What Makes Soil Healthy? | Soil Food Web School

How are soil and dirt different? In this talk from the Soil Regen Summit 2022, Dr. Elaine Ingham talks about what makes up healthy soil for crops to fully thrive!
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Dr. Elaine Ingham from the Soil Food Web School discusses the difference between beneficial organisms in healthy soil in contrast to dirt. What is dirt and what is soil? Organic matter and organisms are two very important parts in discerning what is healthy, nutrient dense soil versus dirt.
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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 Organisms in soil
06:03 Organisms in the Soil Food Web
07:35 Soil VS Dirt
14:12 Minerals in Soil
19:05 Identifying organisms in soil
12:10 Fungi & Bacteria
34:40 Flagellate
36:35 Beneficial Protozoa
38:49 Beneficial Nematodes
39:17 How to obtain nutrients
42:29 Benefits to our health
#SoilHealth #SoilBiome #SoilFoodWeb

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[@PermacultureRC]

Hello! I wrote you a letter by email on September 15. I am a graduate of courses on soil food web. I haven't received an answer yet. Maybe my email got into spam? How can I contact you?

[@soilfoodwebschool]

Hi, sorry you did not hear from us. Please contact us at [e-mail]

[@Rkdawla]

Love it! I am in Mizoram, NE India, Myanmar border. Have been watching Dr. Elaine's videos 20 nos so far. And still watching with a notebook. Can't spare course fee but I started A CHANGE in my farm. God bless!

[@marksavoia3687]

We created a group that guides with the truth and establishes justice accordingly. (Al-Araf 7:181) WE....W. Double You.....E.Equality (USA Constitution PreAmble)

[@Rkdawla]

@@marksavoia3687 Thanks. I feel blessed that I can join the autumn/fall live webinar series of Dr. Elaine's.

[@RickarooCarew]

✌️🙏☯️🙏

[@kenjido69]

Awesome! My gf is Mizo, cool to see someone practicing this over there. What do you grow?

[@Rkdawla]

@@kenjido69 I am starting with Papaya and Orange.

[@user-px5yc8bs1j]

Thank you Dr.Ingham.Fantastic !

[@B01]

This is why Dr. Ingham is such an absolute legend, taking current research and bringing it into her own working models (SFW). Giving us natural farmers/growers the real tools for success regardless of source. If it's backed by science and biology seems like it's backed by SFW. Although I have heard from many SFW content creators/consultants she is known for always staying up to date with the best available published research, this was proof so to say hahah This is quite simply some of the biggest rounds of ammunition in the fight against those who bash the SFW foundation as cult like or in it for the money. Or who say it's forced "her way or the highway". For someone to take outside research they had no part in, work it into current courses just goes to show that it's all about the science and what really works. The absolute lock tight grip the chemical ag world has on their CUSTOMERS, gives such irony to the word cult used by any of them towards organic/natural farming STUDENTS lol To see multiple sources, towards the end of the video, really meant a lot and completely sealed the deal for me to sign up for foundation and microscopy. Really made me incredibly (🤓🤓🤓) happy to see/hear Ingham and the rhizophagy cycle together on the same screen at long last. Not that long all things considered since the research is so new on the cycle aspect. Rhizophagy itself over a decade old but the cycling is a really new study from year or two I believe (as she mentioned, from Rutgers).

[@bjb0808]

I love this. Can never get enough of Elaine Ingham. 💕

[@irondiver292]

Years and years ago you book started me on a journey. Thank you for helping me connect.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I’ve got outstanding dirt-excellent geology. But all the organics either decomposed, floated away or blew away decades ago. The previous owner scraped the surface bare every year for 10 years. My work is cut out for me. We’ve started covering the soil with shredded wood. But I’m really trying to get legumes growing through the wood. I’m introducing a bunch of fungi from local sources. The other day I discovered mushrooms growing up through my garden soil. Something good is happening out there.

[@JL_Loki]

Thank you for making all this available. I have always love plants but doesn't have an opportunity of having a space. But all these lessons are so helpful that I am applying what I learn to how I grow my plants. Thank you once again.

[@ripudamansingh4854]

I am from India and the main point right now is many of the youth in India btw age 25 to 30 are trying to make career in soil health by just creating the soil much more living to balance the nutrition not in soil but in our body as well which can directly impact the nature an human health as well.. So dr elaine we are very thankfull to you and the request which is coming out from us plz uplaod all your lecture from basic to advance to make soil life, ecosystem, tress , air, underground water back to it's normal stage . It's a request 🙏

[@RickarooCarew]

she is talking about the alkalai metals living things require to metabolize... being fixed through the symbiotic relationship between plants and microrhyzome critters and bacteria in soil ❤️ nitrogen, carbon dioxide.. from which CHON is built through photosynthesis.. those gases are brought in from the air... all life is built on CHON... building chlorophyll requires both sources... thank you for this excellent lecture 🙏 so... your image of soil vs dirt... my back yard is definitely dirt .. I can't grow crabgrass.. I live in the Sierra Estrella in Arizona... we are planning to turn it into soil... muchas gracias ✌️❤️✌️

[@newearth1912]

Feed the microbes, and they will poop new soil! 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠😃

[@solarroyo02]

This is very fascinating! Congratulation, Dr. Elaine on your success, a great contributing to our planet.

