Rapidly Rebuild Your Soil Health Part 3: How to Kickstart Soil Health With Beneficial Fungi

In this webinar we go over 3 steps to rebuild your soil health with beneficial fungi!
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In this webinar, we look at the 3 steps you can take with beneficial fungi to rebuild the health of your soils. The process starts by locating and gathering beneficial microorganisms from your local area. The second step is to multiply the beneficial microorganisms using the close-control, aerobic composting method developed by Dr. Elaine Ingham. This ensures that many pathogens are eliminated and that you get a good balance of the 4 key groups of microorganisms needed in a healthy soil. In step 3, we apply the beneficial microorganisms to the soil in either solid (compost) or liquid (teas/extracts) form - depending on the context. Once the organisms are back in the soil, it is imperative that regenerative methods are adopted, to ensure that the soil biome is protected.
Panelists:
Adam's passion for agriculture emerged in 2008, during his three months of volunteer work on organic farms in New Zealand. His time in graduate school cultivated a broad vision for the restoration of living soils, as well as utilization of research and community engagement to address current and emerging global food production challenges. After completing his doctorate at Oklahoma State University in 2016, he was funded as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Instructor. During the past 5 years, Adam authored or coauthored 20 research publications focused on agroecology and plant-microbial symbioses. He also taught multiple undergraduate and graduate courses on global food security, restoration ecology, and environmental science. He joined The Soil Food Web School in 2021, following his dream to help regenerate soils, improve human nutrition, and protect our planet.
Brian came from a background in IT and now runs a successful consultancy (Sprouting Soils) in California.
The daughter of a forest engineer and an agronomist, science and nature were part of Dr. Carla Portugal’s childhood while growing up in Brazil. Her graduate school research focused on looking for the microbe's power to minimize human impact on the planet. At the Soil Food Web School, Dr. Portugal utilizes her expertise in research and teaching while also pursuing her interest in developing a greater understanding about the interconnection among the microbes in the soils and how nutrient cycling affects the nutritional value of plants.
Dr. Ingham has advanced our knowledge about the soil food web for over 4 decades. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering ordinary people to bring the soils in their community back to life
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The Soil Food Web School’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to regenerate the soils in their communities. The Soil Food Web Approach can dramatically accelerate soil regeneration projects by focussing on the soil biome. This can boost the productivity of farms, provide super-nutritious foods, protect and purify waterways, and reduce the effects of Climate Change. No background in farming or biology is required for our Foundation Courses. Classes are online & self-paced, and students are supported by highly-trained Soil Food Web School mentors.
Over the last four decades, Dr. Elaine Ingham has advanced our knowledge of the Soil Food Web. An internationally-recognized leader in soil microbiology, Dr. Ingham has collaborated with other scientists and with farmers around the world to further our understanding of how soil organisms work together and with plants. Dr. Ingham is an author of the USDA's Soil Biology Primer and a founder of the Soil Food Web School.
00:00 Intro to topic and panelists
09:01 How Fungi Can Kickstart Your Soil
57:11 Q&A
#SoilHealth #SoilRegeneration #SoiFoodWeb

[@soilfoodwebschool]

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any promos coming up in the near future? Our 3rd world currencies keep us from enrolling...😢

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Bees We have a promo right now: promo.soilfoodweb.com/jul23s-erb-va/ Take a look at this great video: promo.soilfoodweb.com/jul23s-erb/#roberto-s that shows a farmer in Peru working together with Miles Sorel, a Soil Food Web consultant, and the work to transition away from chemicals to soil biology.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Interesting side note: my property was scraped bare annually for a decade, as weed control. I’m trying a chaos garden! My tilling was a small trench about 2” deep. After a friend passed away and left us a huge collection of 30 year old seeds, I threw many different seeds in those trenches. Native grasses and flowers, all kinds of vegetables, beans, corn, daikon radish, sorghum Sudan grass, oats, clovers. I doubt everything will grow but some of it already is!

[@xikano8573]

I first heard Paul Stamets talk about the fungi on the Joe Rogan podcast back in 2019 and he blew my mind. Before then I thought mushrooms were just a salad topping, some random plant-like thingie that grew on my yard after the rain or stuff weirdies messed around with back in college. To Dr. Elaine and the whole SFW team, thank you for sharing your work w/the world!!!

[@jonathanalberto6738]

Guam

[@ciarancullen3575]

Same honestly and just got his book mycelium running a couple days ago and it is definitely worth a read!

[@rlhuddy]

South Africa : - Good morning!

