The Symphony of the Soil with Dr. Elaine Ingham
Dr. Elaine shares why dirt is such a problem in the world today, and how humans can partner with microorganisms and plants to regenerate living soil. Instead of management practices that are dependent on increasingly expensive chemical inputs, we can utilize BioComplete™ Solutions and the power of ecological succession to restore biological functions in our landscapes.
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Dr. Elaine InghamFounder, Soil Food Web SchoolDr. Ingham has advanced our knowledge about the soil food web for over 4 decades. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering ordinary people to bring the soils in their community back to life.
Dr. Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on six continents. The courses offered by Dr. Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web School have been designed for people with no relevant experience – making them accessible to individuals who wish to retrain and to begin a meaningful and impactful career in an area that will help to secure the survival of humans and other species.
B.A., Biology and Chemistry, St. Olaf College
M.S., Microbiology, Texas A&M University
Ph.D., Microbiology, Colorado State University
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Welcome to the Soil Regen Summit 2023! We are thrilled to have you all join us today!
Travelers Rest, SC needs dirt too! 🙂
…soil 😉
Hello from Finland !
Loud and Clear Sammie – I’ve sent this link to several organic and conventional growers in NJ.
I’ll have some questions later for your SoilFoodweb lab analysis group.
Bill Sciarappa Rutgers
Great, email us at [email protected]. Looking forward to hearing more from you!
Hi Bill,
I am located in New Jersey and have be working with landscapers about the benefits of concentrating on the Soil Food Web. Please contact me at [email protected]
Thank you!! Great info
Hello from Alberta, Canada
Thanks. I love compost tea
Hi iluminated people! Fernando Beccon Nerva from Caxias do Sul RS Brazil. Excelente 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
How does a small home gardener accomplish this without becoming a scientist with a microscope 🤔
You could have a Certified Lab Technician do some testing for you. You can find them on the SFW School website under consultants
hi i am in the uk and i have a worm farm for growing food and i am happy to say that organic farming is the way forward if any one is interested in buying worm casting pls call send me an email on [email protected]
also elaine ingrham is a legend one of the inspirations that got me into organic farming and wormery
or [email protected]
I took several of her classes about 20 years ago and they changed my entire view of how to grow healthy plants.
Greetings from Brazil!
Thank you for inviting us
Hello from Durham, NC! LOYAL TO MY SOIL
Thank you for this, it was super interesting and informative.
whoop whoop so excited thanks a lot ! much love from austin
Greetings from France 🙂
🌞 good morning, friends. 🍉🍊🍒
Greeting from Detroit Michigan
Hey neighbor! Me too
hello from canada!
Greetings from the tropical rainforest of Trinidad and Tobago!
Delighted to participate!
Why didn’t the presentation start? Is it actually starting at 12:00 PM eastern time and things got screwed up due to the Daylight Savings Time change?
Bill, you need to press the play button.
Never mind, I was expecting a different reaction. Sorry!
Did it play for you?
Hey from Canada! 🇨🇦
Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge
thank you so much for this conference.
can we ask questions here?
If you have any questions that come up during Dr. Elaine’s talk, feel free to enter it here, and we will add it to the queue for the Meet and Greet with Dr. Elaine at 12:10 PM Pacific Time today.
Thank you for this Conference. Greetings from Uganda.
Greetings from Chiapas!
Hi thank you for this information. Listening from Los Angeles
Hello from Sacramento, Ca
Let’s go, Sactown!
thank you for the opportunity to join
Hello from East Tennessee!
Sorry, but who has a microscope or a lab to hand?! Without those, how to establish the population of the soil?
I’ve been able to get pretty good resolution with phone camera microscopes. Haven’t tested it to this degree, but now I will.
You could have a Certified Lab Technician do some testing for you. You can find them on the SFW School website under consultants
Thanks for all the info. Much love and God Bless grom Bradenton, Florida
Good day from Colombia. Interesting
Excellent Event!
Hello from Namibia!
So happy to be here. Hello from Bakersfield, CA. <3
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Here in Brazil it is known that pineapple grows well at recently deforested soil, even without fertilizer. And bromeliaceae in general grows well over threes branches.
So, is it possible to say that pineapple plant grows better at very high Fungi/Bacteria ratio?
