Building Microbe-Rich Living Compost Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Making and applying microbe-rich compost is one of the most valuable things you can do for your soil. Learn how, with Jane Weaver of Earth & Spirit Design, and get an inspired perspective on how to to make compost that is biologically diverse making it better for your soil, plants and nutrient density of the food you grow. Understand principles and practices of home-scale composting to insure a rodent-free and biologically active compost pile.
You mentioned the odor of methane. As far as I know, methane is an odorless gas. I've learned that the associated odor is caused by the ”nasty” byproducts mainly from sulfuric sources.
At room temperature and standard pressure, methane is a colorless, odorless gas. The familiar smell of natural gas as used in homes is achieved by the addition of an odorant, usually blends containing tert-butylthiol, as a safety measure.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane
I cannot believe the wealth of information given by Jane Weaver. Superb. We are never to old to learn.
yup
Just saw this in my video feed. Thank you for your talk and really love the blessing. Greetings and happy composting from Canada.
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I am such a baby, I was tearing up during her little prayer. I was very nice.
who was she praying to? Did not really understand her prayer.
It was a blessing.
I also cried during the blessing
Gotta watch again was working on my garden while listening. And missed some.
Plants also gain nutrients from their leaves that is why so many people around the world use foliar feeds. Foliar feeding is a technique of feeding plants by applying liquid fertilizer directly to their leaves. Plants are able to absorb essential elements through their leaves. The absorption takes place through their stomata and also through their epidermis.
The best way to feed plants is to use a combination of both methods.
That is true, but the foliar feeding isn't as effective as a root feeding, you can think of it as rubbing nutrients on your skin as opposed to eating it directly, your body is going to process it better and faster if it is consumed
Awesome! So much great knowledge...Thank You.
Marvelous video for this beginner Farmer, thanks for your sharing knowledge
Snow and ice due to waters molecular structure acts like a continental quilt. It holds a lot of air between its solid state structure. Thats why it protects from the more extreme cold temperatures and fluctuations in temperature, allowing rivers to run and plants etc to survive under it.
True. Ordinary snow also forms a 'quilt', holding temps at around 32F which is why burying your water jug in snow when camping helps keep it fluid. Upside down keeps the ice film in the jug forming away from the cap so you can still drink it in the morning without fighting with the cap just to get the jug open. It's also how homes can be built with ice blocks in the arctic circle.
Wow totally wonderful show!
@dandeleona4760 if it snows too early here in the Arctic, the sea ice won't free,e thick enough to carry vehicles (snow machines). This can delay the natives ability to get to where the caribou are for subsistence hunting.
This video is so awesome . Thanks for sharing. I'm always amazed by how the soil food web works. So cool 😎
Awesome info for anyone interested in composting--thank you for sharing your expertise with the world.
Great info! And oh yeah, I started listening to Spyrogyra 40 years ago!
This has been the video I was looking for!
Thank you, this is very informative.
Amazing! Thank you!🙏
Very well done!
Jane is wonderous!
This was amazing. Thank you so much. Going to rewatch!
Amazing info.for nature lovers.. Great good going.. 👍👍🌳🐝
Fantastic!!
Excellent!
One common misconception: Compost creates heat and water. Heat and water do not create compost.
At 1:02:40, is is stated emuslion has fat, which is bad. Hydrolysate doesnt which is good. OPPOSITE! the oils in hydrolysate is the most important part for fungal food, emulsion has had oils removed to be sold. DONT GET CONFUSED
That stuff is worth more than gold no wonder they take it out
You guys need to check out the Joraform composter. It's a totally different way of composting. The Joraform composter is an insulted metal tumbler composter that the Swiss designed. It is expensive but it has so many advantages. It allows the backyard composter to easily compost food scraps including meat and dairy because it's metal and rats and mice can't get in it. They recommend putting wood stove pellets in there with the kitchen scraps to balance the moisture and C:N ratio with the kitchen scraps. You have to turn it every day to keep it hot (roll it a couple times). They recommend you add small amounts of material daily. I think it gets hot so quickly because it is insulated. I have composted for 30 years and have looked down my nose at tumbler composers. But I saw a video and decided to buy one and I'm telling you, this was a game changer for me. It's not perfect, nothing is. I've had it for 6 months now and material wants to stick to the insulation. Everything has to be in small pieces. The motion of the tumbler makes little compost balls that I have to break up a bit. But it makes compost very quickly and saves a ton of back braking labor. I don't have a microscope, so I can't tell you what effect it has on the microbes. I don't have any affiliation with the manufacturer or benefit in any way from telling you about this composter. After the first of the year I think I'm going to buy another one and start composing my neighbors kitchen waste.
