you!!!
I'm always glued to the screen whenever she talks. This has got to be one of the most interesting permaculture subjects. Totally beyond mulching. I still mulch a lot but experimenting a bit with permanent covers and compost. Ajuga reptans and trifolium repens work well in my area and inbetween the crop rows. Glechoma hederacea is a bit high and climbs into low branching plants a bit but extremely fast growing. I haven't tried mixing them yet but i will soon. Norther Europe, zone 8, sea climate. I'm having trouble finding more. I like lamium too, i have 5 species of those, they are a bit high but they work great in the shade. Love creeping sedums in the really dry spots but i use those and the lamium mostly in my ornamental space. The really big problem i have is that my weeds are mostly grassy and i have a lot of couch-grass so i'm going to try adding a lot of browns next. My strawberries are in conifer chips. ahh friggin mazing. The only thing that really grows as a weed in there are oak seedlings the jay stuck in there. My rubus type things are all in a thick mat of leaf compost/horse manure. My ribes is in grass/leaf/sheep manure compost, they went from anemic looking twigs to healthy young fruiting bushes in 2 years from cuttings. My garlic does amazing in woodshavings with rabbit manure. It's a lot of fun trying to 'manufacture' specific soils. Thanks for my new hobby, Dr. Ingham.
+antonyjh1234 yes true. Sometimes you have to look through their manner of presentation to just absorb the information. There are quite a few people, especially in permaculture, i can't stand to listen to. They basically observed how nature works and made it into a more or less working production situation. Applauding that, of course! Permaculture is an awesomely cool thing, don't get me wrong, love it. Some people are very matter of factly like Gabe Brown for instance. and some act like they just invented the wheel, or worse, like little gods. Not here to diss anyone, so not naming them. By all means, be as you are. I'm not into the whole spiritual woowoo type of deal either, but to each their own. If i wasn't so deeply interested in the subject, i probably wouldn't care to listen to a lot of them. I'm getting better at putting my personal preference aside. Some people i found highly annoying but i now watch them to just listen to what they say. I just had to get over myself. I personally like Dr. Ingham. Very knowledgeable after 40 years of research, earned all her badges through hard work, though a tad bit pedantic. She is after all a teacher and a good one.
It is not condescending, it comes from the notion of letting the students think for them self and find the answer , sparking thought. However this doesn't works if you are asking something non of the students know. In the time she is done with the question and asking if any one knows she could have explained the whole thing in detail and give us 40 years of knowledge. When she is just telling it how it is she slam dunks it ,it is just messed up to filter that out. Now she knows her shit she shouldn't be asking anything she should be telling , further more in my observations students done worse with teachers who used the question sentence thing and most fall asleep because the answer is going to be given by the teacher any way as their job is to teach ppl stuff they dont know.
Dr. Elaine Ingham 'pedantic'? Doesn't that mean 'making a big deal of a little bit of knowledge'? That does not fit Dr. Ingham, in my observation. She does a pretty magnificent job of making a complex scientific subject accessible to those who slept through their biology classes.
Jefferdaughter It is what she does in this vid, now i for one aced biology so i dont have time for stupid kiddy talk for the dumb people. Why would stupid people failing biology need any of her knowledge it is not like they have the intellect to apply the knowledge she could provide in her lecture(which lazy stupid person watches or even attends lectures any way ?). Also kiddy talk holds back the development of a child. Now if it was tailored for the dumb , she should have kept her lecture shorter. Remember how kids fell asleep in class during question answer sentences, the dumb ones always lose interest the fastest. Keep it simple less is more, airy lose ground = good. Tight ground airless causes acid levels to rise and nutrients go to waist. Considering the lecture being for gardening enthusiast she should have put in more applicable knowledge.
The most stimulating lecture I have heard in a long time you are absolutely awesome. I always new it had to be in the soil. Strong roots strong plants. Thank you so much for what you do.
This presentation was the best I have seen in the past year. In an hour you get much information that connects other pieces of information that you already know but the connections are key to understand how an ecological system can be made to work optimally.
Innoculating large crop lands with beneficial bacteria, fungi, etc will be the key to food sustainability. Dr Ingraham needs to be listened to by the dept of agriculture and farmers everywherem
Thank you! I don't have space for a big compost pile but a worm bin fits. I've been applying homemade worm compost and my soil went from 5.5 ph to 7 from last summer until January with no lime or other ph changing supplements. This is the first time i have beautiful winter vegetables. no sign of any desease.Snails and slugs are eating leaf mulch instead of kale.Can't wait for this spring/summer season.
