Roots for Resilience - Joel Williams. Soil Biology Conference 2021

[@STEAMLabDenver]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@edbourgeois8601]

Nice to see importance of microbial necromass. Just needs to include mention of plant biome rhizophagy functioning.

[@advancedaginc.898]

Hi Ed, have you watched Dr. Jody's video? She goes into more detail about the rhizosphere.

[@ploughboy6356]

@@advancedaginc.898 well said, at the beginning of the presentation, Joel states that he's focusing because of the wealth of info presented earlier.

[@kapungwephiri8258]

Very detailed

[@kapungwephiri8258]

Yet easy to understand

[@jimmydykes7961]

I grow corn,I'm not a soil scientist ...get this on our level

[@rustyschackleford5800]

Minimize soil disturbance Maximize crop diversity Keep the soil covered Maintain living roots in the soil year round Integrate livestock. If you can figure out a way to do pull that off, the soil feeds itself! All you gotta do is add seeds, bud. It's all about the seeds. The big corps just want to sell you more and more expensive fertilizer.

[@jimmydykes7961]

@@rustyschackleford5800 doing that already.always planted cover crops now I'm cover crops and no till

[@rustyschackleford5800]

@@jimmydykes7961 Awesome, I wish you well. I'd say that makes you smarter than the guys who get soil tests and make up formulas. At the end of the day, cover crops/ no till will fix just about any soil, right? Do a search on youtube for Gabe Brown. He's a no till farmer and has some good info that's easier to listen to.

[@jimmydykes7961]

@@rustyschackleford5800 I've done that,and hopefully in a few yrs.we'll have some of the best soil around.alabama has some really tough unforgiving soil

[@brennagarten317]

Add to @Rusty Schackleford. The diverse crop or cover crop should include 4+ families--for instance: cereals, grasses, brassicas, legumes, and chenopods (see Peter Caligari). That could be millet, maize, mustard, peas and swiss chard.

[@SetTheCurve]

A is a letter of the alphabet, B is a letter in the alphabet, C now C is a letter in the alphabet, and see here D is also a letter in the alphabet…

[@666bruv]

What the absolute fuck are you banging on about?

[@tiesthijsthejs]

Man alive I’m lost in the nuanced complexities of variables that make a good soil equilibrium of microbiology and mycology and the likes. As I attempt to learn more for the sake a bottom-up approach of tiny private food forests, all clarity is lost in the details of how to guide all the unwanted fungi and nematodes and acidity and nitrogen types. Utterly overwhelming.

[@brennagarten317]

Mark Shephard's explanations are down-to-earth. with 23 years or more experience.

[@tiesthijsthejs]

@@brennagarten317 thanks I hope that might help me

[@greighenning9091]

@@tiesthijsthejs LOL