[@kalsinaturalfarming2337]

I m hardishpal singh kalsi from India. I m doing organic and not tillaged farming from last 3 year's. According your guidance so that I want thanks to you. Again thanks for lot of great information

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Kalsi Natural Farming we had an interesting webinar recently featuring a project in India, you might like to watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4bGaX6mo7yUd7c As long as you registered for the webinar series, you will have access to the replays of all the webinars. Replays will be posted here within approximately 48 hours after each webinar airs live: webinar.soilfoodweb.com/reg-webinar-rebuilding-soil-health Here is the lineup of webinars in the "Rapidly Rebuild Your Soil Health" series: Webinar 1: How Soil Health Works airs live on Thursday, October 6 at 11a.m. Pacific (7p.m. London) Webinar 2: Soil Health Success Stories airs live on Wednesday, October 12 at 11a.m. Pacific (7p.m. London) Webinar 3: How to Rebuild Soil Health in 1 Growing Season airs live on Thursday, October 20 at 11a.m. Pacific (7p.m. London) Webinar 4: Meet the Soil Health Experts airs live on Thursday, October 27 at 11a.m. Pacific (7p.m. London)

[@kalsinaturalfarming2337]

I have already watched to your all webinar

[@venus1604]

Your contact details

[@yarrw]

In Africa some of us use herds of cattle or goats to fertilise the soil and reverse desertification. I blame mono-culture crops with agrichemicals for the lack of birds like European swallows, guinea fowl and pigeons.

[@michelleray8831]

I pick a huge healthy tree in the forest and get a shower full of soil by it and make plugs with it. I put these plugs in different places around my yard.

[@user-jg7zu6uu7x]

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[@karenf9137]

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[@febcherylmaghanoy4280]

Am from Philippines and I am always following your webinars.

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Feb Cheryl Maghanoy You may be interested in this video showing our students from all over the world and what they have to say about studying with us: promo.soilfoodweb.com/oct22-consultant-va/#student-reviews

[@Omegacrafton]

Thank,s for your detailed information about soil health and soil microbiology which helps me in my farming

[@joelbruneski6486]

WOW. I wish I could understand all of that. It was a great presentation. LOTs of great info

[@wildmanofthenorth1598]

Dr.Elane mentioned Oak Trees having a problem. I believe that many bolete mushroom mycorrhizal with Oak maybe that might help situation. Thanks again.

[@urbangardeningwithgray]

Wow! Great information! Soil health is super important!😀

[@rozicabatic478]

Thanks for this so important work. ❤Greetings from Slovenia.

[@guloguloguy]

THANK YOU, FOR THIS "DEEP DIVE" INTO SOME OF THESE SOIL RELATED ISSUES! IMHO: IN RECENT YEARS, I'VE BECOME MUCH MORE AWARE OF, AND IMPRESSED BY, THE AMAZING DISCOVERIES, AND METHODS, OF IMPROVING SOILS, CROP PRODUCTION, AND OUR "HEALTH"...AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY, AND SPECIES DIVERSITY, ALL BY IMPROVING OUR SOILS!! 👍👌🙏💝

[@KP-sg9fm]

Missouri. Appreciate the knowledge 👌

[@JulesGardening]

Thank you so much. Very good to know. 👍

[@Mansahx]

Love these video. Im Signing up for the class tomorrow. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Mansa- we will be delighted to have you study with us. Feel free to contact us at [e-mail] and for more details about our recent offer visit: promo.soilfoodweb.com/oct22-consultant-va/#overview

[@agentsmith1573]

I wish I could afford it! I would LOVE to take advantage of the Biocomplete Compost Bundle but there's no way in heck I can afford almost 4 grand.. I really really really want to, though! I am a small hemp farmer in Colorado wanting to turn my desert prairie into healthy soil again.

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Agent Smith Please do get in touch at [e-mail] so we can discuss affordable options

[@reubenjamesrollon7579]

Here in Caraga State University, we produce microbial inoculants like the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Trichoderma and Bacillus

[@billiebruv]

Compost biology eclipses lab produced biology by a factor of '000's, not including trichoderma

[@plantlove5257]

The trichoderma is good at breaking down rock dust, right?? Amongst the many benefits that is.

[@sunlight8299]

I'm watching in London UK

[@Robertplatt420]

Jardín , Antioquia Colombia 🇨🇴

[@brianseybert2189]

Have you any ideas of reclaiming soils devastated by jumping worms?

[@cy1196]

As per your weedy plants, are you talking about grasses & sedges that predominantly cover the lowest canopy?

[@djssquibbs3295]

saldos desde Costa Rica! :)

[@mikerharrison5104]

Anybody else see the black shadow guy speed bye from left to right at about the 15:23 - 15:27 mark, somewhere in there.

[@mikeymike3440]

Good job

[@soilfoodwebschool]

Thank you!

[@datajames]

What are some solutions we could promote to support both the soil food web as well as the agricultural industry which already heavily rely on amendments and synthetic/chemical nutrients? How can these nutrient manufacturers etc continue to profit, changing over to the soil food web?