Ive seen my garden change from clay to soil in three years ! .....no joke .... Now my weed rocks ! With hugal beds and much more mulch this year im expecting better than last year ....give it a try
@@td2926 - Chop and drop. MULCH, mulch, mulch. Grasses cover crops are a fantastic helper. If you don't want to bother. Just chop and drop whatever weeds/grasses are there! Let it build up! The day farmers replace the plow, by the mower. We'll have a better Earth! ;-) Adding "imported" resources, do help speed up things. But it's really not an obligation!! This detail might surprise some. ;-)
There are farmers whos fields flood and stagnates. We installed air lines under the plants and pumped air into the soil. Their plants grew faster than in dry land! A hydro soil farm. Air is the key.
Denmark once was a bigger country. The people got pushed back into the marshlands which is currently most of modern day Denmark. They changed the unusable marshlands into the most fertile soil in Europe. Your system might work, but having to do that forever is just not sustainable. Of course you have to do it for now, but you should be working to where you don't have to one day. Even water weeds can help long term to build up soil. The surface water needs to be drained to a river and some what into the water table
Absolutely fantastic information. Straight to the point and easy to understand. Dr. Elaine Ingham - always a pleasure listen her presentations. Thank you Permaculture Voices for sharing :-)
Dr Elaine Ingham is one of the most important people to have ever lived. This was mind blowing. I am currently doing my BScAgric, and I WIIIISH I could be her apprentice, I crave to learn more about this!
It's a terrific presentation as always.. it takes a little repetition to sink in exactly how this works, it's hard for many of us to understand some concepts so exotic as being able to "weed" by changing the soil life and soil structure.
It’s funny because as I was listening to this, I was planting in some very anaerobic soil. I took a little extra effort to deeply broad fork and apply some compost I had. Thank you Diego and Dr. Ingham.
Thank you for sharing this. I think this is really good resource so will be sharing it. Especially like the fact that its free information for everyone. Again thank you
A college course in an hour presentation, where have you been all my life? I think I am in love with her Brain, is she single? lol. Thank God she came back to the light from the dark side of industrial farming and selfless to share her knowledge, Thank you.
This is really good to know that annual cover crops are going anaerobic. I'm surprised there is such a good result with them being reported even still. I like the idea of not having to get seed every year because that's not something sustainable on site. My question is though, how do you plant things like corn into a perennial cover crop? I thought perennial cover crops were understory cover crops for your food forest and to fill out swales while fixing nitrogen and attracting benefecials? Wouldn't the perennial cover crop swallow up your annual crops or grains? And would that kind of crop survive in nearly full sun? Are we just relying on the shade from the plants? I realize I'm dealing with grass and not perennial low growth cover crops at my place, but I find that when I chop grass back to plant corn, the corn definitely does not shade anything out. It's too skinny. I've tried 2x2 foot circles of corn in the middle, beans next to that, and squash on the outside with some sunflowers nearby.... the squash did not shade out the grass. I will say this year that none of my seeds grew well... I think because I ordered from New Mexico and we had a super wet year. If anyone would dialogue and share knowledge with me on the in practice version of this I would be grateful.
Elaine is a must have on any team that decides to terraform another planet. Her knowledge is highly respected. At that level of education, the tendency to speak in very technical terminology that most don't understand bc of the fact they chose another career path is high. The fact she has the ability to simplify the ideas into concepts that most can understands only demonstrates her complete mastery over the subject. Surprisingly, most Dr's don't possess this ability and as a result, aren't well known and come off as being boring and time consuming to watch ⌚.
Unbelievable how uniformed I am on organic 101 She really gets through to me I feel like I’m listening to Mother Nature telling me the secrets to success in the plant world .I’m a total geek on organics and could really learn a wealth of knowledge for #mothernature🙏🙏🙏🌱🌱🌱✌️🤙🏻
A few pictures of her experiments would have added tremendous value to this presentation. I would have liked to see a picture of the corn that grew 10 ears on on plant. Did I misunderstand? I would also have loved to see pictures of the soybeans thriving in the midst of established perennial cover crops. I am trying very hard to be respectful here.
we should all be farmers in one form or another, regenertive soil building farmers, not trying to force other farmers who arent as educated to our way of thinking. Were all stewards for a time, if farming is fun for you then you are on your right path.
I’m from Singapore.. living in “flats” a type of multi storey public housing blocks. We plant lovers grow the plants in pots along the corridor. Hence the way we have to manage the soil is most unique. The diameter of the pots vary from 4 inches to 12 inches. Anything bigger will cause obstruction along the corridors. How do we “nano” manage the soils in the pots. How do we promote microbial , fungi, bacterial growth in such small amounts of soil in pots.
I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Ingham and think that this is absolutely critical information. I grow everything that I grow organically and do my best to follow her guidance. But, to be honest, when I hear her talk about the necessity of the food web to keep plants alive, I always wonder about how anyone's house plants survive since I'm guessing that this web is seriously lacking in most containers.
