IPD - Regenerative Ag: Building the Life of Soil-2 Nov 7

The history of agricultural practices that has tilled and fertilized continued to degrade the life of the soil. At our current rate of degradation FAO makes a case that we have only 55 years of topsoil left. Regenerative agriculture takes on the challenge of restoring a healthy biome (biological complexity) at a rapid pace reducing, if not eliminating, the need for most costly inputs. With the help of a fungal dominant soil inoculant, soil health, crop yield, water percolation and retention, nutrient cycling, reduced rates of carbon respiration can regenerate soils immediately and reverse this long destructive history of our past management practices.

This workshop will demonstrate how to make the complex soil biome inoculant in your own backyard with your own resources for your garden or large-scale farming operation. This Johnson-Su methodology is created in an aerobic maturing process in a simple self-constructed bioreactor (a name utilized to represent a structure that permits the development of fungal dominant communities of microbes). When all of these natural microbes are available to the root when it emerges from the seed an immediate co-relationship is developed with the plant that will show immediate results in plant performance and in well managed soils it continues year after year. Regenerative agriculture is not only the new paradigm for building healthy soils and is being embraced by many large food companies and consumers, it rebuilds ecosystems creating a more resilient future.