Fungi as Change Agents: Soil Regeneration Through the Mycelial Lens. Peter McCoy. Founder, Mycologos

[@GreenIsTheWayForward]

Great lecture! I'm quite into biology and learned a lot! Especially the ubiquity of fungi, even in human bodies, damn that really shifts my idea of their role in the big picture. Also that their presence is much more permanent than I thought, not just to process what we would call 'waste' to then disappear again, but in continuous mutualistic roles with plants and even animals. Way too often I encounter pseudoscience in the permaculture community, it is refreshing to hear someone talk about a topic they actually understand pretty thoroughly and not just from anecdotes. I'm gonna look up more of this guy's content, and thanks for sharing!

[@seanthedevlin]

This is the coolest thing I've seen since Fantastic Fungi.

[@bradleykordenbrock6622]

Thank you for this. So glad you actually reference real application techniques instead of just listing all ways they benefit our ecosystems.

[@haroldtheescapist2865]

One of the best lectures I've seen on fungi in relation to soil well done

[@Youdontwantnonebyatch]

What a treasure trove of knowledge! Much gratitude for imparting all of this !! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💙💙💙

[@la912]

I'm a fan of Peter McCoy's work

[@g_baby7133]

ขอบพระคุณมากๆๆครับ กระผมตั้งใจที่จะใช้ภาษาที่กระผมได้ถือกำเนิดดำรงชีพและอยู่อาศัย ถือเป็นภาษาพ่อภาษาแม่ของกระผม นำมาเพื่อแสดงความขอบคุณ สำหรับข้อมูลภาพเคลื่อนไหวและเสียงที่คุณแบ่งปันในที่สาธารณะอีกทั้งแทรกการแปลภาษาหลายๆภาษาไว้ ทำให้กระผมมีโอกาสได้เข้าถึงข้อมูลในระดับที่ลึก แต่ทำความเข้าใจได้ไม่ยากจนเกินไป

[@wanchattheeranaew9893]

Thank you for this great presentation!

[@jeffcrist2977]

Thank you so much. Very exciting info here. I just got into harnessing forest floor "stuff" to inoculate my tomato garden. Healthiest plants I've ever had. I never considered the roll fungi play till now. Revelatory really. I'm bowled over. You said "graces of the internet" and that's it. Thanks for taking the time to put this out there so others can prosper and thrive.

[@garysandersii8126]

Let me say, this have been the best presentation on fungi on KZbin, I have seen, since learning about it and it’s importance. Everyone else that present a presentation about this topic almost always repeat what the last presenter said, and something’s doing it multiple times. Question, can you recommend the most updated book on, the different fungi to support different plants species?

[@lotti9576]

Amazing talk! Am still listening but so beautifully bought across. Thank you.

[@dalewoodhams8364]

Great work and thank you from all the non verbal fungi not bothering to leave a comment 🌱🎶🌱🎶🌱🎶🤗👍

[@AbundanceIowa]

Great talk! I really enjoyed exploring all the interesting branches of the fungal world discussed.

[@tonysu8860]

Great stuff. But yet. Even before studies, to the naked eye observable fungi has been observed breaking down decaying wood when the conditions have been right so it should not be especially surprising that soil microbiology can also sustain fungal activity below the surface. It is interesting to confirm that fungal activity can be very active below ground helping to decompose and perhaps for other purposes wherever the conditions can be right. But more interesting to me is that it can be contradictory to note the benefits of microbial activity in soil including fungal activity at the same time saying that certain fauna that feeds on the same microbial activity including earthworms is also very beneficial. How should we balance the benefits when both are supposed to be beneficial? is the mycelial network beneficial but fauna that feeds on it more beneficial? What is lost if the mycelial network is consumed, does endophytes which purportedly travel from one plant system to another over the mycelial network still happen or is that stymied... Or can endophytes be transported by other means like by earthworms themselves? Or, can endophytes survive the earthworm gut and merely reproduce or are redeposited some distance away? I wonder how essential is the mycelial network to soil health, or if other alternatives can exist to provide similar functionality like earthworms.

[@DevinARobinson]

1:03:33 that's beautiful! thats so awesome that they did that!

[@rochrich1223]

Troops patrolling through the woods of Kentucky at night would break open decomposing branches to release light. It would be visible to dark adapted human eyes, so to night vision goggles or nocturnal animals it would be blatant. Any guesses why fungi should put out light? Any chance it involves nitrogen fixing bacteria? Would be a neat trick to get the building blocks of protein in a food unlimited place.

[@yahya-art-world912]

Can it is possible to use in harsh hot arid conditions

[@tonysu8860]

I'm guessing that hot arid conditions are mainly surface environmental factors and that the below surface environment can be much different. So, no matter what the surface might be like, if there is sufficient carbon and moisture, the temperate conditions below the surface should support microbial activity including fungus and then it's not a matter if but how much activity happens.

[@leelindsay5618]

Lovely info, but get a drink of water, guy. Please.