Most houseplants don't really grow they mostly maintain. Also, the food web isn't entirely missing. Bacteria, fungi, nematodes, protozoa, and microarthropods are everywhere even when the potting mix is sterilized it can be re-inoculated through air and water; even chlorinated tap water has surviving microbial cysts which will "hatch" once in a more hospitable environment. Most houseplants are in loose potting soil (which is mostly organic matter), so the lack of earthworms doesn't do much harm as far as the aeration factors are concerned. Apart from these things, many people can't keep a houseplant alive and wonder why, others may accidentally incorporate methods that encourage food web development, such as setting the plants out in the rain or using rain water, and others again have houseplants such as bromeliads, airplane plants, cacti, etc. that have a very low requirement for maintenance.
Can ask what’s the most basic microscope that can show types of life in the soil? There’s a hand held portable usb type which say up to 220 magnification (celestron microdirect 1080p HD) Is this ok to buy for soil study/analysis?
Just tell them where the fertiliser's came from... It's rather sad story, around WW2... Even sadder story of what they used them for... Your a legend Doc... Thank you!!
I love the information but I have a question about practicality. How exactly does one "cut" a strip through densely growing perennial cover crops? Using a pick to break sod is back breaking work.
Great information about how the soil works, but scarce on specific things to do for solutions. Lot's of "you need to increase the fungal growth", but very little on HOW. I found it informative but extremely frustrating.
For details, check out Matt Powers new book, Soil. It's available for preorder on amazon and will be out soon. Matt and Elaine also teach a Soil course, if you're really into this.
Good and bad fungi exists in soil already Sam. Bad fungi and bacteria makes the soil smell a bit moldy and decaying. Beneficial fungi is Called -mycorrhizal- fungi and lives around the Root systems of healthy plants and in the topsoil. Good fungi gets carbohydrates from the Root system, and in turn it makes nutrients available for the plant. You can either take a sample of (Good) soil from your garden or Nature for free because it Will contain Good fungi, or buy a starter pack of *mycorrhiza* fungi online that you add in the water once when watering to get it started. Maintaining Good, aerobic soil conditions (aeration) by having good soil structure (coarser, bigger soil particles), not overwatering (letting the soil dry out before watering again), not over fertilising, having nutritious soil etc. will tilt the conditions in favour of the good fungi and it will replicate and colonize the soil on it's own. And with the right conditions, the good fungi colonizes the Root systems on it's own, and the bad fungi Will be out-competed, similar to the Good bacteria vs bad bacteria in our digestive tract. (If you have ever seen White mold growing on the soil surface of your Potted house plants after watering too much, you understand that correct managing/practises with watering is important to set the right growing conditions, or the balance Will be tilted in favour of the bad, anaerobic fungi.) Different plants have some symbiotic relations with different types of fungi though. There are some specific fungi that has evolved in symbios with certain plants, and there's also some universal types (vegetables and trees often have different types of fungi for example.) Good luck,
The method is not exact, because it's extremely difficult to know exactly how to grow fungi/bacteria. We can't do it in lab environments. The way to do it is make compost, use a microscope to see if you have the right organisms. If so, extract out the biology of the compost, and spray that onto your fields. If not, figure out how to make better compost (can find other resources for this).
As a home gardener, I till in my garden leaves/grass clippings/peat/manure in the fall. I have had issues with the plants next year have yellow leaves bc of a lack of nitrogen. After adding organic chicken manure the leaves recover and grow fine, Why does this happen? Where does the nitrogen go over the winter?
Don't till first of all. Leave organic material on the surface. Then they won't tie up the nitrogen. yellow-lack of nitrogen. Or you could pee on them.
It’s rare that people have this type of undisputable authority that comes from having studied something to such extend that you have reached the point of absolute knowledge in your field. Not a single question mark, no hypothesis, not a phenomenon that couldn‘t be explained. Pretty amazing to see her talk
Woooo great video! But I can't understand a thing. Why we have to plant understory plants to cover? Why can't use weeds which grow naturally in our environment?
Because weeds only grow in disturbed soils which lack the fungal biology required for healthy food crops mostly because such soils are heavily bacterial and favor the conversion of nitrogen compounds to nitrate which weeds are most efficient at absorbing.
This is very intriguing to me. I’ll cut right to the chase. I spoke to a guy north of Boone Iowa this week that had corn making 270 bushels an acre based on dry weight and 61# test weight. I have problems thinking you could ever achieve that without any added nitrogen other than what was generated by soil microorganisms. Any thoughts? What types of crops are they specializing in?
