Assessing Soil Health Using a Microscope with Meredith Leigh 

OMG, how can you be so smart. If I had a teacher like you I'd be a great scientist by now. Cant thank you enough for the knowledge and how you explained things. Huge love from India...

This young lady is going places. Smart, knowledgeable, excellent speaker. Great lecture!

Shout out to whomever edited this. The timing of the slides are very good.

Thank you. Such great information. You have provided great pictures of what to look for. I have followed a lot of Elaine's videos but your pics rock. Would love to see additional work that you have available. Thanks again.

Wow entremely indepth, as a vemicompost beginer producer I am super gratefull fot this knowledge.

Truly excellent. I am a beginner with compost tea, microbiology and sustainable agriculture. Having read books, articles and watched about 30 hours of videos (including Dr Elaine Ingham), you can believe me when I say this is, by far, the best education on the subject to date. It is informative, thorough, simple, and covers all the first time requirement and beyond that will be encountered and need to be understood. Sorry to go on, but the filming and sound are also very well put together. The slides are especially illuminating too. Thanks, for your efforts and sharing. Very, very much appreciated. My interest in this is that I am trying a new approach for for my roses, in pots, in the tropics, on my roof garden, in one of the most polluted capital cities in the world, (so a few challenges to overcome). Im a reasonably experienced gardener, (in UK), but roses here (in the entire city) are rare (i have seen zero, anywhere). My 2 attempts, with intensive (traditional) care have resulted in decaying health and slow dying of all of my 90, then 70 rose plants, after their initial flourish for 3-6 months. I still have high hopes of another bash, re-invigorated, with the compost tea/microbes approach, and armed with my new microscope.

Absolutely loved this video! Can’t wait for part 2!

Fantastic presentation and information. Now I know the microbiome science behind the practice of No Till and more about the mechanism of soil carbon sequestration. Putting carbon back in the soil is nectar for building soil structure. And its great how you love this stuff.

Ah yes... just past my bedtime.... lets start this video that will be to interesting to not finish..... love this stuff : )

This is excellent information and thank you very much for sharing!! You have clearly explained how to distinguish between food and bad guy !! Awesome

Ms. Leigh is a *wonderful* instructor and presenter. Any high-level college would be proud to have her on their faculty.

Incredible video. She had an answer for every question. A lot of good information here, I'm definitely going to be googlin half of this.

Very informative! Thanks. Looking forward to the rest.

Watching this with my kids. We just got a microscope and good compost and learning as fast as we can and having fun

I love Dr.Elaine Ingham. She changed my life for free! I must say youre a little bit easier to follow and i dig your eloquent simplicity

Really good instruction and packed with usable content. Thank you for clearing my lens on some imports points

Thank you for your explanations.. You are a Great theacher.. Im from Indonesia.

Great video! I'm excited to bust out my microscope for the garden this spring!

This is a great video! Thank you!

Ohh... cant wait for the next episode!

Who is this Woman! Thank you for your passion.

Okay, this is like, the fifth video I've watched from you guys that have provided excellent and informative presentations. Guess it's time I subscribed.

it was more easy for me to understand the concept hearing you,more clear and crisp voice than dr.ingham.tq for the video

26:55 I think the bacteria make the conditions which allow the fungi to actually pull the matter together! Super neat!!! It was from another swf/lwf video I remember hearing the process broken down.

Mycelium growth - I use a sugar water solution spray on the mycellium a few times a day. Carbon dioxide, moist and high humidity atmosphere too. Plastic liner covering the mycelium with holes poked in it for some oxygen flow for the mycelium. This is my first time growing magic mushrooms.

Amazing video, thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for sharing!

If this info is accurate and valid, it's really excellent. Thx.

This is amazing. Keep it up!

Thanks. This is helpful.

I keep a list of everyone that provides me with free education, materials and resources, so that if I'm ever successful I know who to thank (with money) lol adding this to it.

Incredible video I love this so much! 🌿✅📷 Subscribed

I'm absolutely enthused by this approach to agriculture - what an outstanding paradigm shift in understanding. But, although I'm familiar with microscopes (micropetrology - rock mineralogy studies) the cost of a suitable microscope does give me something to think on. So, I'm wondering if there are any reliable macroscopic indicators that will help navigate compost management? Now I'm going to read the other comments and responses 🙂

01:58 Índice general del módulo 02:58 Relevancia de la observación al microscopio como práctica de manejo de suelo 4:25 Listado de elementos observables 07:27 Bacterias 08:37 Protozoos 11:11 Hongos 12:20 Actinobacterias y oomycetos 12:58 Micorrizas 16:25 Nemátodos 17:29 Morfología para diferenciar Nemátodos 24:07 Otros elementos no vivos 28:38 Aprendizajes de Meredith

More please!