Good information. Nicely presented.
Thank you for putting out a video and then ignoring all the questions and comments.
So many Y-tubers always asking us to subscribe, like etc... and they get paid more $$$. then they promptly ignore us. I for one came to the video for information. As in the plant world, this should be a symbiotic relationship... you get paid, I get the information.
@@garthwunsch - Yes Sir..
Wow! Thanks for sharing this wealth of knowledge!
Extremely interesting thank you
I love this :) Thank you :)
Thank you
Is there more of this? Really good material I wish more had been discussed for failed compost and what to do with it. Also really enjoying the Dan Kittredge series I hope you can get those all up soon
You can work anaerobic compost back to aerobic compost and it’s fine to use
Hows the compost nowadays Joe? You seem like you were very hungry for knowledge, and I bet you figured out some cool stuff! You should update the comment. 🇨🇦👊🏻🍁♻️🍁🙏
@@BigWesLawns sure I live in the city and I'm hoping to get out on an acreage or farm soon. But it can be a struggle. So I haven't managed to ever do a compost but I believe composting is one of the most important things we can do. I've been worm farming in my house for the last several months but I just have an off the shelf worm bin and it feels like not enough worms were a family of 7 and we can throw maybe 10 to 15 percent of our food scraps into the bin and that's maybe too much for the worms still but im hopeful worm farming is neat because the compost they turn out is immediately good for your soil/garden I recently watched a john kohler presentation where he went to a worm farm and learned what they incorporate into their worm bins because he uses worm compost on his plants and he did an experiment with two types and the one type gave him double growth on his harvest. So it's interesting to me how tweaking and refining aspects of composts can make a big difference to end results
Also I'm canadian too so that's fun
@@hehay10 I heard somewhere that the worms will eventually reproduce enough to take on all the food they're being given. But I think it takes a little while for them to get adjusted and start breeding. As long as it's moist and within the right temperature ranges.
Also they have to be the right worms. I was going to dig up some earth worms to throw in my very poorly constructed compost pile but then I read they need special worms. So I just built the pile to be connected to the soil and hopefully it will attract the right type on its own.
Thanks for replying with an update! It's always nice to hear back from people on older comments. Good luck with everything!
I really enjoyed watching this. This will give some things to look out for.
Love your stuff kick on love it
I enjoyed the blessing.
You just blew me away - five years of rotational stock grazing would clean our atmosphere of polluting carbon-dioxide.
Nice; thank you !
Definitely Enjoyable
Thank You
I have a question.. I was watching a video regarding Jadem gardening practices. During one part of the video there was two farms that were using aerobic and anaerobic teas to fertilize their soil. The point that they made was that at the deeper points of soil that become anaerobic also include metabolizing at that same point and that it helps to create deeper soil fertility allowing a deeper root system for the plant.Do you have anything to share about this?
I find it easier to compost anaerobic.If aerobic the turning in big piles is time consuming and expensive.If you don't turn,perfect. We dont turn and if aerobic the water applied is only to cool down the pile. Heat is energy going away (good if you don't add your own bacteria) and to keep bacteria alive in the pile will give you a much faster composting process. I treat it with EM and close it air tight. Few weeks and its gold :)
What is EM?
So you treat it like bokashi? How do you apply it after the "pickling"? isn´t it a bit acid? Thks
Thank u very much for making this video.
Excellent - I like that you don't appear to get as frustrated as I do when trying to explain this shit to people lol. One thing though - when you explain making compost tea's you must emphasize why they can only use rain water as opposed to tap water.
The only reason not to use tap water is because of chlorine from what I've heard. If you double filter your water, that's rarely a problem, in my experience. If your pile is composting then obviously there is adequate bacteria. Maybe there would be more, initially, with rainwater, or distilled water, but you'd need to have quite a bit of chlorine on your water to sterilize your soil. Just leaving water stand in an open bucket will evaporate almost all the chlorine in 24 hours anyway.
Phosphene gas smells like rotting apples or pears specifically; very sweet fermented alcoholic smelling. It can be a deadly gas, if there is a break cleaner being sprayed near arc rays (like from electric arc welding), phosphene gas will be produced. As a welder, I have experience, the gas is very bad for you.
I have an area of the garden where I throw kitchen scraps and occasionally some dirty, its under the trees. I wonder if the decomposed stuff on the bottom of that now, about 3 feet tall pile, is good for anything. I know its packed with earthworms. Will it hurt my garden is I got some of the stuff from the bottom of it and place by my plants?
