Great video! We are both in our 80's and are all about healthy aging. For us, eating a whole-food plant-based is a big part of it! Our goal is to "Die Young...As Late as possible!" Need to maintain a strong body, calm mind, & positive outlook. We're doing some research for our new healthy-aging advice RU-vid channel to inspire others. Learned from you. TY, Bob & Fran
I'm expectantly awaiting this amazing book! It keeps looking better! Such a great complement to the Advanced Permaculture Student online course. I have read a lot of soil books but this is definitely the most visual and easiest to understand.. and with so much cutting edge information!
I almost didn't share this because I have so much more to say on all this now lol. The end of the book tied it all together for me at a different level. I need to make another version of this presentation and release it :) this is from a summit earlier in the summer.
I just found you, and I'm sad I didn't find you years ago! You are such a great teacher and obviously very passionate about the subject. Instant subscribe.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FANNNNNTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Folks, I have been a student of Matt’s for years and I love him and what I have learned!! Thank you again, Matt!!! Rave recommend :)
So much great stuff! I'm not quite through the whole video yet, too many notes to take. But I just had a realization - now I know why the compost at one of my garden plots isn't making it to the last bay and has a pvc chimney in it! The garden manager must being keeping up on the latest and greatest compost methods and that makes me feel good. Thanks Matt!
You just took my gardening it to another level ! Im getting your book no questions asked, you just destroyed my whole belief about ph in soil. I’m definitely going try and see how big of a difference there is with this method. Thanks Matt! The book looks AWSOME, simple but super catchy(at least for me) Great job!
I am having great success with no-turn thermal compost piles. Simply poked w chimneys and covered with a blanket of straw. No need for any turning as long as the pile is wet enough, and no need for pvc and other infrastructure. It has taken 45 days consistently to get back to ambient temps, 8 piles in the last year and a half! Then I add a small amount of the compost to wood chips and let sit for a year for perennial inoculate, and put the rest in the garden asap. Results are awesome and indisputable..
Just finished building 4 Johnson-Su Bioreactors. So exhausted but thanks for your encouragement am going to try collecting woody material for next year's Bioreactors. Yes, to fungal domination and no bare ground. He he he Recently watched Kiss the Ground, your book is perfect timing for how to do this. Love your five cousins too.
My kids laugh about me getting excited about my garden. It’s all good though. When I make them listen to some of what you say, their eyes and ears raise up :) I’m smiling with you! 😂 and they’ll hear some of your course too!!👍🏼
I put some leaves in a square planter I used to collect water in until I let it freeze and it got a crack in it. I was having trouble with dry conditions and I got that leaf "stuff" and it was black. It had turned into this wonderful stuff so I spread it around. This year I got my neighbor's leaves to pile it all up together and let sit for months and I really don't know how long. I want more of it though.
100 % I want organic food jam packed with nutrients. I want all my animals to be o. E vegetarians and be healthier. Greetings from Bgaria. I am watching learning and putting your methods to practice. It's working. THAK YOU!!
wow, amazing video. Thank you for sharing great knowledge brother, the soil is an ecosystem in and of itself! It is all part of a beautiful self-sustaining cycle, mother nature IS our greatest teacher :-)
#Sadhguru🙏 #JourneyForSoil #UNCCDCOP15 #ConsciousPlanet #SaveSoilSaveEnvironment Enriched soil is the biggest wealth and security for any country. I request our government to take active action and bring soil friendly policy as soon as possible. #SaveSoil
Question on Cowpeas & Termination: depending on the rhizobium you inoculate with, your microbes will share it laterally among plants EVEN BEFORE it's the classic termination timeframe. You can grow your peas out, but in general you want to cut everything early because it's about building soil not finding a perfect time to harvest seeds: you want the C4 grasses young so they breakdown quick, so you can do the classic terminating of the cowpeas at flowering or just before. Either way, the idea that you need to terminate them to release the N is only partially right: bradyrhizobium can share laterally and that only would increase with maturation.
