How to Build Great Soil - A Soil Science Masterclass with Dr. Elaine Ingham (Part 1 of 4)

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  • čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
  • Dr. Elaine Ingham presents her soil science for beginners masterclass. She covers what the soil food web is, how plants benefit from a healthy soil food web, and how you can change the food web in the soil for your benefit.
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  • @markharris5544
    @markharris5544 Před 2 lety +741

    I took a week long seminar with her about 10 years ago. Every lecture was as mind blowing as this one. The highlight of the seminar, however, was using the microscopes we were required to have, and seeing those fascinating creatures she talks about. This video shows that today she is even sharper and more humorous than she was ten years ago. My suspicion is that she drinks compost tea.

  • @saltriverorchards4190
    @saltriverorchards4190 Před 2 lety +164

    This is the best thing about CZcams. Access to information like this before CZcams was quite a bit harder than it is now.

    • @mauriciocardona2853
      @mauriciocardona2853 Před 2 lety +11

      that is absolutely true. Learn as much as you can now, before they notice this is too dangerous for the system to work and censorchip goes ballistic.

    • @ichillingi
      @ichillingi Před 2 měsíci +2

      I am currently a university student and I tell myself this everyday: I can literally learn anything because I have the internet. I love this content and can't wait to continue expanding my knowledge! I wish the best to you all!

    • @ScottMason-ss8ww
      @ScottMason-ss8ww Před měsícem

      ​@@ichillingiwe still have books too, remember?

  • @9spiderlegs
    @9spiderlegs Před 2 lety +196

    I am a science educator and I aspire to be as engaging as Dr. Ingram. I came here to learn how to improve my garden, and I'm leaving inspired to be a better teacher to my students

    • @terrafarmer48
      @terrafarmer48 Před rokem

      💚💚💚

    • @eggspanda2475
      @eggspanda2475 Před rokem +4

      I think passion is essential .

    • @Infiniti25
      @Infiniti25 Před 3 měsíci

      How did you improve your garden so far?

    • @DaRealBigAl
      @DaRealBigAl Před 2 měsíci

      This is something you would’ve had to hear about from a friend or on the radio, then have to drive 2-4 hours just to watch it in person with a notepad and paper 📝

  • @andrewbaillie6291
    @andrewbaillie6291 Před 29 dny +3

    This woman is a Saint!

  • @chrisgewirtz5875
    @chrisgewirtz5875 Před 2 lety +17

    She makes soil sound like a rock concert. So cool!

  • @jthepickle7
    @jthepickle7 Před 2 lety +62

    When you think you're versed in a subject, like gardening - at it for 56
    years - and along comes Elaine Ingham informing you that you must live a
    whole nother life to catch up.
    Years ago she taught me to feed my 'soil pets' instead of feeding my plants.

    • @GGIC.
      @GGIC. Před 2 lety

      How do we feed them?

    • @jthepickle7
      @jthepickle7 Před 2 lety +11

      @@GGIC. Blood meal, bone meal ,fish emulsion, compost, leaf mold, rock dust, companion planting...

  • @tenpennyguy
    @tenpennyguy Před 2 lety +74

    I just became the custodian of a large forested lot that was last logged in about 1949. This will help me do right by it, learning from the ground up.

    • @yourfriendwill
      @yourfriendwill Před 2 lety +3

      wow, that sounds like an incredible opportunity! may I ask where this is? sounds fascinating.

    • @coder8i
      @coder8i Před rokem

      Would love to hear more, send updates of what you discover.

    • @joyceherreid7586
      @joyceherreid7586 Před rokem

      Thank you!

    • @beroudp
      @beroudp Před 3 měsíci

      The Key word seams to be diversity.

    • @jamesd1672
      @jamesd1672 Před 2 měsíci

      How did you do that?

  • @benabel
    @benabel Před 2 lety +138

    i'm just getting into gardening and composting. really interesting to think of it as "tending to life". seeing my compost pile steam for the first time, seeing bugs and flies, and even little mammalian critters scurrying around it has been encouraging :)

    • @zanewalsh1812
      @zanewalsh1812 Před 2 lety +2

      Brother!
      I've worked about 10 piles of hot compost this season...
      🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
      I'm a little excited to meet you 🌍🌎🌏🕊️
      Be well brother Ben 🙏🏼✨

    • @jimmyrichardson67
      @jimmyrichardson67 Před 2 lety +6

      I love the whole process

    • @littlefurrow2437
      @littlefurrow2437 Před 3 měsíci

      Long live life!

