Thank you so much for your classes Matt ! I’m down by Joshua Tree and have been using legumes and RuthStout method to turn my sand and rock garden back into arable soil. Just saw the first beautiful white strands of Fungi!
Thanks for the dirt on "the dirt". Ear worm time. To the tune of Beach Boys "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" .... "Making Dirt Is Just For You". Now, go ahead and make up the rest. Use Sara Bellum's Soil Solutions. I'll be singing it today as I dig a hole for a Mexican Thornless Lime tree. Farming the desert in Phoenix. I have desert tortoise "manure" to add as an amendment. Full of calcium. Very local.
@mattpowers I live in Guadalajara, Mexico and have a backyard that is 8m x 7m that gets a good amount of sun during the day. I will turn into a food forest project. I want to improve the soil that has only had grass and weeds growing since the house was abandoned. can you give me some steps to start building the soil?? I thought about covering the grass with cardboard and maybe layering soil or compost or broken down organic matter on top? I will be buying plants/trees to plant and thought maybe to start with the ground first? thanks in advance
Yes always start with the soil - you can sheet mulch and that can work great but you can also chop and drop and use a cover crop to build soil first too.
I think you'd dig my new book (Regenerative Soil). There's a LOT of benefits from mouldering composting - such that hot and mouldering have been combined in the static aerated compost using chimneys in the compost or pumping air from below. Have you heard of Johnson-Su composting?
Would ecto be considered for almonds? I know they’re a “nut” but considered a dry fruit. I’m a ranch manager looking to help the farm switch to regen but trying to figure out best forms of inoculation.
I have a tip for easy transplanting seedlings🌱 Get your store bought eggs in the cardboard egg crates instead of styrofoam. Plant your seeds in the egg crates. When they are big enough to transplant, no need to remove from the egg crate. Just plant the whole thing. Worms will eat the cardboard & fertilize your seedlings as a bonus! 🌱😆👍 🌟Side bonuses: You're recycling the cardboard, and not filling landfills with styrofoam that doesn't break down 🌟
Matt, I've heard claims that you can only grow mycorrhizal fungi IN THE SOIL and ATTACHED to a living root. Meaning, it will NOT grow in a compost tea. Also, I've read claims that many purchased mycorrhizal products don't end up working because not only is it just one species of mycorrhizae (there are many), but it's not likely native to your soil and will end up competing with other mycorrhizal fungi that may already exist in your soil. Thoughts on these claims vs what you state here?
There are more beneficial fungi than just mycorrhizal, and many of them are endophytic, so fungal composts have real value, BUT what are your goals? There's so much more detail to all this. After a year of writing Regenerative Soil, I have a more nuanced approach to all this. The humic substances added by compost tea ramp up native IMO just by adding in more surface area for more 4th phase water to form.
Always use IMOs in your plans - the native species of what you buy in a store is going to be more vigorous and robust: in my new book I go over how to promote and select these things DIY and to adapt commercial strains and scale them up DIY. www.thepermaculturestudent.com/shop/regenerative-soil-science-amp-solutions-manual-pre-order
That's good to know about using anaerobic compost to cook with, we are moving and really want to use gas but it's not available. It's essential for clay pot cooking nearly. We planned to do home biogas and maybe try some solar techniques here and there. Instead of a biodigestor that's interesting he is doing a huge pile.
Hey! you are knowledgeable! I subscribed to your channel. If I am new to all these things, would the advanced course be helpful? or should I begin with a course for beginners?
In times like these I think it's best to dive in all the way! Check out the full course here: matt-powers.mykajabi.com/the-advanced-permaculture-student-online-signup-page
Hi! European viewer here - when you talk about beneficial plants, could you please mention their scientific (i.e. Latin) names? I tried to google what "cow peas" could possibly be in Dutch, and it took a professional translators' message board to figure out that they are actually called "caw-peas..." Which, I gather, are. of the Vignus genus, is that correct? (So, things like black-eyed beans, not peas?) I do love watching everything soil related, but I'm starting to get a bee in my bonnet about youtubers thinking they are exclusively speaking to a North-American audience. 😉 (Also, get with the metric system, people! I don't want to have to do fractions just to figure out how deep to plant a seed! But that may be more about my lack of aptitude in maths... 😬)
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Thank you so much for your classes Matt ! I’m down by Joshua Tree and have been using legumes and RuthStout method to turn my sand and rock garden back into arable soil. Just saw the first beautiful white strands of Fungi!
Thank you, Matt! I enjoy your books and videos. Thank you for getting the good word out.
I build soil with compost filled with worms and mulching heavily. I observe the amount of water held is crazy good.
