Join our panelists as we talk about how thriving fungi and soil ecosystems is our hope from the biosphere!
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Many of us face concerns or anxieties over news of fires, floods, and other looming environmental problems in the world. In this webinar, we will discuss how thriving soil ecosystems can help alleviate future disruptions and heal the damage done to our precious biosphere.
Dr. Adam Cobb will explore our ‘tiny allies’ in the soil, using the example of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to highlight how soil food webs create the conditions for life to flourish. Didi Pershouse will discuss how landscapes function as wholes, and how the soil sponge is the vital infrastructure that regulates local climate and makes life on land possible. She will present how soil biology, plants, and other forms of life are the essential workforce of our biosphere. For example, fungi entangle soil particles to improve aggregation, enhancing healthy soil’s sponge-like ability to soak up water and provide resilience to flooding and drought..
The biosphere contains wonderous organisms, such as mycorrhizal fungi in soil. If we learn to work with these tiny allies, rather than against them, there is hope for a future where life is protected, ecosystem health is restored, and human needs are provided for, without degradation of our planet.
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Panelist Bios
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. After completing his PhD at Oklahoma State University, he spent five years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and University Instructor. He joined the Soil Food Web School in 2021, following his dream to help regenerate soils, improve human nutrition, and heal our planet.
Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative, and the author of two books: The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities, and the free facilitator’s manual: Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function. Didi teaches the Soil Sponge Regeneration Workshop (https://www.soilfoodweb.com/soil-sponge-regeneration-workshop/) through the Soil Food Web School.
The Soil Food Web School was founded by Dr. Elaine Ingham after she had spent over 30 years working with farmers on 6 continents to develop her holistic and scientific method of rapidly restoring the soil biome.
Our host, Dr. Adrienne Godschalx, has a deep love for plants, insects, and the interactions between them. She is a Soil Food Web School Mentor and Researcher.
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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.
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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Another great presentation!
Decomposition is a slooow-burn/reverse-photosynthesis fire too!
So… Life was before rain?
OH MY
What a thought ⭐
Thank you!!
These talks are fantastic. Very grateful that you all are sharing!
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Always love featuring these live sessions on my Discord. You guys really are amazing and can't wait for a greener future for us all, and so glad to be a part of it.
Great Initiative to save our planet. Kudos Guys!!!
as an Organic Gardener constantly learning more about Biodynamic/ Soil conditioning etc. This was a fantastic talk – I'm glad I attended!
Great Webinar, Thanks for the great information!!
I’m seeing a lot of bare soil around me 😔
i like the logic presented regarding that insecticide when she said who gets to eat first when you wipe out the general population of insects – the insects who eats the plants
And I don’t think we’re in trouble God and Mother Nature are in charge not humans
I do agree with Dr Cobb that you have to focus on people that want to follow what we are doing. I am studying Dr Elaine Inghams' Soil food web course, I live in the UK in a village, so I have joined the local gardening society to look for likeminded people. I am having a blast finding out all about the soil food web. This is the first year I have not suffered with tomato blight I have not reach the stage in the course on how to make compost tea, but I am making it and have had a lot of sucess. Thank you.
Hello! Although i have read here and there things about wood ash and sawdust i would like to hear(or read) your opinion on that. I want to return to the system everything i produce from wood burning (which i use for home heating). Plus the sawdust i produce from wood cutting machinery.
go vegan, dont encourage unessential exploitaiton of sentient being without their concent. we dont need to waste tons of land to monocrop soy for mostly animal while people starving, drop the steak! one of the best move yo can do for planet human and animal at once, health wealth wellbeing. plants are ultra chepa and nutritious.. being ecologic and eating a steak that cost bay to be killed is a bit ironic, mom force impregnated, head cut, fed antibiotic in horible condition, and tousand litter of water and crops?? for a steak? wake up 😀 just dont get gmo soy as vegan 🙂 (the one they give to cattle people eat :O )
Deserts are not natural, drylands are. Deserts are simply dersertified drylands. The plants that grow in the "deserts" are dryland plants. If you were to repair the water cycle in a dryland, the cacti and other dryland plants would still grow in the drier parts without any problems.
Very impressed folks much appreciated
Humans are conceptual animals. When their ideology are filled with “ill conceived science”, they call real science as “pseudo science” and celebrate “havoc” as a great achievement of a “civilization”. They will either learn their lesson from “real science” or “Mother Nature”. Preferably “real science”… because Mother Nature has very very and very bad temper. 🤷🏻