Join us to learn how plants and fungi have unique roles and partnerships that facilitate life in the soil.
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Fungi, and other organisms in a healthy and thriving soil ecosystem are important, including bacteria, protozoa, and nematodes. If plant roots represent the highways of the soil food web, fungi are the side roads, ensuring that resources like sugar are transported to the essential workforce of diverse microorganisms. Fungal biomass is also one of the key factors for soil aggregation, helping to maintain a stable and aerobic environment.
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The Soil Food Web School’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to regenerate the soils in their communities. The Soil Food Web Approach can dramatically accelerate soil regeneration projects by focussing on the soil biome. This can boost the productivity of farms, provide super-nutritious foods, protect and purify waterways, and reduce the effects of Climate Change. No background in farming or biology is required for our Foundation Courses. Classes are online & self-paced, and students are supported by highly-trained Soil Food Web School mentors.
About our speakers:
Dr. Adam Cobb’s passion for agriculture emerged during his several months of volunteer work on organic farms in New Zealand. His time in graduate school cultivated a broad vision for the restoration of living soils, as well as the power of research and community engagement to address global food production challenges. He joined the Soil Food Web School in 2021, following his dream to help regenerate soils, improve human nutrition, and heal our planet.
Dr. Carla Portugal is a Consultant Training Program Instructor and researcher, at the Soil Food Web School. Since she can remember, Carla was attracted to all life forms but the small and microscopic ones always had a special place in her heart. Carla has a keen interest in the connections between soil microorganisms and how nutrient cycling affects the nutritional value of plants.
Brian came from a background in IT and now runs a successful consultancy (Sprouting Soils) in California.
Over the last four decades, Dr. Elaine Ingham has advanced our knowledge of the Soil Food Web. An internationally-recognized leader in soil microbiology, Dr. Ingham has collaborated with other scientists and with farmers around the world to further our understanding of how soil organisms work together and with plants. Dr. Ingham is an author of the USDA’s Soil Biology Primer and a founder of the Soil Food Web School.
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Where does the webinar happen?
Brilliant content🙏 Knowledge Is Power
Thanks for sharing 💚🌍
So much more to learn.
How do we grow potatoes without disturbing or destroying the soil food web?
When you guys are doing a webinar can you check and balance all of the microphones so that everyone is at the same volume. I cant stop listening to you guys. GREAT JOB EVERYONE !!! THANKS
Hey, are there any architectural intervention examples regarding fungi? I know that mycelium is used to create ''bricks''
Question: Does the Soil Food Web School/Webinars offer any material specific to silvopasture. Examples given are usually crop/grass land or forest but I'm curious how these principals may change when applied to a mixed biome such as savannah? With livestock and poultry using the land does the approach for composting change?
I love the concept of holobiont… it’s like the reductionist view of a plant body is incomplete… it seems like a plant body should include all the organisms in the plants orbit that it actively cultivates and needs to survive!
I sometimes wonder if I’m really just a car for microbes to move around in space… and if my consciousness is just evidence of that system, a pattern that emerged out of complexity. A little humbling 😂
Early in the program Dr Elaine reiterated that taking organisms from non native environments so I ask how do we build these in our soil? Do we cover later in the seminar the how to balance and build the eco systems?
If only I knew this stuff 20 years ago lol
Imports and exportations of plants 🌱 and 🦒 animal life, foods, materials are in the Bible and are normal and good if not based on idolatry. If only local then you would never see a tomato 🍅 in europe, maybe or the USA, and we would not have the precious olive oil 🫒. God is good for us, despite we dont deserve it. God is good!
I live in S.W British Columbia , Canada very near the coast. We have a lot of beautiful dark soils here. As I drive around I see many farm fields that are being aggressively tilled and very few cover crops being used and I wonder why. I am not a farmer but have become very interested in understanding what healthy soil is all about. Have the local farmers been so spoiled with dark nutrient-rich soils that they feel that keeping living roots in the soil via cover crops is not necessary and that tillage is automatically needed each spring? THEY are the farmers……. they should be the ones who understand and demonstrate healthy soil practices!!
Throw what you can see don't have to eat bug bread