I will add your question to the question queue for Dr. Elaine’s Meet & Greet that will take place at 12:10PM PT today. If you can’t join, watch the replay.
Some weeds are beneficial
Hello from Houston!
May I have the replay for 3/14?
Thanks.
This was so so good! I want more. I’ve been telling my friends, facebook groups, all kinds of people. I’m so excited about this and already enjoying it so much. Thank you for a wonderful presentation. I would love to learn more about microscopy since I do my own goat fecal. I’d love to learn how to do my soils too.
that was great thank you. I have just bought a field in scotland, previosly used for a monocrop of wheat. I want to re generate the soil and in one third ofhte field plant a woodland.
Great session, thank you!! From Virginia
Very good lecture and well explained. I know very little about soil but I’ve come away with a desire to learn more. Thank you Dr Ingram.
Thank you for the informative session! I look forward to applying these lessons in my school garden programs and sharing with my community. Thank you!
Brilliant, Loved it.
Hello from Wexford Ireland
Hello from sunny Florida & thank you for this wealth of information at the 2023 SRS!
Incredibly informative and easy to understand. Thank you, Dr. Elaine!!
Is it possible to drastically reduce the negative effects caused by fusarium infection just by enhancing the microorganism competition?
Amazing presentation! Thank you so much!
Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago. Dr Elaine Ingham is a great communicator!
Thank you for this invaluable resource.
Thank you, that was very informative. Learned a lot of new things…think I am going to need a microscope someday.
fascinating information…I’m so grateful you did this I have been wanting to take your course for ages. Thank you thank you
A very helpful presentation, clear and simple language to describe a complex situation. Thank you for highlighting the importance of using locally made compost.
I intend to be a soil supplier.
Oklahoma
Hello Dr. Elaine, Could you please explain the difference between Regenerative Agriculture, Circular Agriculture, and Natural farming. Thanks, Ishita Devgan, Bangalore India
Hi from Gaspé, Québec, Canada!
Thank you so much for offering this!!
Thank you Dr Elaine for this fine approach.
what about weeds?
Hi Elaine: we are vendors at a farmer’s market and grow pesticide free and inorganic fertilizer free. We have livestock and utilize composted manure. One thing that I am noticing in the past couple of years is that our customers are more and more commenting on the flavour of our produce.
Thank you so much for this opportunity. My eyes are wide open, and I am looking forward to learning much more on soil health and regeneration.
I love Elaine!
Thanks Elaine. From Ontario
Hi Myles, I’m in Ontario too. Where do we get local compost? I don’t the municipal offered stuff, it may have bad stuff in it like walnut leaves so nothing grows. Willing to drive a distance from Golden Horseshoe! She did say local tho….
We are starting transition of 600 acre farm in southern Indiana to compost extract this year. Some of our ground is in the river bottoms and floods during the winter spring (and sometimes during the crop season). Accordingly, we need cover crops that can withstand flooding. As agriculture transitions to using soil-friendly practices (hopefully), there will be a lot of farmers with this same need. Are there any cover crops that will withstand flooding? Any other tips for managing river bottom ground to promote great soil?
Dr. Elaine, You hit it out of the park! This was an EXCELLENT presentation. Thank you!
Amazing lecture!
Thank you for the excellent presentation.
Right on! Thanks for kicking off the Summit with a solid overview on the Soil Food Web.
Amazing! I learned so much!
Where do I get local compost? I have searched nurseries …looks mostly like dirt. Other than grocery store bags that come from far away, there’s really nothing that looks good. How? Where?
Super! Elaine.
What a great video!! Thank for all the information!
This is so enriching, so grateful for the information shared. Many many thanks Dr. Ingham
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Thank you so much. Been following your work along with Stamets and Matt Powers. Thank you so much for all your hard work
I recently visited Disney World with family and got permission from both Animal Kingdom and Epcot to collect plant debri and mushroom mycellium to bring home, study and propogate to mix with my compost for more bio diversity as well. Right now I am rinsing in clean water to mix the liquid with Mollasses to promote the IMO from the materials for study as well. I love traveling.
Any advice when collecting like this to be able to bring out the best stacking functions in research and propogation for study?