Crop plants maintain a "rhizosphere", or a concentrated area of microbial activity close to the root. The rhizosphere is the most active part of the soil ecosystem because it is where the most readily available food is, and where peak nutrient and water cycling occurs. Microbial food is exuded by crop roots to attract and feed microbes that in turn provide nutrients (and other compounds) to the plant at the root-soil interface where the plants can take them up. Since living roots provide the easiest source of food for soil microbes, growing long lived roots that feed the foundation species of the soil food web as much as possible during the growing season should be a goal of farmers seeking a productive and profitable crop. Roots associated with SWRT membranes have been shown to last all season long, contributing greatly to the improvement of soil quality because they have the nutrients and moisture they need.
So how do you change a field of weeds to perennials? It looks to me like cover crops won't win against established weeds. Would it be good to do stale seed bed like Curtis Stone does? That is mow the weeds, shallow till (2 inches max), tarp for a few months, then open and let the weeds germinate and finally flame the weeds?
Elaine is one of the most important people/teachers in the world today. You really cannot argue how crucial her knowledge is, and how essential we enact her knowledge immediately.
I AGREE! GOD BLESS ELAINE!
She's filling in the gaps of knowledge that were absent from the first farmers in Mesopotamia, all the way to present.
This is standard soil ecology as taught and researched at unis.
@@FrankEdavidson But Elaine is helping to bring it to everyday gardeners, farmers and producers. Those that don't have the resources to go to those unis. How long has it been 'standard' for?
@@mclarenstables hahaha
Dr Ingham is really great and so knowledgeable.
My father was organic gardening in the 1970s. We used to go to a local farm and get cured horse and cow manure.
Composting was always the key because we were gardening in red Georgia clay. He was raised in the country before chemicals.
I've seen him grow huge tomatoes in pure clay.....with a weekly dose of kitchen scraps. He would grow lettuce in the edge of the sidewalk. Corn in very small spaces with fish scraps.
Those rural folks know how to do it. No one needed soil samples to tell you what kind of soil you had.
We've forgotten so much but I am so glad to see the permaculture culture. We can save the planet and feed everyone with these concepts.
Permaculture / soil food web
- This needs to be taught in schools across the planet !!!
YES
maybe in about 80 years and after the government bans gardening or something, my elementary schools back in 2007-2012 or so still taught the original global warming theory (from the 80s-90s) that was disproven and replaced by climate change which is still being worked on and changed constantly to this day to the point where most of the modern talk about it is incorrect, this is why i promote decentralization and localization of schools (pod schooling, home schooling, etc), parents need to go back to teaching their kids instead of having the DMV... I mean "department of education" parent their children for them, especially now that you can get access to information like this which would have costed you thousands to ever get access to 20-30 years ago
Wonder how Uncle Monsanto will feel about having his strangle hold being loosened…
This lady is a ROCKSTAR!!! What a terrific presentation, wish I'd had her as a teacher back when I was in school as I fumbled my way through inorganic, organic, gardening, and now pasture management in different climates. It all makes sense and now I feel that I have a real plan I can follow rather than trying this or trying that, but never quite understanding the whole symbiotic system. Thank you!!!
I'm always glued to the screen whenever she talks. This has got to be one of the most interesting permaculture subjects. Totally beyond mulching. I still mulch a lot but experimenting a bit with permanent covers and compost. Ajuga reptans and trifolium repens work well in my area and inbetween the crop rows. Glechoma hederacea is a bit high and climbs into low branching plants a bit but extremely fast growing. I haven't tried mixing them yet but i will soon. Norther Europe, zone 8, sea climate. I'm having trouble finding more. I like lamium too, i have 5 species of those, they are a bit high but they work great in the shade. Love creeping sedums in the really dry spots but i use those and the lamium mostly in my ornamental space. The really big problem i have is that my weeds are mostly grassy and i have a lot of couch-grass so i'm going to try adding a lot of browns next. My strawberries are in conifer chips. ahh friggin mazing. The only thing that really grows as a weed in there are oak seedlings the jay stuck in there. My rubus type things are all in a thick mat of leaf compost/horse manure. My ribes is in grass/leaf/sheep manure compost, they went from anemic looking twigs to healthy young fruiting bushes in 2 years from cuttings. My garlic does amazing in woodshavings with rabbit manure. It's a lot of fun trying to 'manufacture' specific soils. Thanks for my new hobby, Dr. Ingham.
+antonyjh1234 yes true. Sometimes you have to look through their manner of presentation to just absorb the information. There are quite a few people, especially in permaculture, i can't stand to listen to. They basically observed how nature works and made it into a more or less working production situation. Applauding that, of course! Permaculture is an awesomely cool thing, don't get me wrong, love it. Some people are very matter of factly like Gabe Brown for instance. and some act like they just invented the wheel, or worse, like little gods. Not here to diss anyone, so not naming them. By all means, be as you are. I'm not into the whole spiritual woowoo type of deal either, but to each their own. If i wasn't so deeply interested in the subject, i probably wouldn't care to listen to a lot of them. I'm getting better at putting my personal preference aside. Some people i found highly annoying but i now watch them to just listen to what they say. I just had to get over myself. I personally like Dr. Ingham. Very knowledgeable after 40 years of research, earned all her badges through hard work, though a tad bit pedantic. She is after all a teacher and a good one.
