John Kempf -- Simple & Comprehensive Fertility Management for Market Gardens

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Rudy Steiner’s lectures on agriculture were 100 years ago this month! 🙌 🎉🌾🥬🌽🧅🧄🌶🥑🥕👨‍🌾🧑🏼‍🌾🧑🏼‍🌾👨‍🌾 Let’s partyyyyy! Think I’ll make a carrot cake! John Kempf is the new Rudy Steiner.

[@otivaeey]

Omg, you can change the title to "how to achieve health and fertility without plant sap analysis in a polyculture/garden context". This is a podcast I have been eager to see answered by John. Well, he made it into a Bible level. Everytime I come back to watch, there's something important that I missed. Thank you John. You got to listen to his every word like prophecy.

[@andrewyates1819]

It is prophecy.

[@jeffcrist2977]

Amazing stuff. I was able to follow these guidelines on a small scale outdoors with 18 tomatoes getting 9-10 hr.s full sun. After burying banana skin, coffee grounds, eggshells, and sardines 12" down, I grabbed buckets full of compost, mulched leaves, and soil from the woods next door. Mixed it in with the original soil from the bed I was prepping. I harvested tree bark from a huge dead tree lying in the shady moist environment of the woods. The bark was thick, (oak or cottonwood?) underneath covered in white hairs. I used that as my cover mulch, blanketing the bed. I didn't fertilize or apply anything other than Epsom salt in the watering can with 4 applications. The fruiting is surreal and the flavors are strong and balanced. So now I just have to keep the fly-wheel going. I have to somehow replicate that on a much larger scale. It's thrilling all the way around tho. I learned something major. I watched Dr. James White when you mentioned him. The clouds parted, and the choir sang AAaahhhhhh! This all just makes so much sense as I "dig deeper". Happening to find AEA and you has changed my life in no small measure.

[@paulbraga4460]

if you please, you do not mention soil test in your process!!!??? also epsom salt? indicated by a soil test? mygreathanks and blessings

[@gfl36963]

@@paulbraga4460 and hbyby guy h byguy

[@geezergeezer1]

Jeff: to replicate on a larger scale, drink more coffee. Works for me!

[@smileysgarden]

I always learn so much and enjoy John kempf talks. Thank you 👏

[@rajpoot99]

Excellent, as a lay man bravo!! As an observer It may be added that in very wet environments one may need raised bed plantings with zero till after breaking hardpan/compaction

[@TheVigilantStewards]

Love John Kempf but I do home market gardening (biointensive) so I'm super thrilled to see his stuff applied to that scale and purpose and context!!!!

[@davehansen4208]

Just WoW 🙌🏻 thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and continuing our growth and understanding of our impact and what we can do to help future generations. 🤙🏻

[@jeremyschissler337]

you kick ass!!!!💪

[@regenerativegardeningwithpatti]

Thank you Dan and John! All excellent information for anyone grower but especially for the market or home gardeners, the knowledge sharing is fantastic :) The more I listen to John Kempf the more confidences I am gaining and putting trust my into microbes. The biggest issue I am seeing in my area (eastern and central Montana) is field bindweed, please provide a webinar or short video on this topic it will help a lot of farmers and gardeners. Bless you guy's keep up the great work!

[@lynnwilliams3427]

John check out Hortaqua Rocky Williams air as plant food, KZbin

[@danam2584]

I have a problem in eastern North Dakota that my field bindweed is even complaining about to much bindweed.

[@regenerativegardeningwithpatti]

@@danam2584 Yes, the entire are of ND and MT and parts of Canada need a lot of help with bindweed issues.

[@AutoEngineerVideos]

Thanks for the informative lecture. I've found the quote from the first few minutes of the lecture and the person to whom it's credited: "I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (not Oliver Cromwell) 😁

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

This is another excellent informative talk! Thank Dan and John!

[@joshbiggums4268]

You are everywhere

[@paulruizbraga855]

magnificent...any more would have been too much for the purposes of this lecture - it is a "putting it all together" presentation - that struggle we must all go through whether one is gardening a quarter of a hectare or 100 hectares...blessings to all

[@paulbraga4460]

wonderful, particularly for the gardener or community farm...mygreathanks and blessings

[@andrewyates1819]

This is a beautiful thing. 😍

[@garettwatson8468]

Dr. Ingham says every soul has enough nutrients to grow a perfectly healthy crop, even the the trace ones. Would love to figure out why your two opinions differ as I respect you both immensely

[@doweliketurtles6613]

I think the main difference is john is talking about bioavailable nutrients! It's true that almost every soil has everything it needs for all native plants, it's just that it may not be in a form that is available to all plants! A very valuable clarification!

[@FlylightD]

I have a hard time understand mulch. I have plenty of wood chips and oak leaves but it’s seems that people really like using hay or straw but I can’t find any that isn’t sprayed with herbicide. How are people getting this? I’m near Atlanta.