[@newearth1912]

💛🦠🥗 Another GREAT Presentation!!

[@DsScope]

Love the information provided, currently going theough the SFW courses and loving every minute of it. Thank you for sharing the information! Solid hosting as always!

[@shammcglue3453]

Thank you Elaine for all your hard work and dedication to the soilfoodweb! great information

[@yassinhassan8391]

Thanks

[@myka6827]

so intresting. many thanks for this sharing🥰

[@jennyansell42]

Wow thankyou! You have just answered so many questions of How? I read recently that if you mix your saliva with a seed before planting it that plant will gather the nutrients that you are difficient of . HOW? You just gave the answer! Just amazing thankyou!

[@HeliIsoAho]

Fabulous! Amazing how nutrient cycling happens in soils in three different ways (as we know now)! It it so fascinating to see all these organisms under microscope and learn about their functions. Thanks to Dr Elaine's Soil Food Web School :-)

[@sharonloves]

Thank you. 👏👏👏

[@markread8650]

Y’all make my plants happy, oh yeah, me too

[@victortiempo]

The amount of sunlight absorbed by pplant have it's equivalent absorption of soil nutrients And water that causes soil compact too

[@raincoast_earthlab8796]

Great stuff. 👍

[@MrMilio]

@18:58 Is there a video about the vide from "yesterday"?

[@mikeymike3440]

Good job

[@victortiempo]

Plant's osmotic mechanism is the most factor on compacting soil

[@Volintena]

I am from Croatia, Europe and want to buy a microscope but don't know which one is good for amater (looking for not too expensive one). Any link(s) will help. Thanks!

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[@B01]

Amscope or Omax, both can find around $250 in US so I'd imagine somewhat similar in EU. You'll want to get a compound binocular (or trinocular preferably but this adds to the cost) microscope with an LED, iris condenser with adjustable height, 4x-100x objectives (you'll mostly use the 4,10 and 40), binocular 10xWF eyepieces and mechanical stage (to be able to follow the lil critters around) Amscope has the B270-KT Omax has the M82ES-SC100-LP100 They are both kits which include everything to get started immediately

[@blagoeres]

Can you make a video about fixing and improving sandy soil infested with southern root knot nematodes and make it suitable for growing perrenials.

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[@dr.froghopper6711]

Wow! Rhizophagy! Predatory actions by root tips. What a concept! I never would have thought about that. I wonder what attractant the root tips exude that keeps the bacteria coming back for more. Is it a “pleasant” interaction for the bacteria? Those exudates must be some dynamite goodies!

[@khezhariqbal1478]

very good

[@wildmanofthenorth1598]

Light show at the roots

[@arkansascracker]

Man of the Red Earth Arkansas checking in

[@wildmanofthenorth1598]

What temperature is the Petri dish

[@wildmanofthenorth1598]

So a certain temperature tells you when you need to introduce air to the compost?

[@RickarooCarew]

good question.. maybe we can find out.. ✌️

[@B01]

The temperature tells you how long it needs to be maintained before everything's safely rendered out (the disease causers). The higher the temp (with strict limits) the less time needed. The lower the temp, the more time needed. Since I haven't taken the courses I don't have direct numbers/times but it has been covered in one of her vids before if you wanted a quick introduction to the concept. It was something along the lines of needing to turn after 1 day at 160-170°, 2days 150-160° and 3days 140-150°. Those are absolutely NOT exact figures but it was a formula along those lines, so just to give ya an idea

[@B01]

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[@kencaruso4037]

👨‍🌾🌱👍

[@wildmanofthenorth1598]

What's the temperature best for the production of Methane

[@billiebruv]

Anaerobic conditions are more conducive to methane production, above freezing point, re thawing permafrost

[@khensykobane1546]

😢

[@andyourlittledog]

I’ve been looking into willow chips to prevent apple scab in my small backyard orchard. Would the salicylic acid disrupt the good guys in my soil?

[@soilfoodwebschool]

I am not 100% certain, as the concentration of the SA is an important factor, but I did find this paper that indicates a synergy between SA and soil bacteria: www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/7/1018

[@wildmanofthenorth1598]

Oh soil like a sponge

[@lmpastoral]

I'm afraid her discussion on minerals is complete rubbish. To use world average soil chemical makeup denies the fact that many soils are well below average and deficiencies of minerals are very widespread all over the world. If we did what she says and stop using mineral fertilisers 3/4 of the worlds population would die.