Jason Bradford: “A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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What's the Difference Between Soil and Dirt?
There's a tremendous difference between a live healthy soil and something that is sterile, which might be the dirt or somewhere in between because you're farming it. A lot of our practices disturb the soil and end up making dirt. So presumably if you had all the minerals that you wanted, plenty of NPK, but you didn't have those billions of little organisms in there, your yields would be much lower. Well, that's the tricky thing. We are basically, you can have what's called hydroponics,. You heard of that where plants are rooted into their own water? And they're giving this solution that's perfect mineral balance.
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