Jeff Lowenfels - The Updated Soil Food Web 

Jeff's enthusiasm has always been unmatched. Thanks for the content Tad.

100% agree with focusing on useful information like producing food without destroying the soil.

This was educational and humorous, the perfect symbiosis for learning.

Great video. Clones don't grow tap roots. Which I found very important for skunk and cheese. I think the tap root has a lot to do with bacteria and getting down towards water table. Why does the mother smell so much better than clones? So I now grow from seed down by the fen. Been looking at the different groups of fungi and bacterial. Grasslands, hardwoods, softwoods, and sand all have different groups of bacteria and fungus. Different carbons for different bacteria and fungi. You can take clones from same plant then plant in different areas and get different taste and smell. The white lumps on clover roots harbor bacteria and that is what actually fixes the nitrogen.

Jeff explaining and his enthusiasm is like out of a kid's book. Love it🤙

Your enthusiasm is like your subject infectious thank you for your hard work and sharing your knowledge

Absolutely amazing information. I have Geoff's books but not read them all yet😂.👌👍

I feel enlightened, thank you and I will "plant an extra row"

Amazing. Ty!

What an amazing presentation

Great show do much knowledge thank you bro I've learned so much watching your videos got time is greatly appreciated fam. Happy growing...

Fantastic work Jeff! Just yesterday I completed Dr Elaine's course and they really could use your caliber of images and explanation. I'm sure I'm not the first to say that. Only suggestion: lose McD images as "American food" especially in an organic context. That stuff is not food.

Hello Jeff, I will excitedly tune in to your "lord of the roots". It will be a great leap from my general and food micro classes at the local land grant /school studied for pre vet med curriculum.wow.... jeff...far out something new /to contemplate....then what ..more to work into the organic farming /process....right or wrong. Dennis WOW endophytic NOW to rhizophagy.....I will TRY to stretch my brain cells. ..Dennis

Whow!! Beautiful talk with very nice pictures that help me understand the message! Thanks very much!

Bacillus subtillus has been available for gardeners for several years. I use a product called Cease, about 75 bucks a gallon. I have sitting on my desk in front of me an 8 oz bottle of Air-N whixh contains azotobacter and azospirillum.

Excellent video. you are second to none

thank you Tad and Jeff

Revolutionary information

Had to take a double take at the title and realize this is narrated by the Lord of The Roots himself!

Awesome awesome thanks you for helping me brush up and learn some new things

This is right up my alley. Good stuff

🤯Great episode! Mind blowing

Such an excellent video!

Love it. thanks tad thanks Jeff

You have anything to say about keanumycins or the existential threat they represent to the global Rhizosphere if (when) they are deployed commercially? And what this series doesn't focus on as much as I think it really should, is the Carbon Cycle. Carbon-12 is Life. Plant tissues, microbes, animals, insects, it's all carbon-12, and the more of it is in living bodies and decaying below ground, the less of it is in the atmosphere. Literally no one is connecting these dots. I've looked, for a decade. I used what I learned from your series to turn dead soil into living soil and I can grow anything literally anywhere on the planet by converting any organic waste into castings and frass, then spreading that material in thin layers to build up the Rhizosphere over time. It works for 100% of that 90% of plants that create a symbiotic bond with microbes in the soil. And most of those that don't also thrive in or adjacent to a healthy Rhizosphere. I'd really like to see more common awareness of the fact that all Life is carbon, and more Life alive means less carbon in the atmosphere. That really helps bring into focus what a sustainable path actually looks like for global agriculture. We can't keep on digesting 3x the amount of foreign ecosystem to sustain human life outside of natural systems. There's nothing left. A new perspective that focuses on abundant life, thriving ecosystems, and the management of excess production for human consumption is essential. Efficiently collecting the totality of any parcel of land's harvest potential should never have been the goal. Life costs Life. Failing to recognize that is one of the core failings in understanding that have created the carbon crisis and that has resulted in an ongoing insect apocalypse. We need to reform global agricultural models around the management of problematic excess or this carbon crisis will just continue to grow into a catastrophe with no solution. People like you have the keys to that vehicle.

