Modern farming practices are destroying vital soil ecologies, and our patch work solutions aren’t making things any better. Today we are joined by Dr. Elaine Ingham, a leading soil ecologist who has established the Soil Food Web School, a platform that teaches people how to optimize their growing operation and advocates the return to greener practices.
We discuss how we can repair the land using simple, natural, systems, and how in doing so we heal the planet by increasing carbon sequestration, depolluting water supply systems, catalyzing environmental justice and so much more.
Topics covered:
- Soil health before human influence
- Practical ways we can rebuild microbial populations for healthier soil
- Specialized relationships between soil fungi and plants
- Successions of ecosystem health from the soil to mature plants
- The adversaries of inorganic fertilizers
- Analyzing ratios of the fungal and bacterial needs to grow healthy plants
- Cultivating and sourcing biocomplete compost
- Industrial level compost production and soil remediation
- Carbon sequestration in soil health
Show notes:
Soil Food Web website: https://www.soilfoodweb.com/
Dr. Ingham’s published work on soil ecology: https://www.soilfoodweb.com/publications/
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