  • @lifeisgood070
    @lifeisgood070 Před 2 lety +15

    This is what a good teacher looks like holy smokes; incredibly articulate

  • @craigtalbot607
    @craigtalbot607 Před 2 lety +21

    I’ve been composting for 20 years. I have no idea what bacteria or fungi we’re growing, but it turns our adobe soil into something that grows plants! 👍❤️👍

  • @spoilertree7626
    @spoilertree7626 Před 2 lety +65

    Reading information on Dr. Ingham's ideas, or hearing them distilled by other commentators, you forget what a clear and compelling speaker she is. How great would it be to attend her classes!

    • @TNT34714
      @TNT34714 Před 2 lety +4

      It is definitely worth it! www.soilfoodweb.com

  • @allonesame6467
    @allonesame6467 Před 2 lety +38

    I bought and read their book, "Teaming with Microbes". Thank you for posting Dr. Elaine's talk. Blessings Abound

  • @mikestaub
    @mikestaub Před 2 měsíci +3

    This is a true masterclass with a world-class professor.

  • @tsant6591
    @tsant6591 Před 2 lety +64

    She's great at putting things in perspective. It's really very basic, and about understanding the fundamentals. So many people over complicate things, that it becomes confusing for new farmers.

  • @frankligas2249
    @frankligas2249 Před 2 lety +18

    Thanks for the video. Excelent work. This is just an FYI, my friend Crafton is a kindred spirit of yours. He was asked if we had to evacuate Earth, and go live on Mars, never to return. And you were only allowed to bring one item that would fit in a box 12 inches square, what would you bring? He answered without a second thought, "A box of the richest, microbe infested, gorgeous topsoil from my garden." Everyone one else shut up, because there just wasn't a better answer than that.

  • @DetransAllianceCanada
    @DetransAllianceCanada Před 2 lety +13

    You speak the language of science so even a truck driver can understand!

  • @SJ-um2ym
    @SJ-um2ym Před 20 dny

    She explains this so succinctly. Halfway through and I really want to buy this woman a beer.

  • @mikaila2621
    @mikaila2621 Před 21 dnem +1

    SUCH an interesting lecture. I’m so blessed to have access to such information. I’m working on rebuilding my soil for my vegetable garden. It’s total dead soil so it’ll take some time.

  • @JR-HeavenonEarth
    @JR-HeavenonEarth Před 2 lety +11

    I absolutley LOVE Dr Elaine Ingham...so refreshing to hear her! Dirts worst enemy and soils best friend!

  • @andrewbaillie6291
    @andrewbaillie6291 Před 29 dny +1

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are such a good teacher.

  • @alanm87
    @alanm87 Před 2 lety +27

    Bless this human for saving the world with knowledge.

  • @gurogreen
    @gurogreen Před 2 lety +29

    This is such essential information… I’m applying it since 2 years in my little garden seeing beautiful results and can only imagine what would happen if the whole world of agriculture would get these fundamental insights and build systems of food production upon that understanding … one giant step toward paradise, abundance, freedom. Nurturing life’s capacity to take care of itself. Understanding life deeper and deeper and not interfering where it knows how to manage itself!! This topic is just tremendously important to understand and share the knowledge. I’m deeply grateful to this amazing woman who is paving the way for a new and better world with better food for people and healthy ecosystems for all life including humans ❤️ I pray this knowledge will become embedded in our agricultural systems 🙏🏻 thank you Elaine Ingram and all those seeking to live sustainably ❤️

    • @patriotgirl1american854
      @patriotgirl1american854 Před 2 lety +1

      Don’t tell Bill Gates!

    • @mauriciocardona2853
      @mauriciocardona2853 Před 2 lety

      I do not think it will be embedded in our agricultural systems. It is not profitable. abundance is the worst thing that could happen to capitalism. Scarcity is necessary for something to be profitable. killing the soil is a strategy, not a mistake.

  • @Big-ef5ru
    @Big-ef5ru Před 2 lety +9

    Massive upload Diego, thanks for doing it, will watch them this weekend

  • @loridorchak76
    @loridorchak76 Před 2 lety +2

    Wow! Thanks for posting this! just awesome- so helpful!

