Herbicides that bind important elements and reduce uptake in plants are an attack on human and plant health. I know a large scale farm that uses the well known black soft drink instead (using big-pack-powder) - it does work and is also cheaper. Similar experience is reported from India. The main components of that addictive soft drink are sugar and phosphoric acid. Dirt cheap stuff - sugars feed soil life and phosphate can be beneficial in a humus rich adsorptive linving soil. Not polluting groundwater and people.

I would request that you post on Nostr. I can easily tip and disseminate the regenerative content. There is definitely an appetite for this content there. Decentralized, freedom loving community.

Beautiful story of God’s grace on and through a humble and gifted servant. Thanks so much to you both!

I BS degreed in food chemisty usn discharged1977...currently wanna farm regenerative organicly. Got dryland farm dirt.... attempting organic methods on 80 A. Wanna rotate and sequester and harvest a bumper organic/crop. Currently seems difficult getting results using organic regenerative methodology...Dennis

We are havi g fu n here in ks ...Dennis

Great inspiration for many farmers, Corvin, thank you! Local partnerships, mutually beneficial and more fun. There should be more people working in the rural as John points out - those can be customers to each others, too. This fits exactly to my own work towards clustering market gardens, allow me a plug: the book "Garden Communities" by Andrew Toth and myself, Ralt Otterpohl (lots on Regenerative AG in my YT channel: search NEXUS lectures). Love aea, John.

The soil, animal, human health topic would be a great interview series.

The final part of this conversation provides a sobering overview of where modern agriculture in the US and many other similar developed countries has got to. The 'big forgetting' has distilled the fate of food production, the environment and human health into the hands of a relative few who are driving a modern financial juggernaut model that's focused purely on fiscal efficiency. The net result is that we've cleared a whole load of people out of agriculture, increasingly lost contact with a balanced biological cycle of life, disenfranchised the many that used to understand it, turned food in a industrialized commodities and made ourselves unhealthier.

Excellent discussion as usual! BTW: One can find organic chickpeas and make your own hummus!

57 and reignighted to life feeling as excited and wonderstruck as i was at 17... beautiful insights into the profundity of nature.

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Great conversation! Thanks Alpha and John for your valuable work.

Thanks for remembering the beaver no river ever ran free.

This is a great interview! Thanks, John and Frank!

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What rate of fulvic acid are you applying at to push sodium, will this work on dry land farming, applying to the soil, and tilling it in before planting or through a strip till operation in the fall or spring.

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This is one of the best interviews John Kempf has had, digging deep to issues we care about, and explaining the why rather than just the what. Thank you to John and Frank!

Question - we fill a 55-gallon drum with well water which has a pH of approximately 7.8. we then add 10 cups of leonardite and we stir this solution several times a day for approximately 2 days and we come out with a solution that is 5.5 pH. what would you call this?

Can filter out the glyphosate from the water supply?

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that situation in Florida is really really really sad. as an industry, it seems like maybe they have themselves ingested the glyphosate - shown the way with great results and yet - maybe it is addiction, i mean, if you bought a pack of cigarettes, you tell yourself you are going to quit after the pack but that doesn't work. difficult to get rid of bad habits. only way we are told is to get into a good habit...

how does one apply the glyphosate only to the plant? can't be done can it? so there will be chelation in the soil, right? this could expose me as some ignoramus but we confront our devils...blessings

Well, so many questions. Should we consume fulvic acid to reduce the glyphosate we consume or are drinking? Thank you for the interview. I hope you get millions of shares. Job well done.

What is the name of the book they both said at the same time? 20:00

I no longer buy orange juice, it does not taste like oranges are supposed to. This is so sad, thank you both.

Looking forward to hearing the RFK interview!

Regarding the depletion of essential minerals, either by leaching or plant uptake, is there a resource available that might answer to this? Eg: type of crop and intensity, a graph that might show natural depletion over time with different circumstances. My crystal ball needs an upgrade, obviously! Thank you for the very enlightening talk!

I'm a huge fan of Kempf's work. I've learned a great deal listening to his wonderful, far-reaching interviews. I was interested to hear more about his take on structural reform, especially in regard to how his perspective might differ from the author's. He briefly presents his deregulatory position. I understand that he is advocating for---with Jeffersonian-Yeoman vision---increased market access for small and mid-size producers, but I have to wonder: How would Kempf approach playing on the same field as some of the characters outlined in The Slaughter Barons chapter of Frerick's book? It strikes me that elements of the laissez-faire, deregulatory approach he suggests (coupled with the capture of what regulation remains) are indeed what enabled the non-competitive behavior and aggressive consolidation that Frerick has so thoroughly documented.

Excellent discussion. Much appreciated. John, I think its time for another comprehensive review of the "plant health nutrition pyramid". It is an amazing thought paradigm and i hope you'll showcase it more. Thank you.

