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 »
Posts Tagged: soil
Guest on Kara Kroeger’s Land Food Life Podcast
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
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 »
Staying Current
The word around us is in a state of constant change. Understanding the world around us keeps us informed to make better decisions. Here’s my latest attempt to support trusted media outlets efforts to stay current. Spoiler: Toxic substances are bad for our health. We should stop using them. The media can help us get… Read more »
Why All the Pushback on Regenerative Agriculture?
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 »