Antimicrobial Agriculture

[@OwlMoovement]

I've been binging your material and Christine Jones' lectures for a bit over a month. Even before finding this video, I've definitely made a vocabulary shift, starting to refer to conventional ag as a 'germaphobic' model and de-euphamising all of the poisons we spray around in that model to simply call them that: poisons.

[@jamesbutterson5218]

Great show 👍 y'all listen up knowledge is power! ☝💚

[@LittleJordanFarm]

Thankful to have found you guys. I'm the padt I've put a small piece of homemade hotpress lye soap in a 5 gallon bucket I use for compost tea. For the purpose of keeping mosquitos at bay. Am I killing my properties in my tea? I'm soooooo excited about learning from you guys. Blessings

[@StanOwden]

Thanks for you answers, John.

[@allanturpin2023]

Hi. Just found your channel. Could you address the hesitancy about the information offered that I automatically experience when someone spends so much time marketing a product? Or, in your case, three products? Do you have a stake in the company? Are they sponsors? Friends or family?

[@eliotvanpeski3169]

John Kempf founded the company Advancing Eco Agriculture, which produces these products. It is always good to keep potential vested interests in mind. Like you, I am cautious and conservative with these matters. However, I find John's work to be inspiring and far beyond just promoting products. I've met him and developed some trust for him. Each of us needs to remain sensitive and make our own decisions.

[@MadanPoudelmdn]

Thanks John! I farm in sandy soil, top soil is good but i don't have good soil profile. How would I manage nutrition on sandy soil if I don't have good geological profile?

[@martysaskatchewan740]

Build a fence. Get some cattle running thru there you'll improve everything...non-selective rotational intensive grazing. Stop tilling that soil immediately. Stop spraying it immediately. Check out Jim Elizondo and Gabe Brown on YT. You don't have to spend a fortune. You just have to change your management.

[@inigomontoya8943]

Hi you asked this question a while ago but I used to grow in South Florida which is basically beach sand with a layer of organic matter on top of you’re lucky. Even with no til and biological farming techniques a large amount of the goodness seems to disappear down into the sand forever. We and others found mixing in char. Independent of it being innoculated with bio or not, it seemed to create a floor in the soil profile that our lighter smaller particles could get a grip on and not wash through. I’m not talking anything complex but a steady fed fire quenched a bit at a time with a garden hose sortof thing. The fact it was charred made it last a lot longer than if we were putting in regular wood chips and it wasn’t locking up nitrogen. You may have to lay down a thick layer of that and compost and give it a one time till but you should have phenomenal working soil after that. Of course that’s a great time to add biology too. I’m all for no to minimal tilage but sometimes one pass can save you a decade and then you can build up your soil from there. Best of luck to you.

[@Stilgar74]

Thanks John! How can I listen live to submit questions for the broadcast?

[@rondianderson4402]

www.advancingecoag.com/

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

Hi Stilgar74, to listen live to the webinar and submit questions, sign up for webinar alerts here: eepurl.com/bZLMC9

[@robmiller2919]

I think notill is overrated , I have had good luck with minimal tillage , even with a moldboard plow every few years after a perennial crop. My yields have been better than on long term notill fields and I use can use cheap equipment that nobody else wants , I think crop rotation and keeping a living root as long as possible is more important than just to not till.

[@Horse237]

I have been thinking about your video on Structured Water. If I had a greenhouse and laid a water strip 6 inches deep, I would want to water with structured water at least once a week. Maybe more often. I would use normal filtered water with nutrients on other days. Structured water is also EZ or Exclusion Zone water so I am thinking it ought not to be mixed with chelated minerals. Has anyone experimented with Structured Water and agriculture? Thanks.

[@NaMe-ku4cl]

What is structured water? 😬

[@Horse237]

@@NaMe-ku4cl I have since changed my mind about watering from below. Generate carbon dioxide and put into a tank of water and do a foliar spray. Promises 30% increase in yield. The Dutch get 900,000 pounds per acre of tomatoes in greenhouses. Structured water or Exclusion Zone water is water that takes nutrients 100 feet (about 30 meters) up a tree by a process of attraction and repulsion. There are people who will sell you an electromagnet and claim that the resulting water is structured. Not so. It is magnetized. Elsewhere I learned that magnetized water is good for people with arthritis. Dr Mella says we need infrared light to go from magnetized to structured water. This kind of water reduces the amount of nutrients and fertilizers you need to buy to feed your plants. So after all this study, I discovered that plants need ultraviolet and infrared light which they cannot get inside a greenhouse. So back to the drawing board. If you built 4 greenhouses, they could share one electromagnet and one carbon dioxide generator. 4 greenhouses could gross $400,000 a year in sales in the US. Stick to crops with short maturity periods and use magnetism as a source of energy. Chinese people butcher chickens in big cities so housewives can serve fresh chicken with lots of energy. You need to consume energy as well as nutrients. Dr Arden Andersen MD PhD told us to feed volcanic rock dust to worms. The result is paramagnetic amino acid chelated minerals. He gets short growth periods at a friend's greenhouse in Canada.

[@rondianderson4402]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[@safffff1000]

Outstanding info

[@xxpowwowbluexx]

Does this concept also apply to organic, grass lawns? Should I go out and till my clay yard up to 12 inches deep, mid in compost and add a layer of compost over the top, and then reseed it in order to grow a completely organic and self-sustaining grass lawn?

[@charlescoker7752]

I tried ECO Agriculture. I went $250,000 in debt. Took over 15 years to pay off the debt. Was forced out of farming.

[@Nicolasdu5]

Can you explain what you have done?

[@inigomontoya8943]

I’m not entirely sure that is true but assuming you’re telling the truth… perhaps you should have asked for help from someone experienced? $100,000 in the hole you never stopped to think maybe I’m not doing this right?

[@charlescoker7752]

@@inigomontoya8943 Have I ever lied to you before?

[@nicklomas6017]

I am not familiar with the products that you have found to help regenerate the soil I use only organic matter and worms Should you not be guiding or at least mentioning this works with no chemical additives I fact several years ago, a piece of contaminated land was sold,and government order issued to dig out and remove the chemical contaminates. The new owner appeared to disappear for three years, however he was introducing worms on massive scale, with leaf mould old hay straw etc Three years later he had land re tested, and to a depth. of 1.5 meters no contamination was found

[@karenf9137]

Riiiiiight!!!!! So few people understand the great potential of worms. They not only mitigate pollutants and toxins, but they can fix compaction. The lowly, but mighty worm.

[@davidwalters9462]

You didn't mention the use of cattle to break of the hard pan.

[@charlescoker7752]

You can get paid $1300 acer per year from the Government by planting trees . Get paid for sequestering carbon.

[@stevehargis321]

Dude U just dont get it?? Microbs r the answer & I can make it work economical with the correct water. U need 2 come see my farm & count the worms......

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

Steve Hargis, It is self-evident that you haven't watched the webinar. 🤣