We Can Do This Podcast: A Conversation with John Kempf

[@brianboe2650]

It never get old hearing what John has to say. What a great Man!

[@KissTheGround]

Hi Brian, Thanks for listening!

[@hosoiarchives4858]

He is a great man

[@CoastalSunFarm]

Kempf is a legend and we have so much respect for him! The whole idea that birthed our farm is from the understanding of how crucial regenerative farming is to continue sustaining life. Thank you for bringing this podcast to light! Much Love!

[@jjime1175]

I have been working with and using AEA products and we have seen a 100% improvement in fruit production as well as great customer satisfaction on the quality and flavor of our fruit, it has been highly praised as the best tasting by our customers. Our goal is highly nutrient rich fruit for health. I never miss an opportunity to listen to John

[@Zenthanol]

31:35 Plants have nitrate transporters and create nitrate as a natural process, even beneficial microbes like mycorrhizae produce and exchange them in plant root cells*. I studied aphid biology in college and aphids do not rely heavily on nitrogenous materials as their symbiotic microbes synthesize many of their essential amino acids using the sugars (sucrose) they digest**, and this is also true for whiteflies and leafhoppers that share a common ancestor as Hemiptera. Also insects are very good at sequestering nutrients, digesting proteins and detoxifying plant defenses their gut microbiome plays a major role***. Also Marmorated Stink Bugs (34:13) are not beetles, they're Hemiptera like aphids and whiteflies, so it was odd to hear them listed together. *The potential role of Mucoromycotina 'fine root endophytes' in plant nitrogen nutrition, 2022, Physiologia Plantarum **Honeydew sugars and osmoregulation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, 1997, Journal of Experimental Biology ***Mechanisms and ecological consequences of plant defence induction and suppression in herbivore communities, 2015, Annals of Botany

[@timkinrade9533]

Hero

[@turke6756]

John is truly the man learned so much from him

[@KissTheGround]

Thanks for listening!

[@bumblebiology7033]

Look at my new garden tour I learned from listening to this

[@ttanne7838]

Getting government into farming any more than it is is a bad idea.