I'm intrigued by 'Biofertilisers', and why we need them (IF we are developing a healthy soil food web which can in theory mineralise all the required nutrients). As long as the plants have water, sunlight and carbon dioxide you'll get your sugars, which will feed the biology in the rhizosphere who will (assuming you've done all the good work to have good diversity, no compaction etc etc) be bringing the plants what they need. The rationale for not needing synthetic inorganic fertlisers applies equally to biofertilisers doesn't it? (Sorry, I'm becoming 'that guy'! ;) lol).. but it's a genuine question. Always keen to hear people's perspective on why they do what they do etc.
Perhaps for basal application, helping sickly plants, reactive solution to emerging problems, and faster acting fertilization (faster than compost and raw amendments).
Can you explain what's going on with the little bottle that you connected to the hose? Is there yeast and water in that bottle? And what's it's function?
You’re brilliant mate, thank you for spreading the message! Hoping to start my own market garden next summer and I’d be lucky to achieve even a fraction of what you have 🙏🫡
Can fish and/or kelp be added to this also? I've had really good results with kelp and have heard great things about using fish hydrolysate. I've never seen them combined at once though. Any insight is much appreciated.
@@regenerativeagriculture Thanks for your response, the video is really helpful. My thought was to add fish to the next batch of biofert so it all cooks together.
For food waste composting, could I layer it out on a wide area of ground? I would like to remediate the soil in a large unused plot of land. Following nature in this way, will it biodegrade into useful organic matter for a future large garden?
Sean Reed Sean, It depends somewhat on your climate and other factors; for us in dry California, we would lose much of the nitrogen in the food waste as it sits exposed to the baking sun; and not being in contact with soil particles, manure worms and microorganisms, but drying air. You’d still get some of the organic matter...eventually. You could add a ‘mixer’ such as poultry to help break-down and incorporate the food into the soil a bit, which would help. In a more moist climate perhaps a denser insect and manure worm population might break down the food more quickly, and draw it down into contact with the soil, capturing more of the nitrogen and other nutrients. For our dry CA climate it makes more sense to feed it to manure worms in a concentrated setting and later distribute the castings as a concentrated source of nutrients, enzymes and biology. By concentrating the processing we’re more easily able to exclude rodents, who would otherwise profit from widespread broadcast of food ‘waste’. Or capture the value of the foods in a nice compost system. And of course you could try it and see what happens! Have Fun!
My thoughts too, I feel like all you hear with compost tea is how to avoid anerobic environment.. don't get me it makes sense having all the nutrients digested by the microbes but aren't anerobic environments susceptible to anerobic pathogens?
@supervdj Dr Elaine Ingham also says no to biochar ;) You don't have to follow a persons reckomendation to the letter just do what feels right in your context. @ Richard, that borage is great for fermented plant juice accirding to KNF methods but you probably knew that already.
See, thats a problem. Feeling right has nothing to do with it, its about what actually works best. Thats what you need field trials, nutrient analysis and so on for. Proper scientific method. Really looking forward to hard data regarding the effectivness of all these different methods.
Plenty of evidence in support of biochar but that doesn't stop Dr. Ingham from cherry-picking only the negative studies that support her agenda either. As far as the high bacteria content of tea made with molasses goes, he made it to go on vegetable beds where you want such a thing as opposed to a more fungal dominant tea for forest systems.
How is supporting biochar production promoting deforestation? As with everything there is a right way to do something and the wrong way to do something, obviously I don't endorse clearcutting for the purpose of biochar production but encourage the use of "waste" biomass, which would otherwise naturally decompose and release at least 95% of it's carbon content back into the atmosphere instead of only about 50% when converted to biochar. Also biochar isn't beneficial in all environments but that doesn't mean it's not beneficial at all, what I see Dr Ingham do is just focus on the few negative studies that proved biochar to be detrimental to already perfectly established ecosystems and uses those studies as an argument against any biochar use and just ignores the studies done on severely degraded soils where biochar was proven to be beneficial. I say this is to support her agenda because biochar is a tool in ecosystem restoration, just like her own methods are, and she probably sees it as competition while both methods/techniques can actually be used to strengthen each other.
Awesome info packed video for all those folks starting a farm. thanks
I'm intrigued by 'Biofertilisers', and why we need them (IF we are developing a healthy soil food web which can in theory mineralise all the required nutrients). As long as the plants have water, sunlight and carbon dioxide you'll get your sugars, which will feed the biology in the rhizosphere who will (assuming you've done all the good work to have good diversity, no compaction etc etc) be bringing the plants what they need. The rationale for not needing synthetic inorganic fertlisers applies equally to biofertilisers doesn't it? (Sorry, I'm becoming 'that guy'! ;) lol).. but it's a genuine question. Always keen to hear people's perspective on why they do what they do etc.
Perhaps for basal application, helping sickly plants, reactive solution to emerging problems, and faster acting fertilization (faster than compost and raw amendments).
Beautiful place!