[@mauricecalliss1303]

I always thought plants fed of biology anyway i thought that was everyone's understanding. And ions in hydrophonics was just an artificial way to grow . And to me soil seems to have turned In to just a substrate . (Turning soil into rockwool) and feeding it ions. Its got to have been so obvious .comon sense speaks volumes .how can anybody not have known theses things that were discussing now. As brilliant as the science is. I'm no farmer but why arnt we already growing in super healthy soils .it's an ironic situation. But glad it's getting steered back oncourse.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

Is this info in John Kempf's Quality Agriculture textbook? I really hope it is all in there! Once money starts coming back in it's on my permaculture list of books to buy

[@paulbraga4460]

it is there kinda, that is, scattered all over the place. the book is actually of interviews you can find at AEA and John's blog. why i did not buy the book. and you said "my permaculture list of books." it certainly does not have the flavor of permaculture. i have not heard Kempf comment on permaculture and i easily remember even a passing mention when i am listening...blessings to all

[@RickThePeasant]

Great presentation. Can someone please list the 5 cover crops, I missed them.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

This was live? How did I miss?

[@glassbackdiy3949]

What is the recomended application rate for Basalt power to increase/provide paramagnitism?

[@bhishmadesai6500]

Wonderful information and great presentation. Can someone give more information on geological essay and CEC test.

[@CorJenFarm]

The geological essay is a "total test" that extracts all the usual minerals on a soil test and shows you how much is truly in your soil. Midwest labs does the test. I believe it's $22.

[@mauricecalliss1303]

I know this may not seem relevant in relation to soils. But .I've seen 2 feet deep of sand in a mouth of a marine estuary covering a substantial area just up and move in just one tide that had no heavy movement current to be able to move such a large amount of sand being covered by 2 feet of water. And then return a week later. That seem impossible. The water never moved it not without help. Electromagnetic charge from biology or them clinging to sand particulates maybe. These were regular cycles it would come and go (2feet of sand gone grom a large area only being covered by one foot of water ) thats questionable but i tell you its truth. These things were just never questioned but similar archetypes are at work land and sea .I'm sure there's a relevant there for thought. Thank you

[@nc4801]

A question on rhizophagy - in light of this research does this mean we should cease applying NPK completely, even if we are applying organic NPK amendments to the soil? If we do need to add these, should they only be applied as a foliar application as to not disrupt this rhizophagy process?

[@TurboA4]

How do all the other bugs in the soil contribute?

[@vytautaskacka7907]

What is the optimal temperature for soil biology? Too high temperature stops biology but too low temperature shall also at least slowdown biology or not?

[@jacoblandis4535]

I believe it is similar to the temperature range most plants prefer. 16-30C But the micro climate around the roots can be a bit different than the surrounding soil temp, specifically when it gets cold. The biology around plant roots can keep that area warmer when the outside temp gets colder. But also consider that plants are feeding the soil biology, and healthy plants feed the biology better than stressed plants. Different plants perform better in different temperatures, so a diversity of root systems will encourage soil biology that can continue working at high levels over a broad range of temperatures.

[@NinjaRastaMon]

All the thumbs down are guys with hydro systems and a closet full of bottled chemicals

[@TheVigilantStewards]

So if you were using a Geoff Lawton Chicken compost system where they help with the plant based compost piles that would be ok? And for the overly nitrified area of the coop, you could use that on biomass production areas off of the market garden and maintain just vermicompost and plant based compost for the rows?

[@mmccrownus2406]

I suggest KNF chickens as a search

[@mmccrownus2406]

Korean natural farming JADAM version

[@dewinovianty8107]

If I brewing compost tea, is it fungal can be cultures in the water? Sorry if my English not good. Thanks

[@miramirez3574]

❤️‍🔥

[@Norbingel]

John says that there's a potential problem when adding animal manure to vermicompost but doesn't elaborate. Does anyone know what the problem is? I'm assuming it has to do with the potential diseases? I thought worms could process it out of the manure. Would putting the manure through black soldier flies first then their frass to worms eliminate the problem? Ty!

[@inilegnam]

It has to do with excessive levels of potassium and phosphorous.

[@Norbingel]

@@inilegnam Do you mean that the castings will have those excessive levels after the worms process them? But isn't animal manure also a major component of many a compost pile?

[@karlsapp7134]

@@Norbingelyes, excess potassium and phosphorus are problems in some soils wherever they come from

[@Norbingel]

@@karlsapp7134 so it's not that manure itself is a problem in vermicompost but that the potassium and phosphorus in them could be a problem when applied to soils? Seems rather strange that he would say it's adding the manure that is the problem rather than then applying the resulting vermicast to the soil.

[@chrisshepherd8708]

What about rabbit manure?

[@ttanne7838]

where do you get SE? At AEA?

[@Mi_amor12345]

what a good interview ;)

[@twiggyfuentesrn7939]

Okay

[@marlan5470]

"Plants are not vegetarian"...

[@matthewkheyfets1309]

How does this work for pots 🤣