It is not condescending, it comes from the notion of letting the students think for them self and find the answer , sparking thought.
However this doesn't works if you are asking something non of the students know.
In the time she is done with the question and asking if any one knows she could have explained the whole thing in detail and give us 40 years of knowledge.
When she is just telling it how it is she slam dunks it ,it is just messed up to filter that out.
Now she knows her shit she shouldn't be asking anything she should be telling , further more in my observations students done worse with teachers who used the question sentence thing and most fall asleep because the answer is going to be given by the teacher any way as their job is to teach ppl stuff they dont know.
Dr. Elaine Ingham 'pedantic'? Doesn't that mean 'making a big deal of a little bit of knowledge'? That does not fit Dr. Ingham, in my observation. She does a pretty magnificent job of making a complex scientific subject accessible to those who slept through their biology classes.
Jefferdaughter It is what she does in this vid, now i for one aced biology so i dont have time for stupid kiddy talk for the dumb people.
Why would stupid people failing biology need any of her knowledge it is not like they have the intellect to apply the knowledge she could provide in her lecture(which lazy stupid person watches or even attends lectures any way ?).
Also kiddy talk holds back the development of a child.
Now if it was tailored for the dumb , she should have kept her lecture shorter.
Remember how kids fell asleep in class during question answer sentences, the dumb ones always lose interest the fastest.
Keep it simple less is more, airy lose ground = good.
Tight ground airless causes acid levels to rise and nutrients go to waist.
Considering the lecture being for gardening enthusiast she should have put in more applicable knowledge.
Always on the prowl to kick some drama, arncha. Good grief.
I so glad I have found Dr. Ingham. This stuff is packed with information. Thank you for making information available to everyone.
I've watched this before but Elaine's breakdown of the soil food web is really important and I feel blessed to watched this again.
I've learned a lot more about earth from watching this video. Thank you!
A dynamic, amazing speaker who can make scientific concepts accessible to all. So informative.
Holy Cow! So this is how our garden grows! A truly organic method. Thanks for the info.
The most stimulating lecture I have heard in a long time you are absolutely awesome. I always new it had to be in the soil. Strong roots strong plants. Thank you so much for what you do.
This is mindblowing...We need to spread organic horticulture everywhere!
This presentation was the best I have seen in the past year. In an hour you get much information that connects other pieces of information that you already know but the connections are key to understand how an ecological system can be made to work optimally.
One of the best lecturers i've ever listened to
Innoculating large crop lands with beneficial bacteria, fungi, etc will be the key to food sustainability. Dr Ingraham needs to be listened to by the dept of agriculture and farmers everywherem
Thank you Elaine for your commitment to natural systems growing and sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for all the great information Dr Ingham!
Thank you! I don't have space for a big compost pile but a worm bin fits. I've been applying homemade worm compost and my soil went from 5.5 ph to 7 from last summer until January with no lime or other ph changing supplements. This is the first time i have beautiful winter vegetables. no sign of any desease.Snails and slugs are eating leaf mulch instead of kale.Can't wait for this spring/summer season.
Ingham speaks for the soil.
And it has never sounded so sweet until now.
Ive seen my garden change from clay to soil in three years ! .....no joke .... Now my weed rocks ! With hugal beds and much more mulch this year im expecting better than last year ....give it a try
Could you share some of the things you’ve done to build soil?
@@td2926 - Chop and drop. MULCH, mulch, mulch. Grasses cover crops are a fantastic helper. If you don't want to bother.
Just chop and drop whatever weeds/grasses are there! Let it build up!
The day farmers replace the plow, by the mower. We'll have a better Earth! ;-)
Adding "imported" resources, do help speed up things. But it's really not an obligation!! This detail might surprise some. ;-)
@@crpth1 Thank you for sharing! Could you please elaborate on “imported resources”?
There are farmers whos fields flood and stagnates. We installed air lines under the plants and pumped air into the soil. Their plants grew faster than in dry land! A hydro soil farm. Air is the key.
Denmark once was a bigger country. The people got pushed back into the marshlands which is currently most of modern day Denmark. They changed the unusable marshlands into the most fertile soil in Europe. Your system might work, but having to do that forever is just not sustainable. Of course you have to do it for now, but you should be working to where you don't have to one day. Even water weeds can help long term to build up soil. The surface water needs to be drained to a river and some what into the water table
Absolutely fantastic information. Straight to the point and easy to understand. Dr. Elaine Ingham - always a pleasure listen her presentations. Thank you Permaculture Voices for sharing :-)
Hear Hear!
