Regenerating the Diversity of Life in Soils - Webinar with Dr David Johnson

David speaks of a Terry, would you what his second name is and what he grows if you have links to Terrys work would be appreciated

Would be great to have a link in the description to the PDF of his presentation as soon as it's available :)

Are these single compost applications? Or are they being applied yearly

What is the method to determine the bacterial : fungal ratio? With microscope according to Elaine Ingham?

Is there an optimum C:N ratio of the organic materials used in the bioreactor?

Are you in New Zealand . Like to talk thanks Philip

I am in Northeast Texas and practice holistic resource management. We manage for pasture using planned grazing. We strive to create high quality pasture asap. We have a lot of trouble with wooly croton. This is a nasty weed. I would call it invasive. The spring pasture is characterized by cool season annual ryegrass and clovers. They are doing very well and improving annually. We will be incorporating perennial ryegrass in our pastures next year. The warm season grasses are presently a predominant mix of bermuda and bahai. More and more higher quality warm season perennials are showing up and spreading. Our problem in summer is the wooly croton. It can dominate a pasture. We are looking for some high quality compost to use in making compost tea to spray on our pastures. We want to eventually see big bluestem growing in our summer pastures. So, we need a compost that will produce the compost tea to obtain our goals. Anyone out there who can help?

When they killed off the wolves in Yellowstone National Park, it changed the whole environment. When they re-added wolves, the wolves got the coyotes and foxes in check, caused the deer to move around out of the low lands so willows started growing up, when there were willows, beavers started moving in with their dams and slowing plus widening and deepening the river, the extra water on the landscape grew more grasses and created habitat for river otters, fish, birds, amphibians, and multiple more plant and insect species... The beginning of the restoration was wolves.

How would you scale the bioreactor for a home gardener. How do you keep it from freezing in the winter?

It would be interesting to see if they added bio char to a row to see the production results in 2-5 years.

Wow - I’m only 8 minutes in, and my mind needs to take a break to take some of this in... I’m definitely coming back to finish this video!

Why does he use red wigglers rather than earthworms? Red Wigglers do not dive deeply.

Gracias por los subtítulos en español!! 👍

If anyone knows the "7 way" covercrop mix Johnson often refers to, please list. It may well be dependent on growing zone or grazing v ag usage which is why he doesn't list the seed components? Or have I just missed it in the presentation?

What's the species of microbes that produces cellulose?

I think the Walnut leaf concern is the juglone the tree uses to suppress competition around it when stressed. Leaves have less of it than roots and should decompose quickly in this system.

which innoculate did you use. aea spevtrum? ds

What I don't hear is how to take 1 year old compost and at what rate or amount of innoculum to spread on the land.

Water hemp and Palmer amaranth love high nitrogen, in our conventional farming practices that are bacterial dominated, by moving to a more fungal system can we get a reduction of these highly chemical resistant weed species?

I have made 7 Johnson su piles now I put in a diverse amount of materials the majority is soaked leaves and fine woods but also add chicken bedding that is mixed with wood chips and leaves leaf mold bokashi food scraps as a activator sea 90 for instant minerals for the biology and rock dust for long term minerals i add fish waste and homemade fish hydrolysate as a activator aged johnson su compost to every layer and my next pile I’m going to collect IMO indigenous microorganisms from a nearby forest to add to every layer also add bone and wood char humic acid insect frass chicken guts and feathers that i ferment in buckets with em1 but I always keep in mind that I want a fungal rich compost for lots of fungal foods

Ecosystems are master problem solvers.

If 1 human being is made up of 10 trillion cells, how many micro organisms are made with 90 trillion cells?

There is an entire channel dedicated to this topic? I may be four years late, but you just made my day.