  • @pyrorc
    @pyrorc Před 2 lety +12

    I think what people really need to take from this is that this compost is the most important tool in your growing tool shed

    • @pyrorc
      @pyrorc Před 2 lety +5

      I think there's something that people need to do is take this information into their hands
      start to work systems such as Terra Preta, in order for the clay pottery to provide oxygen in the biochar to work holding nutrients to be charged. and for the organisms to be able to mine from the clay.
      This full living system needs to be made correctly.

    • @coder8i
      @coder8i Před rokem

      And hydrology

  • @leehylton687
    @leehylton687 Před 2 lety +1

    I happened upon this by chance. It's fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

  • @1timbarrett
    @1timbarrett Před 2 měsíci +1

    I wish Dr Ingram had been my Life Science teacher back in the 70s! 😘

  • @nikhilkothurkar
    @nikhilkothurkar Před 2 lety +2

    This is simply brilliant!

  • @wesbaumguardner8829
    @wesbaumguardner8829 Před 2 lety +4

    Excellent lecture. Thanks, Diego!

  • @CMarie2415
    @CMarie2415 Před 2 lety +2

    Wow fantastic, and aligns with what I've noticed in my garden. Need to find more from her.

  • @ilDreadmakermichele
    @ilDreadmakermichele Před 2 lety +4

    amazing, i cant wait to see it all

  • @Santreezy
    @Santreezy Před 2 lety +3

    Been watching for about 5 minutes…. GREAT info. Taking notes!

  • @mrstevens445
    @mrstevens445 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow! This is eye opening. Thank you for the upload.

  • @IvyandCJsGarden
    @IvyandCJsGarden Před 2 lety +2

    So glad i stumbled upon this! 🤯🤯

  • @alisonburgess345
    @alisonburgess345 Před 2 lety +3

    Fantastic lecture... thanks everybody.

  • @victorb5
    @victorb5 Před rokem

    Thank you so much for the upload!

  • @Juiciverse
    @Juiciverse Před rokem

    loved every second of this

  • @gmo3686
    @gmo3686 Před 6 měsíci

    This is absolutely fascinating

  • @pav8n
    @pav8n Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks for this video

  • @SpecialSoldier109
    @SpecialSoldier109 Před 2 lety +4

    What an excellent teacher.

  • @sachitradw
    @sachitradw Před rokem

    What a passionate teacher!

  • @happinessyogateacher
    @happinessyogateacher Před 2 lety +2

    Such and interesting speaker and beyond brilliant!

  • @imustbegettinolder4434
    @imustbegettinolder4434 Před 2 lety +2

    Very very interesting. Thank you.

  • @a.p1675
    @a.p1675 Před 8 měsíci

    Wow! She is wonderful!

  • @Jeffreydboyes
    @Jeffreydboyes Před rokem +4

    Sorry I’m late. A huge thank you for your fantastic analysis. And, in a way that, even though i thought I knew what I was doing, i still learned a lot! I appreciate your great work. Thank you!

  • @mab5020
    @mab5020 Před rokem

    THANK YOU! You already know, it was exactly what I needed to hear. Not only informative but entertaining, too! I 💗your style😎 I will spread this faster than pertussis!👩‍🌾

  • @mclee5081
    @mclee5081 Před rokem

    Dr. Elaine. you are great teacher. thanks!

  • @Schoenmann3
    @Schoenmann3 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent lecture Dr. Elaine Ingham

  • @solidmercury4585
    @solidmercury4585 Před 3 měsíci

    I am happy I stumbled upon this

  • @jasminebambury5841
    @jasminebambury5841 Před měsícem

    Just enjoyed listening. What a great teacher♡

  • @JohnHenrySheridan
    @JohnHenrySheridan Před rokem

    Awesome info thank you!

  • @franksfamily
    @franksfamily Před 2 lety

    Learning tons, thanks

  • @MissyRoselle
    @MissyRoselle Před 7 měsíci

    Wow, she's amazing, I loved listening to her!

  • @kdm1234gmail
    @kdm1234gmail Před rokem +8

    wow this is really helpful to learn. I've actually been doing this not knowing what I was doing. So its helpful to know what I am doing now. The soil here has improved so much in the past few years. As I have let nature restore its systems with me there to help get it what it needs and help the processes along.