Please provide a journal article re: the nitrogen exchange. There is scant evidence of Nitrogen transmission between intercropped plants unless both plants are alive. It is also minimal based on radioactive tracing in the receptor plant. New info based on a different trial would be good news. www.gardenmyths.com/legumes-add-nitrogen-soil/ I find cowpeas an odd choice since it is a warm weather crop & if the fall weather turns against you (too cold & wet) because you planted in the fall to get a winter kill, the cowpeas may never sprout, but rather seed rot in the field. Your lynch pin in the 5 cousins is weak with cowpeas. Austrian Winter Peas are designed as a cold weather, over winter covercrop which will sprout in the fall providing snipped tasty salad sprouts with a sweet pea flavor & lettuce like texture for your own pleasure (or you could fall harvest some greens for poultry.) The Austrian Winter peas come back in the spring still in the pre-flower shoot stage providing yet more greens. You get the sprout food benefit & keep a living root in the ground to build soil life which is largely the point of planting a fall cover crop for winter. Also dead plants can't apparently exchange much nitrogen. The amount deposited below soil seems questionable if they've expressed it above ground to flower & fruit. But I await newer, better trial information. It also sounds like you may be tring to accomplish too much with an odd combination of warm weather crops in one fell swoop planted for a winter kill. If your looking for biomass & your in the right zone sorghum sudan grass can give you two cuttings. Follow with quick warm weather buckwheat in late summer for more biomass & flowers for pollinators. A duo of Austrian Winter Peas & Daikon radishes for on going Nitrogen till spring & the bio-drilling address issue and gives you a living root in the ground with the peas over winter. There is nothing wrong with succession cover cropping single or complimentary blends...more like individual cousins in succession who come to spend the summer & then two wretched in-laws who arrive for the holidays in the fall, don't leave till spring...but a least they'll house sit over the winter.
During a brief search yesterday I found the below info in an article. There appears to be some nitrogen fixing interaction between some of the 187 publicly available bradyrhizobial strains available and some few plants if the bradyrhizombium become endophytes within a living plant. Hard to say at this point how any grower could find the right innoculant from a seed company that would be correct for his peas/beans AND be the right bradyrhizobia to form endophytes with the other plants in a covercrop mix containing 4 other plant seeds. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01334/fully Corrected link - www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01334/full >>Additionally, some bradyrhizobial strains are capable of fixing nitrogen as endophytes of some plants (Piromyou et al., 2015). Growth-independent approaches have shown a broad distribution of bradyrhizobia associated with roots of many non-legume plants such as rice, maize and pines (Chaintreuil et al., 2000; Tan et al., 2001) and bradyrhizobia have been found in plant tumors (Rivas et al., 2004; Islam et al., 2008) and also in earthworm (Thakuria et al., 2010) and insect guts (Degli Esposti and Martinez Romero, 2017).
@@greghowle6303 Sorry about the bad link. I haven't gone much further with my search. It's clear to me that a blend or succesion covercrops tailored for your specific zone, season & goals is the best way to choose rather than use an odd mix of seeds that works for somebody in zone 9b based on the faith that you'll get the right strain bradyrhizobia in your innoculant. This site has years of research & field trials behind it if you need help with seed selection. smartmix.greencoverseed.com There's also a wealth of covercrop field trials & instructional vids on RU-vid by sustainable & organic growers from big growers to gardeners.
I would love to do have a recorded Zoom with you for my channel to talk about Regenerative Soil, and your book. My subscribers are mostly here in South Florida. I want the focus of my channel to move more in the regenerative direction, because I firmly believe this is the direction we all need to move. And the sooner the better! Please let me know if you can. 🌿
Great visuals-- Love all the pictures! I can't find the audible, do you have to watch the (5) videos BEFORE you can listen? Awesome information. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE. 🌱🦠🍃
Diego Footer modified Johnson Su by using wire instead of plastic, and putting a drip line on top on a timer .If possible add a couple lbs of worms after it cools to 80s faren. , along with what Matt recommends.
I recall a few stories that talked of Aliens or perhaps even humanity getting to the point where we no longer build buildings and ships, but rather grow them. I always thought that was a fascinating concept and what if?
Where can we find how Dr. Elaine Ingham recommends making compost? Matt Powers alludes to it but not with enough specificity to go out and try it in practice.