I really miss a book (or several) written by Elaine. I think there are a lot more to learn from Elaine, beside this wonderful presentation.
best video on soil I've seen. thanks Diego
Dr Elaine Ingham is one of the most important people to have ever lived. This was mind blowing. I am currently doing my BScAgric, and I WIIIISH I could be her apprentice, I crave to learn more about this!
This is actually genius. Thank you so much for sharing.
🌱I feel very lucky to have found this lecture. Thank you so much. I’ve a lot of question and studying to do. Life is good 🌱
It's a terrific presentation as always.. it takes a little repetition to sink in exactly how this works, it's hard for many of us to understand some concepts so exotic as being able to "weed" by changing the soil life and soil structure.
It’s funny because as I was listening to this, I was planting in some very anaerobic soil. I took a little extra effort to deeply broad fork and apply some compost I had. Thank you Diego and Dr. Ingham.
Fantastic video, thank you Elaine. More healthy soil and less lifeless dirt that can barely hang on to any resemblance of life.
Thank you for sharing this. I think this is really good resource so will be sharing it. Especially like the fact that its free information for everyone. Again thank you
Thanks to wide open our eyes and for passing thru these prime information
Thank you very much for making this video available!
This is probably the most valuable video I've ever seen. Thank you so much!
I just wanted to say I really like this lady! I love her casual demeanor
Thank you Elaine for sharing your knowledge with us...I am trying to learn all about soil
A college course in an hour presentation, where have you been all my life? I think I am in love with her Brain, is she single? lol.
Thank God she came back to the light from the dark side of industrial farming and selfless to share her knowledge, Thank you.
This is really good to know that annual cover crops are going anaerobic. I'm surprised there is such a good result with them being reported even still. I like the idea of not having to get seed every year because that's not something sustainable on site. My question is though, how do you plant things like corn into a perennial cover crop? I thought perennial cover crops were understory cover crops for your food forest and to fill out swales while fixing nitrogen and attracting benefecials? Wouldn't the perennial cover crop swallow up your annual crops or grains? And would that kind of crop survive in nearly full sun? Are we just relying on the shade from the plants? I realize I'm dealing with grass and not perennial low growth cover crops at my place, but I find that when I chop grass back to plant corn, the corn definitely does not shade anything out. It's too skinny. I've tried 2x2 foot circles of corn in the middle, beans next to that, and squash on the outside with some sunflowers nearby.... the squash did not shade out the grass. I will say this year that none of my seeds grew well... I think because I ordered from New Mexico and we had a super wet year. If anyone would dialogue and share knowledge with me on the in practice version of this I would be grateful.
Elaine is a must have on any team that decides to terraform another planet. Her knowledge is highly respected. At that level of education, the tendency to speak in very technical terminology that most don't understand bc of the fact they chose another career path is high. The fact she has the ability to simplify the ideas into concepts that most can understands only demonstrates her complete mastery over the subject. Surprisingly, most Dr's don't possess this ability and as a result, aren't well known and come off as being boring and time consuming to watch ⌚.
We need to terraform this one.
Thank you and bless you for this content. Love from South Afrika
They need to start teaching the fundamentals of soil in elementary school. Having this knowledge is how we survive as a species.
Unbelievable how uniformed I am on organic 101 She really gets through to me I feel like I’m listening to Mother Nature telling me the secrets to success in the plant world .I’m a total geek on organics and could really learn a wealth of knowledge for #mothernature🙏🙏🙏🌱🌱🌱✌️🤙🏻
Great lecture! Full of vital information! ("USA is pesticide central" That's for sure!)
Awesome. As a casual observer I've always wondered why the "weeds" that dominate our region change from year to year.
Dr, wonderful scientific explanation and really fruitful after go through your session. Thanks for your efforts.
Dr ching
A few pictures of her experiments would have added tremendous value to this presentation. I would have liked to see a picture of the corn that grew 10 ears on on plant. Did I misunderstand?
I would also have loved to see pictures of the soybeans thriving in the midst of established perennial cover crops.
I am trying very hard to be respectful here.
we should all be farmers in one form or another, regenertive soil building farmers, not trying to force other farmers who arent as educated to our way of thinking. Were all stewards for a time, if farming is fun for you then you are on your right path.
I’m falling in love with farming growing anything we can eat and now I’m interested in trees and flowers and random things
so thankful for the layman term slideshow in the background
Thank soooo much for this upload!!!!
A. Ma. Zing!!!! Wow, mind-blowing, thank you sooooo much vor uploading this!
same here. I wish they translate this in all the languages of the world. Now I can move to any soil and get a garden that will virtually amaze anyone
I love this, watched sooooi many times....so wonderful.....creating life...thank you x million....glenn
has anyone got the slides from this presentation? the link in the description is not working anymore...
Thank you for sharing your work , very interesting ....❤👍🏼🙂🌱🍃
Anyone have the website she talked about at the end listing the perennial crops per region?
