The Importance of Fungi in the World’s Soils | Peter McCoy

As powerful decomposers and efficient nutrient movers, the world’s macro and micro fungi fulfill critical roles in the sustainment of resilient soil and habitat ecologies. In this talk, Peter McCoy highlights these keystone fungal functions to demonstrate the many reasons that the funga should be placed alongside the flora and fauna in any discussion on environmental health.
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Peter McCoy is an author, researcher, and interdisciplinary educator advancing a variety of applied mycology fields. With nearly 20 years of experience working with fungi, Peter is widely regarded as a pioneer in areas of environmental regeneration utilizing fungi. And his exhaustive reference guide to these and other practices, Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi (Chthaeus Press, 2016), is considered a milestone for the progress of mycology as a people’s science.
Peter is an original founder of the mycological advocacy organization Radical Mycology, a committee member of the Fungi Film Festival, and the founder of MYCOLOGOS, the world’s first mycology school. From his hometown in Portland, Oregon, Peter’s daily practice centers on pondering, designing, cultivating, and researching ever-healthier relations between humans, fungi, and the habitats we share.
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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.
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00:00:00 Adrienne's Introduction
00:01:34 Peter McCoy's Welcome
00:03:56 What our fungi?
00:06:02 Spitzenkorper
00:08:00 Fungal Queendom & What is their ecological role in soils?
00:15:12 Phosphorus
00:27:09 Mycorrhizaal Species

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[@scsfulsarahr598]

FUNG-GUY!

[@roverinosnarkman7240]

Best lecture on your channel!! Excellent! He needs to be a guest for a question and answer session please!

[@dennispovloski8102]

Wow! What an excellent presentation. Thank you!

[@damianicely]

I thought i knew a lot about fungi and soil biology but this video proved me wrong on both counts! Thank you for opening up all those hidden wonders behind the term "mycorrhizal fungi".

[@tinkeringinthailand8147]

Lately I have been learning so much about how to farm with nature, and your channel (with the high calibre of guests you have on it) has really given me most of my soil knowledge. Thanks :)

[@soilfoodwebschool]

Thank you for watching!

[@chipsramek3868]

Dust to Dust honey.....

[@floriebrown2089]

Thank you for all the very interesting information a subject that is vast when you get into it, all the things I admire and love in nature. Great video.😃

[@PeasantByTheSouthernSea]

What a fascinating talk. Much appreciated. The only point of disagreement is that i like to refer to the "fungal kindom" as fungi are the weavers of kinship relations that seem to subvert any hierarchy such as king or queen.

[@VideoconferencingUSA]

Nice job and thanks for having great audio. I listen at 1.5x speed while working in my garden.

[@rudyhermanthe4654]

Inspirational presentation 👍👍

[@la912]

Awesome presentation!

[@zezanone3425]

great presentation of a vast knowledge! interesting and helpful! thank you much!

[@rustyschackleford5800]

Outstanding info and sound quality.

[@randalmoroski1184]

Wow what world we’ve been given..!

[@timeparticles]

Great presentation!

[@gtavtheavengergunnerlegend3340]

Lots of new information on this video. Worth watching

[@amiensarabellis8391]

Thank you!!

[@chenscott8788]

THANKS A MILMLLION!We are promoting Terra Preta Sanitation in China. We need fungi knowledge.

[@misterjones2u]

Excellent and fascinating

[@MicrobeMomma]

Incredible presentation I get more and more every time I listen.

[@RubberDuckStyle]

Thanks 👍👍👍👊

[@420Trees]

Thanks

[@kemet432]

Any info on cunderwater mushrooms or fungi and do they share nutrients to plants?

[@michelbisson6645]

i began to read your book really inspiring, i am not where it explain what is the best food to grow fungi in compost, on a video Dr Ingham speak of a kind of fish by product can you explain?She lso explain black strap molasses good for bacteria but not necessarely for fungi..

[@waynebusse6376]

Has anyone worked with fairy rings to use to enhance crop lands? I have a veg farm with heavy clay loam soils and have been chopping large quantities of grass and briers to add to the surface to conserve moisture and control weeds. For the last couple years I have been adding a 12'' deep windrow of this to my beds and tilling this in and I have seen a great plant response to this method. I don't have the time or resources to make huge amounts of compost and then applying it so this method is working great. Is this a bad practice?

