Ask Me Anything with John Kempf - August 8

[@IOSARBX]

Advancing Eco Agriculture, amazing

[@revolutionarycitizen]

Hello Mr. Kempf, I’m from India. How to fix mineral nutrition without having access to sap analysis? Can I just add seaweed, fish hydrolysate, humate etc. along with compost extract. I have already prepared soil food web compost and is almost matured with right biology. Thank you

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I'm from India too

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From bangalore here

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@@revolutionarycitizen Any way to connect with you?

[@stevenglisson7614]

No better place to find answers!!

[@jacobrafaat1516]

Hello! Huge respect for the work you’re doing John! I am curious about your new light reader and I wonder if it can tell if heavy metals are in the plant sap. Also when this light reader for plants will be released. I heard about it in the your episode on the bio nutrient integrity podcast

[@peaceofmindfarming]

Good morning from the West Coast! I missed the live stream. Inoculants for mobilizing nutrients are becoming more commonplace, using microbial and fungal inoculations to benefit plans by increasing nutrient mobility and a properly working soil system. Would you be able to expand on some of the microbes and fungi associated with these nutrient mobilization, potentially changing the pH and unlocking others(minerals), causal or coincidental relationships etc etc? Do these innoculations need to be made at different times of the growing season, maximizing benefits? I'm growing medicinal cannabis and herbs, in mid-Willamette Valley Oregon. Thank you so much for donating your time to explain so much in the Q&A. You are such a blessing to so many. 🙏🏻

[@geraldfriesen5600]

What a wealth of knowledge, even with the lack of sleep! The last question about worm composting got me thinking, is anybody doing large-scale worm composting with a variety of plants growing in the worm bins? Thinking cover-crops in worm bins for better biology

[@partidaportet27]

You could add rows of comfrey to reduce brassica club root. Even a comfrey FPJ should help as it contains C Mitians perhaps they changed the names as they often do, a microbe which seems to be a biocontrol for this problem. Also I read there is a microbes from Japanese hogweed bacillus Sub HC8 I recall..this might be a future inoculation opportunity

[@nickangelovski4358]

Hi Friends 😀

[@charlesstenlake5277]

Hello can you tell me if I use an herbicide how long will it take to get my microbes back healthy?

[@norcalcracks]

Peeps with the almond questions, let’s connect! I’m struggling to farm organic almonds in the northern ca sac valley! Great questions!