Can you explain what's going on with the little bottle that you connected to the hose? Is there yeast and water in that bottle? And what's it's function?
You’re brilliant mate, thank you for spreading the message! Hoping to start my own market garden next summer and I’d be lucky to achieve even a fraction of what you have 🙏🫡
love your videos
Do you have a written recipe or is the recipe for compost tea in your book? Many thanks for all you do. Cheers from Wisconsin, USA
Your book arrived this week! I'm super excited to dive into it!
M0hawk99 I'm waiting for my copy of the book. It'll be an interesting read.
what is the rate of application if using the biofertz at farm scale please?
at what dilution rate do we apply the Cal Phos ???
Which microbes do you personal count as "beneficial"? Is it better for vegetables to go this bacterial dominant with the compost tea?
Hello, is there any advantage to mixing calphos with biochar?
Another awesome 1 !!! Thanks for sharing
Hey, Richard, how long do you leave the bio fertilizer in with the bio char? Wonderful information, I have a batch started. Thank you Patti
Loving it! So exciting :)
Can fish and/or kelp be added to this also? I've had really good results with kelp and have heard great things about using fish hydrolysate. I've never seen them combined at once though. Any insight is much appreciated.
I'm not sure which recipe you refer too, but kelp would be good in biofert and in B or F compost teas...
@@regenerativeagriculture Thanks for your response, the video is really helpful. My thought was to add fish to the next batch of biofert so it all cooks together.
For food waste composting, could I layer it out on a wide area of ground? I would like to remediate the soil in a large unused plot of land. Following nature in this way, will it biodegrade into useful organic matter for a future large garden?
Sean Reed Sean, It depends somewhat on your climate and other factors; for us in dry California, we would lose much of the nitrogen in the food waste as it sits exposed to the baking sun; and not being in contact with soil particles, manure worms and microorganisms, but drying air. You’d still get some of the organic matter...eventually.
You could add a ‘mixer’ such as poultry to help break-down and incorporate the food into the soil a bit, which would help.
In a more moist climate perhaps a denser insect and manure worm population might break down the food more quickly, and draw it down into contact with the soil, capturing more of the nitrogen and other nutrients.
For our dry CA climate it makes more sense to feed it to manure worms in a concentrated setting and later distribute the castings as a concentrated source of nutrients, enzymes and biology. By concentrating the processing we’re more easily able to exclude rodents, who would otherwise profit from widespread broadcast of food ‘waste’.
Or capture the value of the foods in a nice compost system.
And of course you could try it and see what happens!
Have Fun!
That vegi box would be an instant hit in australia.
00:39 Borage!
I love the bees
Is the utility going to check the pole to make sure it's not a hazard? Poor birds...
Dr Elaine Ingham says no to molasses since it creates way too much bacteria in the compost tea. Keep that in mind after your trials.
Agree.. although in the other video he stated he was intentionally creating bacterially dominant tea. (for whatever reason)
Because bacterially dominated soil is better for green plants, fungal dominated better for woody crops,
as a general rule.
Theres no season 4 E84
how do they prevent C. botulinum growth in that anaerobic digestion?
My thoughts too, I feel like all you hear with compost tea is how to avoid anerobic environment.. don't get me it makes sense having all the nutrients digested by the microbes but aren't anerobic environments susceptible to anerobic pathogens?
You work your butt off for no additional result over just using compost.
@supervdj Dr Elaine Ingham also says no to biochar ;)
You don't have to follow a persons reckomendation to the letter just do what feels right in your context.
@ Richard, that borage is great for fermented plant juice accirding to KNF methods but you probably knew that already.
See, thats a problem. Feeling right has nothing to do with it, its about what actually works best.
Thats what you need field trials, nutrient analysis and so on for. Proper scientific method.
Really looking forward to hard data regarding the effectivness of all these different methods.
Plenty of evidence in support of biochar but that doesn't stop Dr. Ingham from cherry-picking only the negative studies that support her agenda either.
As far as the high bacteria content of tea made with molasses goes, he made it to go on vegetable beds where you want such a thing as opposed to a more fungal dominant tea for forest systems.
Permaculture Playground What agenda? Not promoting deforestation? Science? What.? ...
How is supporting biochar production promoting deforestation? As with everything there is a right way to do something and the wrong way to do something, obviously I don't endorse clearcutting for the purpose of biochar production but encourage the use of "waste" biomass, which would otherwise naturally decompose and release at least 95% of it's carbon content back into the atmosphere instead of only about 50% when converted to biochar.
Also biochar isn't beneficial in all environments but that doesn't mean it's not beneficial at all, what I see Dr Ingham do is just focus on the few negative studies that proved biochar to be detrimental to already perfectly established ecosystems and uses those studies as an argument against any biochar use and just ignores the studies done on severely degraded soils where biochar was proven to be beneficial. I say this is to support her agenda because biochar is a tool in ecosystem restoration, just like her own methods are, and she probably sees it as competition while both methods/techniques can actually be used to strengthen each other.