[@user-su1iv3zr9w]

SW Florida

[@joelbruneski6486]

How about using vermicompost? Do worms add to the microbe load?

[@billiebruv]

Oh yes, but the source material is important too

[@wesleycallison5593]

The worms have biology in their gut so whatever they digest and excrete is very good.

[@torrencekrepps757]

Maryland and PA I live on the Mason Dixon line

[@endgamefond]

Here I'm from Indonesia. I just started gardening a week ago and I am concerned about my spinach because the root come off and they just fall down (tho they're still green)

[@kinsjsmggoiktaylor5659]

The Juno From County Durham England 👏👏👏👏

[@garybennett7851]

Kigali, Rwanda

[@johngraczyk4583]

Michigan

[@gaylenemccain2028]

Kentucky, USA

[@rolandocimafranca2414]

i always used herbecides in my farm and inorganic fertilizers. Now we suffered cause the capacity of the soil is degrading

[@Bongwell420]

Late to the party, North Carolina is in the house!!!!

[@IAmHumanJake]

I live on a hill that has the equivalent of dune like sand( like lake Michigan dunes) there's a big patch of sand that i call the sand pits. But the whole yard has this sand, just covered with plants. More of the weedy plants you say. What's a approach i can do to help it

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@IAmHumanJake Please feel free to send your questions to [e-mail]

[@timothyonucki1860]

Central mountains Costa Rica

[@bearupfarm1818]

My question is. I have bare soil not much of grass or weeds growing, so we have to add fertilizer at low rate to get the grass to grow and graze with cows and slowly back of on fertilizer .so is this a good start?

[@brianbiddle7590]

I am no expert so take this with grain of salt and some tequila, fertilizer may give you a faster start it will probably slow down your progress to healthy soil. If you already have the cattle i would spread their hay out. Put enough out so they eat about 80% and move them to the next area by spreading the hay out in a different area. Not only do you get the urine and poop from the cow but you get that 20% of hay to help feed the soil. Also try a tea from worm castings to help bring back the soil health. Just my two cents.

[@b_uppy]

You want to add compost made from local native materials, according to the video...

[@wesleycallison5593]

You are doing good. Bale grazing is probably a better idea. You lay good hay out directly on the areas you wish to improve and let the cattle eat it, stomp it in, defecate and urine on it then move the feeding area fairly quick.

[@ifeelikedyeing360]

Water your bare land frequently before and after attempting inoculation. Purchase mycorrhiza fungi and apply it to the bare ground (a little goes a long way). Then add 3-5 inches of mulch (wood chips, dry grass, dry straw). Water frequently & NEVER TILL. I feed my soil not my plants.. lol iykyk

[@Mansahx]

Doesn’t the thermophilic process kill off all organisms because the heat is so hot that nothing can survive?

[@soilfoodwebschool]

That is a great question! This is one of the many amazing things about nature, if the heat is maintained in the proper range (around 131-151 F), it will kill the potentially harmful organisms but not the beneficials.

[@alinanikawala8126]

what type of microscope need in order to attend a soil food web class? i would appreciate if recommendations are given

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Alinani Kawala Feel free to contact us at [e-mail] with your quesitons

[@jamohney]

I'd like to know more about these class, would love to do this, is it too late?

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[@neverwinterfarms]

Just for clarification; are you talking about compost or earth worms?

[@delroyashun6888]

South Wales uk😊

[@newearth1912]

👏🏼

[@debbysousley1436]

Warsaw Missouri

[@user-zs2is2pk5v]

summary plz ...to do 123

[@adamrommeledwin8949]

Hello there, How can i contact elaine ingham ?

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Adam Rommel Edwin Please feel free to contact us here: [e-mail] and we can pass on to Dr Elaine

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Canada

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High Point, NC The Furniture Capital of the World

[@terristurkie5975]

East Tn.

[@paulasmith4933]

Kansas

[@Ozjockey111]

Thailand

[@sandponics]

You may not have noticed, but Greenland is now getting warmer, and forests are starting to grow.

[@tonyeden8381]

Warmer than when?

[@sandponics]

@@tonyeden8381 Warmer than it was before. Let's say it is probably warmer now than it was 100 years ago, although possibly not as warm as it was 65 million years ago. At least not yet.

[@tonyeden8381]

@@sandponics it is warmer than 200 years ago but quite a bit cooler than 1,200 years ago

[@tonyeden8381]

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Kali, U.S.A.

[@liamblythe6149]

UK

[@ginaroebuck1493]

Spain

[@vcarry1393]

Melbourne Australia

[@guest8053]

I'm from NYC. We have no healthy real soil here inda city. 5,10,20 pound bags are only sold at home depot.