Thank you for your many explanations... few are as succint as you . Thanks again!
Thanks for the dirt on "the dirt". Ear worm time. To the tune of Beach Boys "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" .... "Making Dirt Is Just For You". Now, go ahead and make up the rest. Use Sara Bellum's Soil Solutions. I'll be singing it today as I dig a hole for a Mexican Thornless Lime tree. Farming the desert in Phoenix. I have desert tortoise "manure" to add as an amendment. Full of calcium. Very local.
@mattpowers I live in Guadalajara, Mexico and have a backyard that is 8m x 7m that gets a good amount of sun during the day. I will turn into a food forest project. I want to improve the soil that has only had grass and weeds growing since the house was abandoned. can you give me some steps to start building the soil?? I thought about covering the grass with cardboard and maybe layering soil or compost or broken down organic matter on top? I will be buying plants/trees to plant and thought maybe to start with the ground first? thanks in advance
Yes always start with the soil - you can sheet mulch and that can work great but you can also chop and drop and use a cover crop to build soil first too.
How is this going @sgranau ? I'm in Pachuca, and uilding soil is tough, especially with the prolonged dry season Oct-March
Thank you Matt! Another very informative video.
Ilike "moldering". This way I get to play with all the bugs and lizards and things in my compost. We have to keep the fun in agriculture.
I think you'd dig my new book (Regenerative Soil). There's a LOT of benefits from mouldering composting - such that hot and mouldering have been combined in the static aerated compost using chimneys in the compost or pumping air from below. Have you heard of Johnson-Su composting?
A pleasure of a clip. Thank you.
Would ecto be considered for almonds? I know they’re a “nut” but considered a dry fruit. I’m a ranch manager looking to help the farm switch to regen but trying to figure out best forms of inoculation.
I have a tip for easy transplanting seedlings🌱 Get your store bought eggs in the cardboard egg crates instead of styrofoam. Plant your seeds in the egg crates. When they are big enough to transplant, no need to remove from the egg crate. Just plant the whole thing. Worms will eat the cardboard & fertilize your seedlings as a bonus! 🌱😆👍
🌟Side bonuses: You're recycling the cardboard, and not filling landfills with styrofoam that doesn't break down 🌟
Thank you
Matt, I've heard claims that you can only grow mycorrhizal fungi IN THE SOIL and ATTACHED to a living root. Meaning, it will NOT grow in a compost tea.
Also, I've read claims that many purchased mycorrhizal products don't end up working because not only is it just one species of mycorrhizae (there are many), but it's not likely native to your soil and will end up competing with other mycorrhizal fungi that may already exist in your soil.
Thoughts on these claims vs what you state here?
There are more beneficial fungi than just mycorrhizal, and many of them are endophytic, so fungal composts have real value, BUT what are your goals? There's so much more detail to all this. After a year of writing Regenerative Soil, I have a more nuanced approach to all this. The humic substances added by compost tea ramp up native IMO just by adding in more surface area for more 4th phase water to form.
Always use IMOs in your plans - the native species of what you buy in a store is going to be more vigorous and robust: in my new book I go over how to promote and select these things DIY and to adapt commercial strains and scale them up DIY. www.thepermaculturestudent.com/shop/regenerative-soil-science-amp-solutions-manual-pre-order
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That's good to know about using anaerobic compost to cook with, we are moving and really want to use gas but it's not available. It's essential for clay pot cooking nearly. We planned to do home biogas and maybe try some solar techniques here and there. Instead of a biodigestor that's interesting he is doing a huge pile.
Hey! you are knowledgeable! I subscribed to your channel. If I am new to all these things, would the advanced course be helpful? or should I begin with a course for beginners?
In times like these I think it's best to dive in all the way! Check out the full course here: matt-powers.mykajabi.com/the-advanced-permaculture-student-online-signup-page
Thank you for great info🍄💩🐛🦠🌻🐝
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Hi! European viewer here - when you talk about beneficial plants, could you please mention their scientific (i.e. Latin) names? I tried to google what "cow peas" could possibly be in Dutch, and it took a professional translators' message board to figure out that they are actually called "caw-peas..." Which, I gather, are. of the Vignus genus, is that correct? (So, things like black-eyed beans, not peas?)
I do love watching everything soil related, but I'm starting to get a bee in my bonnet about youtubers thinking they are exclusively speaking to a North-American audience. 😉 (Also, get with the metric system, people! I don't want to have to do fractions just to figure out how deep to plant a seed! But that may be more about my lack of aptitude in maths... 😬)
I appreciate you man
One of your better ones! Rock on