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I'm a proponent of long ponds. Follow an elevation contour with a 6 meter wide pond as long as possible. Then go downhill 2 meters and do it again. This way you'll maximise water/land interface. These edges have the land feeding the water and the water feeding the land. The effect is multiplied. Slowing the water's path downhill with these long ponds, at scale, will eventually recharge aquifers, increase aquatic protein production, increase terrestrial protein production, moderate temperatures (warmer winters, cooler summers) and slow, stop, and eventually reverse sea level rise. Placing housing and other infrastructure on floating structures on long ponds also has the result of no impact on productivity, as floating housing often serves as shelter for the creatures that live in the water beneath the structures. Housing no longer reduces valuable agricultural/forest land. Properly managed aquaculture in the long ponds will produce multiple quantities of food compared to terrestrial production. Food, fuel, medicines and fibre will explode in abundance on terrain that's carved up with long ponds. Water availability will increase substantially. Each raindrop will eventually reach the ocean as it does now, but it may take a century instead of a few days. Mini water cycles where trees and plants transpire providing moisture for downwind rains can make the water flow uphill in many cases. Just start carving long ponds everywhere you can. Apply permaculture practices to the modified landform. We should be able to feed 50 billion people if this is done with enough permaculture design.

Prairie dogs bring rain by digging "dust pumps" that send the dust into the atmosphere which is similar to cloud seeding. That's how rain dances work. Vigorous dances add more dust into the air which eventually does the same thing.

I have never understood that saying "if i have heard it once, i have heard it (x) number of times" - - do you not know if you heard it once? or is this a lawyer thing, where you can later say, well, i never heard it once. humm??

Quantum biology would be a great funk fusion band name. Been thinking a lot about quantum entanglement and biology since John mentioned mycorrhizal communication in Oregon that occurs faster than the speed of light. There is so much we don't know. How exciting, thanks for all the work that you do.

I always perk up when I hear about Dr. Carey Reams or Betsy Ross! My personal feeling is that not enough of their findings are publicly available, and I love when others tell their story. I had hoped to meet Mrs. Ross at some point, as I am a fellow Texan. Was very sad to hear of her passing. I actually remember a little clip of Betsy Ross in a prairie area talking about the fungal to bacteria ratio being high, not like the ratio that we'd been told to expect, and I'd always wondered if she was speaking against Dr. Ingham's idea. Nicole Masters also just did a presentation for Dr. Ingham's channel in which she politely mentions having a much higher fungal soil on one of her recent project sites. -Katherine

As the head of a large public garden in England I have to say there is not many pleasures that beat kneeling down to work in the warm soil in the summer time. The apostle Paul said it was good for a man to work with his hands and to get to do what i do and get well paid is a gift from above

Well dang now I feel obligated to actually read “Gels, cells and the engines of life”. Bought it when you interviewed the author but haven’t had time to actually read it yet. Great interview!!!!

Great work as always John!

"Plant the rain"- Brad Lancaster talks about this, his book 'Raibwatet Harvesting For Dry lands And Beyond' is about permaculture type principles applied in the desert using native plants and encouraging to start where you are- even in urban landscapes. He learned from an African farmer named Zephaniah Phiri, who learned how to slow and hold water on 1/4 acre of eroded sloped desert land with no job and grew his own food to feed his family.

There is a grower in the Fraser Valley, BC, Canada, Dan at “The Local Harvest”, who has been doing no till organic agriculture for 7-8yrs. His produce might be what you are looking for.

You had me at lignocellulosic.

Two geniuses trading success stories. PRICELESS! Thank you both so much.

There are doctors now who are claiming that eating plants is not optimal for humans and they have results and data to back it up. I understand that plants have nutrition, but in my years of regen studies, I am plagued by this one paradox - If a healthy plant is one that can best protect itself from predators (which includes humans), then how can they be part of a healthy human diet? For example, oxalates and sugar (Brix) in most fruits and vegetables, etc. I am sure there are many scientific explanations, but I have never seen this question asked by anyone but me - and I have never been provided with an answer. I am willing to play the role of the ignorant one in order to learn the truth. Thanks. Love your podcasts.

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Hello, Thank you for all the information you are making more readily available! I have a question regarding covercropping. While I understand that it is a technique used in between main crops. Therefore, letting covercrops go to seed, or using perennials is not typically the intent; however, it seems to me that purchasing seed every year, or whenever someone's covercrop cycle may be, would get expensive. I also understand that the money spent would be returned either in a monetary covercrop, or in nutrients, microorganisms, or mineral availability for future seasons; however I am curious if there is anyone who intentionally lets their covercrops re-seed, while still planting and harvesting a main crop in the same area. Is this done? How much of a decrease in the main crop would be expected (this would definitely be variable based upon a number of variables)?

I like AEA as a hidden gold nugget. I will support them until they are mainstream, then move on.

Just WOW. Such exciting information Thankyou!

Is it possible to do regenerative farming in India we grow apple.. Due to lack of rain we do flood irrigation..