ALL THE BEES AND BEGINNINGS BE BLESSED BY OUR CREATOR AN D THE MIICILILUM ALSO
I am wanting to build a bioreactor to produce methane for various uses however I'm concerned about the bi-product ie the digestate which some taught the use as fertilizer. However, after watching a few of
Thank you for sharing openly. Greatly appreciate the knowledge 🙏🏼
Amazing!!
Wonders if the reference is for the British band of the early 1970's jazz fusion Spirogira or the American smooth Jazz band, Spiro Gira of the 80's and 90's.
You're an amazing teacher.
How do I adapt this for a tropical place like India? What changes do I make. Also there is a popular method of composting called NADEP. Your comments on it.
NADEP uses the same principles as common composting, that is a great method as well
Thanks
"Electron micrograph" at 27:41 is a transmitted polarized light micrograph.
ABSOLUTELY!
This was amazing. Maybe I missed this, but how do you turn the pile?
Wonderful Wisdom here! thank you everyone!
I have a worm bin and just keep throwing organic matter in. Its just a tote but there must be thousands of worms in there. I wonder if i could use that stuff for compost tea?
Is there a guide you can recommend that would help a person who has a microscope to identify the good guys from the bad?
I wish someone could help me out. Dr. Elaine Ingham, I believe, always says aerobic soil conditions ONLY. Then I see the very popular Japaneses EM Bokashi composting method, which is anaerobic. Also, aren't fermented foods (I believe all anaerobic) extremely healthy for our gut bacteria. If our guts are inoculated by the food we eat, then the bacteria must pass through our acidic digestive system. All that must be anaerobic as well. Hoping someone could clarify all this for me and others. So many questions... so little time.
Try David the good he shows you how to compost everything.
I was wondering the same thing
fermentation and our gut digestion are both aerobic processes, hence deep breeding helps you lower your gut acidity and you feed your brain directly. our muscles on the other hand have anaerobic processes.
Good point! There are even instructions on how to make an anaerobic compost by using effective microorganisms. Those composts are even being compacted on purpose. It seems to work out fine. Fermentation in my regard is superior to hot composting. Also, you do not have to turn it at all. It is less work. I did my compost that way and am very happy with the results. No bad smells at all.
You may also try korean natural farming (knf)
can i use worm compostet in the Garden Tower 2 instead of adding worms in?
Can you use mushroom compost in your compost?
Amazing
what is the name of the famous person that adds mychorrizal fungi to grass and plants? hendrigues what?
I like to add to this discussion, if the microbe-rich biomes create lots of biproducts of gas , and in the oil industry they use carbon dioxide to create fracking for oil then what is the ratio of efficentivy of using micro-rich biomes to create gases enough to frack the ground below since it's essential they break the ground for the roots to grow? I get it on the top soil it does not go deep but what if this farm was 1,000ft deep would the gases and the smell be enough to frack the ground? I seen some patents on google patents showing using micro-rich fungi to create pressured gas chambers but I have yet to see it in video on youtube possibly due to the current monopoly on it but i don't think it would hold up in the courts as a monopoly since it's a natural process done for thousands of years
Great presentation 👍🏽❤️❤️❤️
thank u more education in the study microbe-rich compost
Is there a difference between corn gluten you mentioned for feeding the microbes and regular corn meal you can get at the grocery store? Can the corn meal you mention be gluten free?
Microbes (bacteria etc) love sugars. Think of baking, brewing or wild yeast, that grows best with food (sugars) and warmth. Starch converts into sugars - which is why starch in corn will work for feeding microbes...although i'd stay away from using corn as a source of starch, as so much corn is genetically engineered these days. There are numerous other things you could use. Many veges will have high levels of starch/sugars. Even leafy green plants can have some sweetness to them. Fruit is clearly a good one, as many fruits provide large amounts of sugars/starches. By adding any of the above, you will also be adding minerals & micro-nutrients. Obviously, different balances of minerals & nutrients and different amounts of minerals & nutrients, are contained in different plants - so if you can tailor it to suit the nutrient requirements of the specific plants if necessary. If you're not so focused on multiplying microbes and just need to change the ph quickly, then making a simple cider vinegar is a great way to increase acidity in the soil and add minerals & micro-nutrients, with much of it already being in a bio-available form. Directly composting sugars/starches as mentioned, will also pass through a 'alcohol' stage and into a 'vinegar' stage' also increasing acidity of the soil and will provide sugars/starches to the local soil microbes prior to that, whereas cider vinegar has already converted the starch into sugar, the sugar into alcohols/other volatiles and then into vinegar, which if added at that stage, doesn't really have any sugars for the bacteria to feed on.