Hello Jeff Great content, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Just one question, are your books available in French?

Fabulous tutorial...

I have the first one my friend thank you it's already awesome

Package received Monday this time ther was something in it thanks for the extra 16 plant count gel.

So do the bacteria reproduce outside the root? Then go back into the root? Some plants don't like bacteria dominated soil. They would rather have fungal dominated. Makes a difference in grasslands and giving plants a hay smell.

Seems both pronunciations are accepted

Great episode! When discussing the bacteria that resides in the seed I was wondering if the common practice of sprouting the seed in a cup of water would have a negative effect on that bacteria? Are they going out into the water? Can they be saved by watering that "seed cracking" water into the soil matrix...?Great episode, Tad.

Organic for life

I just bought Teaming With Microbes but Thriftbooks sent me the 2006, 196 page original instead of the updated 2010 version. What is the difference and should I just get the 220 page 2010 updated one

Thanks for the info Jeff love your videos and books

Super interesting episode! I would love to get some sources of the scientific studies/papers Jeff is taking his knowledge from :)

I hope the distracting graphics and odd photos and spelling mistakes get upgraded to the standards of this great data. Love the data!

I just want to know then if the bacteria is inside the plant where there are no exudates since those only form at the root, how and what do they eat then?

That slime in your mouth in the morning is actually beneficial bacteria for your gut and should always be downed with a glass of water before brushing your teeth 😉

Why isn't the audio working

The Japanese food reference hahahahahahaha

A++

What does drought do to all this?

Would it be safe to assume that the store brought organic manure/compost bags you can buy from a hardware store to be fairly inert? Loads of wood chips, etc. The reason I ask this question is that of the 3 components used to go into mixing a soil substrate utilising sphagnum peat moss, vermiculite/perlite and manure/compost two of the three parts are considered inert and if store brought manure/compost isn't great to begin with would it be safe to consider it inert and therefore the entire substrate inert? I am wanting to apply Steve Solomon's formula to this newly mixed substrate assuming that the cec is 30 (I think you mentioned your tests came back with a cec of 28 utilising a similar mix) without wrecking the soil. All of my inputs come with an analysis, so I am confident in the values I am putting in to balance the soil. However, just not sure about the manure/compost part of this problem. I also assume organic matter is zero and apply an input that contains nitrogen at a rate equal to phosphorous input within Steve's formula. First time growing, let alone organically, after coming across your podcast. I have read the intelligent gardener and all of Jeff lowenfels books, so I can already hear you saying "test your soil," lol. I'm just trying to save funds.

How fast do appropriate fungi exudates cause bact to double in nos. Every 15 min. Dwnnis

Is anyone doing the research on herbicides and how much each differant one effects the ryzophagy cycle?

Hi, where can I pay for the books and also can i get them in soft copies after payment?

There's no audio.

Don’t panic it’s organic 😊

Do/i/need magnifying glass to/see/plant/micro sheaths? Thank you Mr lord of the roots. Where/do/I get the pix of exudative attracting microbes/and fungi.

You wonder how plants manage in hydroponics

I would not think it /very/annoying. But funjai is incorrectly spelled acc to microbiology textbooks I have read. And I will add this tidbit. I have/never seen the word spelled with ... jai. And heck i have been 1/2 way around the world, been to 2 county fairs and a bull fight in my short life on this planet.. 22:55

ROS vs ROAAAAAS

Wow. Using a title from, and starts with an image from Dr. Elaine (Soil Food Web School), but gives no credit. Nice..☹

He’s not kidding: rhizophagy does not have a Wikipedia page

The little Asians 😂😂

It really hurts my ears when someone calls fungi fandjai. It's just so annoying

please do an episode with Mike Krady (@slownickel)