Fantastic talk and inspiring work! Thank you for sharing. SOM (Soil Organic Matter) allows for increased soil moisture retention, which leads to more biomass which in turn draws more moisture down through increasing relative humidity, increasing condensation, which facilitates more biomass, which supports a soil food web that increases the SOM (and a lot of other things) in a giant feedback loop.
The hyphae help reach down from the carbon-based world into the bacterial-mineral world exchanging across biological planes of existence as it were. I really like the way you explain these concepts. I am glad to hear this talk and the importance of the living matrix of the soil as opposed to the crumbs of life swimming in a dead sea.
Has the Johnson-Su bioreactor registration page at Chico been discontinued? I registered two bioreactors about November, and can't add another. i am Stephen from Emerald Beach Australia.
No, Jay, it hasn't. It has been made less predictable and more prone to extreme events because of fossil energy consumption and poor agricultural and forestry practices mainly.
Fantastic talk and inspiring work! Thank you for sharing. SOM (Soil Organic Matter) allows for increased soil moisture retention, which leads to more biomass which in turn draws more moisture down through increasing relative humidity, increasing condensation, which facilitates more biomass, which supports a soil food web that increases the SOM (and a lot of other things) in a giant feedback loop.
The hyphae help reach down from the carbon-based world into the bacterial-mineral world exchanging across biological planes of existence as it were. I really like the way you explain these concepts. I am glad to hear this talk and the importance of the living matrix of the soil as opposed to the crumbs of life swimming in a dead sea.
Interesting that rice is still a regenerative challenge since wetlands and estuaries are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world.
Excellent discussion. Important work. Thank you Tim and Dan.
Thanks for reposting the full presentation.
Exciting stuff.
Has the Johnson-Su bioreactor registration page at Chico been discontinued? I registered two bioreactors about November, and can't add another. i am Stephen from Emerald Beach Australia.
It was restored about a week ago.
How can I apply this in my garden?
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Controlled by chemical fallow?
No, Jay, it hasn't. It has been made less predictable and more prone to extreme events because of fossil energy consumption and poor agricultural and forestry practices mainly.
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