[@gordonmacmillan1710]

Scotland

[@resolutionarybeing1885]

nw WASHINGTON

[@davist-mq5db]

Virginia

[@0035diamond]

Rhode Island

[@rorkgoose6114]

When Adam talks about fungi, in this vid, it seems, from the papers he touts, that he is only thinking of mycorrhizal fungi. That is a shame. I believe we will find that saprophytic fungi, on the whole, are more essential and beneficial to the plants we want/need to grow than are mycorrhizal fungi. It's too bad that SF aren't studied much and MF are the most studied microorganisms in the world. We are getting a distorted view of things, but that's where the money is. It's a lot like climate change in this sense.

[@liviuburcos5375]

🇷🇴 romania

[@karenf9137]

🙋‍♀️

[@jadejaharshvardhan]

My pomegranate trees are dieing

[@jadejaharshvardhan]

What to do i trying fungal brews

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@harshvardhansinh jadeja Sorry to hear your trees are in trouble. you might find these case studies video of interest: promo.soilfoodweb.com/oct22-consultant/#casestudies

[@manegrigue]

Armenia

[@littlegreen5845]

So the end goal is forest? I’m not convinced this research is very broad to a variety of environments. So what about the Sonora desert or the 28th latitude north or Florida? Our geology is sand. Beach sand that is constantly anaerobic. Naturally disrupted by fire in the best ecological case and characterized by “weed” species that feed ground birds like quail. I believe your research but I find it myopic.

[@jayvardhanupadhyay8161]

India,

[@fatimaseton2396]

Concord nh

[@fatimaseton2396]

Fatima dying feddle

[@brianeagar1208]

Mainer..

[@karlbutler3351]

I love the work Elaine has done but how the heck are we supposed to concentrate on rebuilding our soils when our criminal government is saturating it with aluminum and other heavy metals with geoengineering programs? Sorry for bringing negativity here but it is a honest question.

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[@modsa8901]

South Africa. What's left of it - after the ANC Regime have systematically, bit by bit, piece by piece - looted, pillaged, broken and destroyed it.

[@coveyma]

does it annoy anyone else when some pronounces Fungi Fun-Ji and not Fun-gai?

[@MsShawn43]

Not me...

[@greatergood3706]

No

[@umiluv]

No.

[@soilfoodwebschool]

@Marc Covey Is this a case of to-mar-toe tom-ay-toe

[@jasonterry8883]

I don’t need a PhD in fungi. I need the recipe!!!!!!! Water, fungi food, fungi source, aeration required, duration of aeration, and application method!!! Should take no longer than 5 minutes!

[@flatsville9343]

Short term - Create a worm bin using woody & shrubby material (lots of shredded leaves.) Use the vermicompost when you plant in seeds or seedlings. Lomg term- Early Spring, reate a free standing worm bin on top of the ground with woody & shrubby material (lots of leaves.) Remove when fall approaches. Plant in a winter kill covercrop mix. Follow termination of cc, plant out.

[@greatergood3706]

@Jason Terry - you already know the answers

[@xikano8573]

Hahaha...Oh, but you do need a PhD. No 5 minute solutions here!!! 😅

[@flatsville9343]

@xi kano Depends on the scale. If you are large scale farming or managing a pasture, it becomes complicated. For most gardeners or even market gardeners, using your own vermicompost, a Johnson-Su Bioreator or hand raising you own mycorrhiza fungi is doable. After a couple of seasons, the results should be evident. Testing to get bacteria & fungi counts can be expensive if you have no microscope background, but do you really need it for smaller scale?

[@trinkladd]

False takes no phd. You add compost and organic material back into the soil. Add hardwood s the finger the better. This adds aeration. Add organic o molasses support free to feed microbes and adds magnesium and calcium. Once every two s add an inch layer of e compost followed y layer of j. Could be grass clipping. Leaf litter. Straw. Wood chips. You burn some wood? Add the wood ask e this is potash. If u use as lot of wood chips. You want to add blood meal to increase in soil as wood s will quickly use the nitrogen as they break down. Use a lot of leaf litter. You will need to add some polarized lime to raise ph. Lime also adds cabin and magnesium. Leaf litter great for adding fungi. Don’t overthink it these clowns are pretending to hold secret knowledge. Indians would throw dead fish and guts to a hole in ground then plant on top. Legumes poor brand add to the soil. So makes great plant to eat and to add organic matter to soil. After harvest use the plant as compost

[@scsfulsarahr598]

FUN GUY!!! FUNG-GUY!!! NOT FunJee😱🙄

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[@randersen2171]

i must arrest your haybale hypothesis. Youve had alot of fertilisation around that bale, also you hade fertilisation in the tracks.

[@sandponics]

The new permaculture system known as sandponics aligns closely with your soil microbiology theories. The search term "sandponics info" displays relevant links.

[@williemasterofdestruction5339]

Have you seen what Leighton Morrison has done? Look up horizonal soil. He is a genius.

[@judyvance1556]

SW Ohio

[@judyvance1556]

SW Ohio