@@ThePermacultureStudent I just sold another to somebody here from youtube an hour ago. THANK YOU SIR! It's absolutely brilliant... & paradigm shifting!!!
I have heavy acidic clay soil. Im in El Yunque national rainforest in tropical Puerto Rico. Lots of erosion. Im working with vetiver grass, crotalaria(sunhemp), canavalia(jackbean), and pigeon peas. Lots of earth worms but still very little organic material. Going to start adding thermal compost and bioles.
I have watched dozens of these videos, people mention the water but they don't give us much information. You tell me if I'm wrong about any of this. Water is life, without water organic matter won't decompose. You can measure the PH in your water. Running water puts oxygen into the water, take a hose with good pressure and fill a five gallon bucket and when the water from the hose hits the water in the bucket you get air bubbles. Running streams, rivers and creeks have oxygen in the water that's why streams, rivers and creeks can support aquatic life, what about ponds and lakes? Ponds and lakes have aquatic plants that put oxygen in the water. Like the plants and trees on the land, they uptake carbon from the air and ground and produce oxygen. Untreated water from wells will grow algae if you let it sit in a bucket out of the sun, water can become anaerobic, well water has a lot of minerals. I have taken cuttings from trees and put them in a bucket of water and they have rooted to make new trees. You can take an avocado seed and root it in water. As important as soil is I believe water is just as important. I would like to see studies on water in the way you all have done with soil. I think about the elements of water, air, earth, fire. I equate fire to the sun and biochar, soil as earth, one element that you guys are adding other elements to in the way of organic matter changing the soil composition, can we do studies on water, carbon in the water, nitrogen and other minerals in the water and look for things to make our water more suitable for growing? You may have good soil but water coming from water treatment plants, is it possible that some of these chemicals they use to treat the water could be toxic to the life we are building up in our soil? It's a fair question because everything we are doing to create bio diversity in our soil could be wiped out with water. I'm on a well on my property so I can't experiment with it but I think someone should take that next step.
At 30:50 you say about adding wood ash for potassium, but caution that is is very alkaline. Burning wood doesn't create the potassium right.. so could you achieve the same goal of adding potassium by digging wood fibres/chips in your soil... but would the latter keep the soil acidic?
The term alkali comes from burning wood into alkali salts we initially called potash as in ashes in a pot. So, yes they are the epitome of the alkaline poster child ;) Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, so K is not created in the process: just refined and distilled. Wood chips have their own series of effects. I highly recommend you check out my book: Regenerative Soil. It has all this in-depth :) www.thepermaculturestudent.com/shop/regenerative-soil-science-amp-solutions-manual-pre-order
Matt, I have been doing hot compost for a few months, can my existing process be changed “midstream” and convert by introducing more wood chips and “browns” to promote fungal activity?
For sure but the length of time will go up as you at woodier substrates - often hot composts start regular, get blazing hot, and THEN day 3or 4 you add an equal amount of wood chips and then leave it a year. :)
Fantastic video, so much information. I have a question. I was thinking of using alfalfa as a cover for nitrogen fixing and as a fodder feed for my chickens and rabbits, but does it need tilling under when I finished with it ? Or can just chop and drop it and sow my following corn under the mulch?
Great question: select annual alfalfa when getting seeds and then terminate it in winter so it dies back fully (though if you have mild winters it could jump back if you aren't tilling it under - it's usually a perennial and the annual is a non-hardy summer type so that's why it's "annual" but it could regrow if it doesn't die back in winter fully.
Not so mild winters here, this 1 just past we had minus -10°c . But my plan was to plant the alfalfa in autumn and over winer it. I want to do little to no tilling. Ground was tilled originally but I would like to not do it again . Maybe over wintering perennial alfalfa is not the right opinion then, or maybe it could stay as a ground cover for the corn. What do u think?
Why do we want buckwheat to steal the nitrogen from cow peas?... it makes them work harder and build to eventually produce more? .... but then doesnt daikons and buckwheat just keep stealing either way? ... so, basically that keeps all the plants building off each other creating a bunch of nutrient exchange and microbial life? Is there a certain method to planting so many different cover crops on one bed? How to balance competition?