One of the most important things seems to be: What kinds of microbes are you feeding? Some are beneficial, some are not. That also depends on the plant, stage of growth, soil ph etc.
I've used store bought 'organic compost' before, where all the plants grown in it experienced 'damping off' and had dramatically decreased growth rates and root development. Many were completely wiped out! And I suspect the water didn't help, as it's quite alkaline these days and contains alkali metals which can stunt growth and lead to plants being overcome by microbes, as the 'plant circulation' is essentially blocked. It seems that all countries are being sprayed with alkali metals (and other stuff) from geoengineering/weather modification/solar radiation management programs etc...whatever you want to call it - It's happening and it effects all life. The biggest challenge is overcoming that... it's not easy to clean the soils of alkali metal...even if you get close to neutral ph and metals precipitate (as solids), they may not be absorbed as quickly by plants, but it's still in the soil and is an absolute nightmare to remove.
And guess what... They developed/are developing GMO's such as 'aluminum tolerant sorghum' - which will survive and thrive in toxic conditions where many organic plants would wither away. The metals that those GMO plants absorb, are then transferred to whoever eats the plant, or are transferred into the soil in compost.
Long story short - they're deliberately manufacturing conditions that organic plants will greatly suffer from. Whilst releasing their preconceived GMO solution, to the problem they are creating... Most people don't/won't see the connection - but it's as simple as joining the dots... And still, it's just the tip of the iceberg as they say. We're gonna have to give it all we've got, if we and other life-forms are to make it through this loud/silent war. They're replacing us all with synthetics...
So it's a wise decision to look deeply into organic gardening among other things. And not a moment is to soon.
Best wishes
Kyle
@@Kyle-sg4rm thank you for being you!!!. Keep spitting the turth brother!
Thanks for your comment :) I'm glad someone read it - I hope it helps and/or encourages you.
And yes, I will keep spitting the turth!!!
@@Kyle-sg4rm Excellent comment Kyle, thank you. You managed to make your short paragraphs very information-dense and included explanations. If you have the time, you should definitely create your own RUclips channel. thanks again.
How do fungi produce minerals if there are none in the soil?
All we need to do is go into any forrest and copy what it does.
Not really but sure
Easier said than done, because there is a lot going on in forests.
What does that entail?
True i have done the same thing with my plants they are healthy ♥️♥️♥️
This the most bro science comment right here. Not that easy
Can nutrients really evaporate into the air? I thought it was just water
I like composting
Dear Jane,
do you have any trustworthy nos on Potential C storage in " average" soils under no till conditions?
Great video 👍
Very knowledgable - but I guess , due to pace and time, i need more condensed data - adding bacterium, building microbes, harmony in the soil without chems - good stuff , thank you
Electromagentism has nothing to do with taking up dangerous metals. It is chelation based off electronegativity and ion affinity of the humates.
Could you explain in simpler terms?
@@jenniferg6818 chelation is the binding of metals by negatively charged organic molecules (in this case organic matter in the form of humic acid). A common chelating agent is EDTA. Some chelating agents prefer different metals to others and so they hold on to some tighter and make them biologically unavailable in the soil. This is important for heavy metals like Lead and Arsenic which organic matter binds very tightly and makes unavailable to plants and animals. A chelating agent like EDTA tends to prefer iron or zinc.
@@jeremymcadams7743 very interesting. Thank you.
WTT: Compost for equal weights of Gold !!
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When should I apply my first foliar application of compost tea to my tomato seedlings?
Rob Markovitch once the flowers are open
Can you find a source for this quote? At 19:28 “If everybody who grazes were doing rotational grazing properly, it would take five years to get back to pre-industrial levels of carbon dioxide in the sky.”
I would suggest Allen Savory as a source for this.
I can send you a playlist that covers the real details of the matter
@@tylerblack3508 It sounds like something that Allen would say, thanks. Maybe from one of his interviews?
Yep she's a witch.....I mean composter. (cough*) 😂 Sorry just an observation. Not the first composter to give me that vibe. So full of knowledge. The passion is beautiful.
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I remember my grandmother burying fish parts from a cleaning in the alleys between the planted rows in her garden is that wrong? I have also seen many farmers burying their fish parts the same way?
I just learned a great deal on that using sardines covered with coffee grounds! It seems very beneficial.
