Posts Tagged: microbes

CFSA on Farm Intensive

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Organic Management Strategies and Soil Health These are images for the Compost portion of the on farm intensive session I’m teaching for the 2024 CFSA Sustainable Agriculture Conference. My focus is on the building and use of the Johnson-Su Bioreactors for producing fungal dominant compost which is great for making extracts that can be easily… Read more »

Guest on Kara Kroeger’s Land Food Life Podcast

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Back in the spring of 2023, Kara asked if I’d like to be a guest on her podcast series revolving around the interconnectedness of regeneration as it applies to our personal health, both spiritual and physical, the land on this beautiful planet, and all the creatures, including our non-human brothers and sisters, that live on… Read more »

Presenting at the 2023 CFSA Sustainability Conference

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This year’s Carolina Farm Steward Association’s Sustainability Conference was another great success. I was given the honor to share my passion about the mechanisms of biological fertility which I’ve taken a deep dive into over the last year after hearing Dr. James White speak about endophytic bacteria and the rhizophagy cycle at last years ACRES… Read more »

Why All the Pushback on Regenerative Agriculture?

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As I’ve delved deeper into soil science and wholistic, regenerative agriculture, I’ve been surprised by the amount of resistance to the practice, and skepticism of the results put up by those in the environmental community, and the land grant university systems doing much of the formal ag research. This week, I’ve come across two examples… Read more »

Books

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From Soil to Stomach, and the contents therein… Updated October 2022. While working at the farm, I’ve listened to a handful of books that link up well together and wanted to share here. It may seem a little curious to have the first book on a recommended list for farmers to be about systems thinking,… Read more »