[@jasontoolan3816]

Thank you Peter McCoy and SFWS. May I use these videos content to further the cause, and your success? Given due credit.

[@iamthewelcher]

WOW ! Congratulations, even Dr Elaine is getting "context" banners! After all l, What would we all do without out them!?

[@varindersra]

That's interesting, @ 23:00 he mentioned Trichoderma as a compost activator, but in SFW course Trichoderma is recommended not to be used unless you have an outbreak of pathogenic fungus, as it will wipe out all beneficial fungus. I see a contradiction here, can anyone explain?

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@Varinder Singh Thank you for your comment. Please email [e-mail] so we can address your question fully.

[@zezanone3425]

question: are all dark septate fungi than endophytes?

[@evosbudi6934]

Good fungi for soil is anerobic or aerobic?

[@sarbsukhsingh8347]

Hello, i am really fascinated by your farming practices and I am getting positive vibes watching your videos. Would love to try out regenrative method as i am tired of using chemicals on my land. But before that i have few questions. 1. How many times a year you are able to produce and sell through this method. 2. How long will it take to rejuvinate a soil with organic carbon levels below 0.80. 3. Can this farming method prove to be more profitable for really small scale farmers(less than 10 acres) who are stuck in monocroping producing just rice and wheat in a year. 4. Where can i get proper guidance, as i am financially unable to pay for your online program which is worth 100s of dollar. 5. Is there any hope for small scale indian farmers like me, through this method or is it only for farmers who own hunreds and thousands of acres.🙏

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Check out Charles Dowding on KZbin.👍

[@gordonstewart8258]

Also check out Understanding Ag , a presentation titled “Carbonomics” with Keith Berg, and Dale Strickler. Hope these help. Are you aware of India’s Water Cup? That will be close to home for you. Good luck on your journey

[@sarbsukhsingh8347]

@@gordonstewart8258 thanks to both of you,i will check. Plus water cup initiative you re referring to is great for hilly regions(like southern india), but i am from punjab(north india) its a fertile plain with No elevation at all. So there is no room for water to flow off. Rain will stay wherever it falls. Green revolution from 70,s has messed our soil, tillage and chemical inputs are increading year by year (puddling also), we are pumping more underground water than anywhere else in the world(for paddy). We are on our last legs.

[@soilfoodwebschool]

Hello and thank you for wanting to take a big step and eventually move away from farming with chemicals. Please email your questions to us at [e-mail], and our team will help answer some of your questions. The replys in the comments are also great resources, what a wonderful community!

[@sarbsukhsingh8347]

@@soilfoodwebschool thanks for the replying🙏

[@miramirez3574]

❤️‍🔥

[@amiensarabellis8391]

What about harnessing citizen science projects?

[@YuriiKostenko]

Many thanks to Peter! Excellent presentation of this complicated topic!

[@chipsramek3868]

It's NOT complicated it You don't look at it through Scientifically Blurred Eyes.

[@growingwithfungi]

😊💚🙏🍄

[@chestnut4860]

I'm very concerned about bias here, especially when he starts almost humanizing the fungy as intentionally helping others. When it was mentioned that plants "saturated" with fertilizer no longer accept fungy it was pretty quickly glossed over, assuming natural fertilizer is being used what is the downside to not using fungy?

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@Chestnut You may be interested to watch these videos on how the Soil Food Web Approach works: promo.soilfoodweb.com/jul23s-erb/#how-it-works and here are examples of real world implementation: promo.soilfoodweb.com/jul23s-erb/#highlights

[@HigherEnergyPermaculture]

You really need a better mic

[@billiebruv]

Seems fine. You need a blue toof speaker

[@Leo-eb1wl]

These context warnings are becoming ridiculous. These days you only have to mention water or rain and KZbin slaps a context about climate change.

[@randalmoroski1184]

When scientists talk science the knowledge is wonderful! But,evolution, just sounds like dogma.?