Wow great presentation! Thanks!

What a great presentation! Good luck.

Wow, You amaze me. You are so knowledgeable.

We should have some like you on every organic farm!

Brilliant !!! So very true too

Thank-you! From Littlehampton in England. What sort of magnification are these pictures, please.

Thanks for sharing

Brilliant!! What an eye opener, thanks so much.

I just ordered a microscope. I highly recommend all farmers own one

Great information!! Where can I find pictures to identify different bacteria, nematodos, protozoa, etc..? Thank you!!!

Regarding turning compost too much- The Johnson-Su Composting Bioreactor may be a solution. To do it properly, worms are added to finish. The compost tends to be fungi dominated. Of course if you choose to then make compost extract for tea, the bubbling will shred fungal strands. There must be a happy medium in terms of bubble size which allows you to extract biology without shredding it to bits. Seems most tea makers prefer vigorous bubbling to extract as much biology as possible. I suspect that might not be the best approach. Anyone have any insight on bubble size & the time factor for extraction?

Damn I wish I was in that class right now💯

What magnification are these images at?

Thank you

Please advise the specs of the microscope ( what’s the range of magnifications).. thanks

Any recommendations on the microscope? Not all can see bacteria and such.

Wow, HUMUNGUS. Havnʻt heard that in a while...

What kind of microscope do you guys use at what settings?

Is there a specific type of slide you use for your microscope ?

Great presentation... By the way, what type of Microscope would you recommend that I get for doing the practical work? Any suggestions?

I just sprayed Endomycorrhizal fungi spores before spreading grass seed. 48 hours? Cool to know.

Who can still plough or dig or apply biocides after seeing this underground world?! Thank you!

awesome. i'll be back.

can i ask if there is a text that provides information and diagrams of the soil food web and information provided in this presentation?

Great stuff. I just started looking with my 5 years old daughter into what's going on in our wormbox via microscope. We found some crazily fast moving nematodes and some other specimen... Is there any sort of image search for identifying what it is? Using Google image search is not that great on it yet... Maybe there is something more professional?

How can i get de PPS ? Thks

Will there be a part 2?

@27:25 she gets so excited baby Nemo's 😊 that's what it's all about

Where can I buy some of those microscopes?

Symbiotic relationship working smarter not harder .

I want a microscope now

How do you aerate clay soil?

you plan on writing a book ?

I cannot get my local Master Gardeners from my Extension office to understand this. They kept dismissing compost tea as a hoax and insisted on soil samples sent to the state university that does not address these things. I care more about the life in soil than some arbitrary NPK numbers. We need more science being taught at that level. When I mentioned Dr Elaine Ingham they never heard of her and could care less. They regurgitated their pamphlet literature and cited their own failed field studies which they wouldn't admit had no controls nor examination of compost or compost tea or soil under the microscope.

This is god's work. Thank you for the upload.

Hi Dr. Elaine Ingham is now at soilfoodweb.com

Living Farm Soil should collaborate with Matt Powers to regenerate your soil

My neighbors complained about my weeds and the city says their a fire hazard but it's all green. Trying to build my soil around a bunch plant nazis is sad.

She seems the type to murder someone over disrupting soil. Lol. Great Video. Im definitely feeling more confident in keeping living soil.

Consctructve feedback: if every other tings you show is accompanied by "you wont see this" "dont focus on this" "this is not that important". change your presentation

Pooping? "no shit"?

We don't really understand how energy-density waves form spiral arms in stages of a galaxy's life, but it doesn't mean it's "none of our business." If "how round things roll better than square things roll" was none of our business, you'd have a hard time getting to church.

I hate hearing otherwise intelligent people talking about carbon sequestration.

you need to set up your microphones to stop background noise information killing sound feed back keep your sound away from any thing noisy your view screens can destroy your video pick up as well it all very distraction for seeing and hearing and concentration be aware of background sound and intense background light ...... this stuff is too important to allow bad sound and bad images be aware of it it causes energy sapping irritation

Ok, a women who talks soil is .....so .......hot....