I’m from Singapore.. living in “flats” a type of multi storey public housing blocks. We plant lovers grow the plants in pots along the corridor. Hence the way we have to manage the soil is most unique.
The diameter of the pots vary from 4 inches to 12 inches. Anything bigger will cause obstruction along the corridors.
How do we “nano” manage the soils in the pots. How do we promote microbial , fungi, bacterial growth in such small amounts of soil in pots.
Superb explanation,she had tremendous knowledge
I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Ingham and think that this is absolutely critical information. I grow everything that I grow organically and do my best to follow her guidance. But, to be honest, when I hear her talk about the necessity of the food web to keep plants alive, I always wonder about how anyone's house plants survive since I'm guessing that this web is seriously lacking in most containers.
Most houseplants don't really grow they mostly maintain. Also, the food web isn't entirely missing. Bacteria, fungi, nematodes, protozoa, and microarthropods are everywhere even when the potting mix is sterilized it can be re-inoculated through air and water; even chlorinated tap water has surviving microbial cysts which will "hatch" once in a more hospitable environment. Most houseplants are in loose potting soil (which is mostly organic matter), so the lack of earthworms doesn't do much harm as far as the aeration factors are concerned. Apart from these things, many people can't keep a houseplant alive and wonder why, others may accidentally incorporate methods that encourage food web development, such as setting the plants out in the rain or using rain water, and others again have houseplants such as bromeliads, airplane plants, cacti, etc. that have a very low requirement for maintenance.
houseplants grow in dead soils but would thrive is a living soil...
Whats Up Josh!
Years ago I turned a piece of sand in Albuquerque into great soil just by mulching it with lawn clippings.
What are the steps to fix Sandi soil
And hot temperature or were can I find
That info
I love how women are soo able to instruct with enthusiasm and cause me to love the subject.
Do you think we should be applying humic acid to lawns??
Thank you. Awesome stuff 👴✌️️😊.
Wish I could see her garden and what she put into making her soil.
Can ask what’s the most basic microscope that can show types of life in the soil?
There’s a hand held portable usb type which say up to 220 magnification (celestron microdirect 1080p HD) Is this ok to buy for soil study/analysis?
Great collection of very important information on your channel. Thank you very much. Subscribed.
Where can I get that list. Need to develop our 25 acres A1 zoned land. Healthy
Thank you very much indeed for this information of Paramount
importance.
Just tell them where the fertiliser's came from... It's rather sad story, around WW2... Even sadder story of what they used them for... Your a legend Doc... Thank you!!
Does adding dark molasses to the soil help replenish the soil for the microbes?
A scientist that is due respect. A rarity. I would love a list of the perennial under-story species.
+Maisegen Thank you very much.
Please, that list would be awesome...
Does anyone have a list of understory plants she listed at the end?
Can somebody arrange for the this presentation's slide show ? Kindly reply me with the link.
I love the information but I have a question about practicality. How exactly does one "cut" a strip through densely growing perennial cover crops? Using a pick to break sod is back breaking work.
Hook a “ripper” up to a tractor
@@thomaschambers5711 any other suggestions that don't cost thousands of dollars?
@@nephilimPB
No that was it lol
She is a great teacher.
what a great presentation! thank you :)
does anybody have those lists online somewhere? or do I have to wait for the book I preordered?
could u kindly write down the author and title book where is the fungi bacteria ratio table for crops? I can get it right. thanks!
I believe its "regenerative soil" by matt powers.
And what is this said website mentioned?
If mosquitos lay eggs ina ferment would that mean its anearobic?
Another great video the more I see the more I take in
Great information about how the soil works, but scarce on specific things to do for solutions. Lot's of "you need to increase the fungal growth", but very little on HOW. I found it informative but extremely frustrating.
Send her 4000 dollars she claim to tell all heyhey
For details, check out Matt Powers new book, Soil. It's available for preorder on amazon and will be out soon. Matt and Elaine also teach a Soil course, if you're really into this.
Good and bad fungi exists in soil already Sam. Bad fungi and bacteria makes the soil smell a bit moldy and decaying. Beneficial fungi is Called -mycorrhizal- fungi and lives around the Root systems of healthy plants and in the topsoil. Good fungi gets carbohydrates from the Root system, and in turn it makes nutrients available for the plant.
You can either take a sample of (Good) soil from your garden or Nature for free because it Will contain Good fungi, or buy a starter pack of *mycorrhiza* fungi online that you add in the water once when watering to get it started.
Maintaining Good, aerobic soil conditions (aeration) by having good soil structure (coarser, bigger soil particles), not overwatering (letting the soil dry out before watering again), not over fertilising, having nutritious soil etc. will tilt the conditions in favour of the good fungi and it will replicate and colonize the soil on it's own. And with the right conditions, the good fungi colonizes the Root systems on it's own, and the bad fungi Will be out-competed, similar to the Good bacteria vs bad bacteria in our digestive tract.