It's the ideal thing! Bury any organic waste and it will be reused by living beings including the plants, the problem is that animals will be attracted to them too, like dogs and raccoons and they can make a mess.
@@fenrirgg Seems the key is to cover anything burried in used coffee grounds to deter scavengers.
Fish is great for using in the garden
is this a good idea 😉😉😉
any side effects
with 🐟 or 🦐
buried in your garden , or farm land
Any updates on the mystery rainwater spheres!?
Compost helps plants absorb vibrations from the cosmos. Right.
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thanks for sharing, silver fox
According to Forestry Protective Association guys, they have another name but senior moment, Douglas Fir is shallow rooted, which is why they can dry out and can burn so easy. So where does one find the truth?
Douglas Fir is pretty vunerable to drought like the forestry guys say, but when they have formed a mature canopy its very shaded, which greatly helps in keeping the water from evaporating
19:30 Wait, what?! What kind of grazing practice would get our atmosphere back to pre-industrial levels in 5 years? Does anyone have more information about what she's talking about?
Steve Slade Thanks. I had no idea rotational grazing had benefits beyond lower feed cost. This is the first I've heard anyone suggest meat production could have a negative carbon impact. I'm a bit shocked. Thank you for the reading list.
Check out Allan Savory. ruclips.net/video/6tY5Ik3zTo4/видео.html
With the billions of animals raised annually for meat consumption, rotational grazing ("Make the Desert Bloom" project) would be massive carbon sink. Is it feasible over the course of five years? Probably not. But the grasslands supported billions of migratory animals on all major continents and desertification has taken their place. I believe this method could be mimicked and take a big chunk out of emissions and economically, strengthen food production. With all of that foliage thriving with its carbon-capture along with composting on the spot, it's plausibility is far greater than reversing energy demands on fossil fuels.
I especially recommend Allan Savory's TED talk "How to green the world..." and Joel Salatin (grass farmer specializing in DAILY rotation of cattle!) for more info on these revolutionary grazing methods.
Jeff Flanigan
I love watching Salatin. He is hilarious in a very dry, non-challant way.
I think the roots were on the scene first and they said if we had a vascular body that could held attract more nutrients & reproduce we could live on forever. ..just my opinion though 🤭🤓
Talking abut the soil becoming aerobic? Does this mean then that we need to get a good microscope to watch this?
What about Nitrogen from the ambient air?
Chris Shepherd in deed, a lot of misconceptions by this lady
This is the reason ammonium nitrate is not necessary. The plant has all the nitrogen necessary from the air. Ammonium nitrate short circuits the ability of the plant to connect to the soil, this is what humic salts do. Rigorous scientific studies have show that 95% of a plants tissue comes directly from the atmosphere.
rudiolf steiner aka biodynamic agriculture us trapezoidel compost heaps with cold manures that are this shape, they are sealed with soil and allopwed to ferment without air for 2 years, apparently makes terrific compost...
What about alfalfa roots?
whats the exact name of the man she is mentioning at 1:08:13, Hendry Kasdroven or how? i d like to check his work out, any hints??
Martin Huber Hendrikus Schraven
No idea
@@hosoiarchives4858 your comment is useless
What was the name of the landscaper with the grass roots?
She seems to be in awe of the landscape guy who secured the mountain side with compost in 24 hrs🤣🤣🤣
Nitrate fertilizer vegetables have a salty tsate. Compost therefor improves the flavor of your crops.
Except that she said specifically California vegetables. You know, a state worh notorious for its naturally high Na content in the soil that the plants take up.
Wut tree has roots that go 2-300 feet into the soil I am an arborist never hered that 1
Fig tree can go about 400
Shepard’s trees, dig trees, California redwoods
@@TheSamba37 That's the right depth. Even the big valley oaks in central CA have the majority of their roots in the top 3 feet of soil. Trees will send out roots as much as 2 1/2 times their height but that's horizontally, not deep.
Yea, even coast redwoods typically only go about 6 ft deep. Most large trees have lateral roots, not deep tap roots.... Also, biodynamics is basically snake oil.
Sounds good! Where do I sign up?! 😍😡
I really enjoy this woman's teachings. I would like to go visit her teaching farm. Did she say Archimedian Sphere around 41:45? That's fascinating to see that under the microscope. Would love to send her something and have her test it to see outcome under the scope.
Whoa! 41:30 the rainwater with compost making the clear orb spheres around the other sphere particle. I always thought rainwater had some magical thing it did in the soil. Now I actually saw it.
If those are tree roots in the diagram, the largest one is totally wrong from my experience from ripping out trees. Roots grow lateral