Hi Matt! I got your book and I'm loving it! I was wondering if I found a typo or if I misunderstood something, on page 195 the four tables for mixes of KNF solutions to use for vegetative or reproductive growth are the same, is it a typo or do I use the same kinds? Thanks!
Hey Kevin - I looked at it closely and it's NOT a typo: look at the INPUTS. They change. The #'s don't but the inputs do and that makes all the difference.
Matt, is there any way I can get in touch with you? I’m writing my second book, The Acidic Garden which follows on from my first book The Acidic Tapestry where Eurasia is devastated by mythical monsters called Damzin (Sanskrit for wasps) these Damizin represent uncontrolled emotions. I want to write about what would happen if a devastated / industrialised land scape were completely left alone for 1,000 years. My plan is to apply permaculture principles (zoning) at a continental scale. I just need someone to give me a little time to explain or, better, do a series of RU-vid videos addressing different aspects of natural rewilding. I know it’s a lot to ask sir.
I make my living soil that takes a year; then finish with earthworms for another year. Do you know anything re earthworms and finished balanced biology? I forage for everything as I love the idea of r.o.ls and is free and diverse. Living soil is what I am after as I grow weed and they love good living soil. Cheers.
Soil erosion affecting complete ecosystem. Every Nation especially European countries, USA, China & Russia should realise importance of revitalizing soil and strive for protecting ecosystem shredding aside their own agenda!
I can volunteer to translate into spanish if you want. Thanks for everything! by the way: is that zucchini (orange ball) on top of those purple peppers? 35:54
I read his original materials - and he has a good overview of folk and indigenous european farming methods and beliefs in which he tried to create a unified theory around that includes everything including race theory of his day and age. My work is based on published science and professional field trials and proven methods. There's overlap for sure, but I focus on the science to demonstrate how natural farming techniques are working.
Do annuals prefer acidic or alkaline soils? Maybe I am misunderstanding the graphic at 12:13. It seems this is saying annuals need alkaline soil and way back when at the Soil Not Oil, you had a graphic with a plot of land and on the one edge it went from annuals up to trees and it was stated that the annuals needed acidic soil, nitrogen based, bacterial environment. What did I miss? thx. Thank you for doing this book. (You were the first person I ever heard that points this out. To me, this is up there with "Debit means left, Credit means right" - First tenant of Accounting.
the ideal zone is 6.5-7 pH for agricultural soils, for blueberries or orchards, they are more fungal dominant and there's much less disturbance so it's more acidic and mycorrhizal.
I've been worried about you. Are the fires near you? There are so many. I got the sorgum seeds and you sent so many other nice things. I was blown away!! I'm not sure what happened with your kickstarter thing, I joined on the last day when there was something extra you got that day, but nothing ever happened. It didn't ask for a credit card or anything.
@@ThePermacultureStudent I don't think I have your email. I won the contest Diamond had and don't have land for 2 huge bags of seeds so I said just a seed packet would be fine. He sent you my address. I let the runner up get all the rest of the seeds.
Hi Xavier, my book can be found on Amazon/Barnes&Noble online, or directly from me and I'll sign it :) www.thepermaculturestudent.com/shop/regenerative-soil-science-amp-solutions-manual-pre-order
@@ThePermacultureStudent I clicked on your link and it sent me to Amazon. Will that still get me the signed copy? Im purchasing it from you through Amazon.
Thank you for a great video! We must cherish and replenish our Mother Earth 🌎❤️🙏 #ConsciousPlanet #savesoil #sadhguru #letusmakeithappen #SaveSoilSaveLife #Sadhguru #cpsavesoil #SadhguruJV @SadhguruJV @CPSaveSoil
On really amazing months where I'm posting everyday I can almost make $200 total in ad revenue - so not much! ;) my books and courses are what supports my work and my family. I'm just likely not "hot" advertising material ;) too nerdy lol
@@treetalker76 I love that area! My books are on my website: www.thepermaculturestudent.com and Amazon/Barnes&Noble/etc. There's a range of options for the course - learn more here - we begin the 14th on Monday: matt-powers.mykajabi.com/regenerativesoil
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