(If you have ever seen White mold growing on the soil surface of your Potted house plants after watering too much, you understand that correct managing/practises with watering is important to set the right growing conditions, or the balance Will be tilted in favour of the bad, anaerobic fungi.)
Different plants have some symbiotic relations with different types of fungi though. There are some specific fungi that has evolved in symbios with certain plants, and there's also some universal types (vegetables and trees often have different types of fungi for example.)
Good luck,
The method is not exact, because it's extremely difficult to know exactly how to grow fungi/bacteria. We can't do it in lab environments. The way to do it is make compost, use a microscope to see if you have the right organisms. If so, extract out the biology of the compost, and spray that onto your fields. If not, figure out how to make better compost (can find other resources for this).
To add fungi, add fungal foods: wood, organic material that is harder to digest-evergreen leaves, stems of plants.
As a home gardener, I till in my garden leaves/grass clippings/peat/manure in the fall. I have had issues with the plants next year have yellow leaves bc of a lack of nitrogen. After adding organic chicken manure the leaves recover and grow fine, Why does this happen? Where does the nitrogen go over the winter?
Don't till first of all. Leave organic material on the surface. Then they won't tie up the nitrogen. yellow-lack of nitrogen. Or you could pee on them.
@@johns7713 I have read that b4, but where does the nitrogen go? Is it used to decompose the organic matter I tilled in?
@@justray510 Yes. If you leave it on the surface, it will be brought down by the worms when it is ready.
How do house plants survive and is hardening off introducing these microbial life?
Hey wonderful program need help on my water system is producing chlorine not good for my compost bin what can be done
Rainwater.
It’s rare that people have this type of undisputable authority that comes from having studied something to such extend that you have reached the point of absolute knowledge in your field. Not a single question mark, no hypothesis, not a phenomenon that couldn‘t be explained. Pretty amazing to see her talk
Are the slides available?
She's absolutely fantastic!
If anaerobic is a problem how does jms work?
Woooo great video! But I can't understand a thing. Why we have to plant understory plants to cover? Why can't use weeds which grow naturally in our environment?
Because weeds only grow in disturbed soils which lack the fungal biology required for healthy food crops mostly because such soils are heavily bacterial and favor the conversion of nitrogen compounds to nitrate which weeds are most efficient at absorbing.
Any comments on the pros and cons of landscaping fabric? Never use? Use sometimes? only in walkways?
Never seen fabric well walking through an old growth forest have you?
Only under rocks on walkways
1:04:01 Uuuuggghhhh Dr Elaine telling it like it is!!!
This is very intriguing to me. I’ll cut right to the chase. I spoke to a guy north of Boone Iowa this week that had corn making 270 bushels an acre based on dry weight and 61# test weight. I have problems thinking you could ever achieve that without any added nitrogen other than what was generated by soil microorganisms. Any thoughts? What types of crops are they specializing in?
Bailey, have you heard of the Save Soil movement before? Since you are intrigued by this topic, it could really interest you also🌎🌍🌏
She reminds me of some of my best professors back in college.
Crop plants maintain a "rhizosphere", or a concentrated area of microbial activity close to the root. The rhizosphere is the most active part of the soil ecosystem because it is where the most readily available food is, and where peak nutrient and water cycling occurs. Microbial food is exuded by crop roots to attract and feed microbes that in turn provide nutrients (and other compounds) to the plant at the root-soil interface where the plants can take them up. Since living roots provide the easiest source of food for soil microbes, growing long lived roots that feed the foundation species of the soil food web as much as possible during the growing season should be a goal of farmers seeking a productive and profitable crop.
Roots associated with SWRT membranes have been shown to last all season long, contributing greatly to the improvement of soil quality because they have the nutrients and moisture they need.
She's sooo smart!!! (and looks a little she could be like Hawkeye's sister--M*A*S*H)
And I hear ya Ian Bell below!!! Absolutely!
Can someone recommend a microscope that I can purchase on Amazon.
Absolutely fascinating!!
So how do you change a field of weeds to perennials? It looks to me like cover crops won't win against established weeds. Would it be good to do stale seed bed like Curtis Stone does? That is mow the weeds, shallow till (2 inches max), tarp for a few months, then open and let the weeds germinate and finally flame the weeds?
Im no farmer but I think you would roller-crimp the weeds. Then you would have armor on the soil. Then you can plant what you want . Cheers.
Excellent video! :)
What are some books I can get on on this?
Jeff Lowenfelds Teaming with microbes would be a great place to start :)
Hi, Exellent video ! We really need it translate in French and others language ... how can we do it ??? Thanks for your job !!!