  • @fortunewrangler8524
    @fortunewrangler8524 Před 2 měsíci

    Brilliant!!

  • @LaurelsChannel
    @LaurelsChannel Před 4 měsíci

    That is a truly excellent speaker. I learned a lot and was highly entertained at the same time. Glad I found this video series.

  • @quique913
    @quique913 Před 2 lety +6

    Thank you very much Dr. Elaine Ingham for sharing your knowledge with us on this media. Greetings from a cacao grower from Queensland. Thanks again

  • @catemaccoll9626
    @catemaccoll9626 Před 2 lety +2

    Honestly, the david Attenborough impression? 😍 I'm here to learn seriously about soil, but what a treat that was.

  • @chhavindersingh9343
    @chhavindersingh9343 Před rokem

    What an amazing speaker!

  • @narendrajoshi790
    @narendrajoshi790 Před 3 měsíci

    Great understanding of the subject, 🙏🙏🙏
    Clarity of thought
    Great Teacher

  • @ThePlantasticNerd
    @ThePlantasticNerd Před 2 lety +2

    Who needs universities, I just need this woman in my life!

  • @demacherius1
    @demacherius1 Před 2 lety +2

    A verry informative video.
    She is awesome at making a topic really interresting

  • @kristenlilkas7886
    @kristenlilkas7886 Před rokem +2

    Going to need to watch each of these twice to make sure my notes are accurate 😊 thank you for making this available to us

  • @dillyDragon
    @dillyDragon Před 4 měsíci

    Seems like a fun class to take, I enjoyed the teaching style.🎉

  • @emresipahi8392
    @emresipahi8392 Před rokem

    thank you its an amazing class

  • @reymondatienza8427
    @reymondatienza8427 Před 2 lety +8

    Wow. Thanks, Dr. Elaine! I don't like biology but I understood how to bring life to my (backyard) soil; thanks to your very easy explanation. This would really help me build a sustainable backyard vegetable. I rarely watch 30+ mins videos but this seems like it just passed by! Thanks again for the knowledge. NOW I AM INFECTED! Haha!

  • @jamesraphael8473
    @jamesraphael8473 Před rokem

    Wow wow wow. This woman is a blessing!

  • @tommysmith5082
    @tommysmith5082 Před rokem

    Thanks. Very informative.

  • @FraserValleyRoseFarm
    @FraserValleyRoseFarm Před 2 lety +70

    Wow! Thanks for the in-depth content. Great to hear from someone so knowledgeable.

  • @davidscurlock2150
    @davidscurlock2150 Před rokem

    Dr Elaine thank you for your teachings....this is bipartisan and very informative and inspired me to create my own garden....it is going well...especially my medical cannabis

  • @mikewright3029
    @mikewright3029 Před 2 lety

    Great stuff! Thank you! :D

  • @KimberlyBarkdoll
    @KimberlyBarkdoll Před 2 lety

    Yassss!!!! Finally, someone says it! This is what we need! Blass you for posting this!

  • @aftech7268
    @aftech7268 Před 3 měsíci

    Great info very educational

  • @christopherbocanegra4047

    Straight 🔥 thank you ma’am

  • @nadinegaudet1870
    @nadinegaudet1870 Před 2 lety +3

    I need to learn more from this woman, she explains it in a way I am able to understand!!!
    Wow shes amazing.

  • @captainhitz
    @captainhitz Před 10 měsíci

    Excellent lecture.

  • @richardalonzo4717
    @richardalonzo4717 Před rokem

    This is genius. I have been looking for this information for thirty years.

  • @rainwaterrefugehomestead2267

    Awesome video!!

  • @kristentaylor7051
    @kristentaylor7051 Před 2 lety +8

    This was a gift to me, thank you. I will share it with the world

  • @dubsbarry9963
    @dubsbarry9963 Před rokem +2

    Really like this lady's style and agree 100% with her conclusions.

  • @jackofalltrades3378
    @jackofalltrades3378 Před 3 měsíci

    Good presentation.

  • @richstone2627
    @richstone2627 Před 2 lety +4

    Good stuff mang.

  • @donaldroberts5338
    @donaldroberts5338 Před 11 měsíci

    Great teacher am hooked !!!

  • @doraw7766
    @doraw7766 Před rokem

    Thank you.

  • @Wherstead
    @Wherstead Před 2 lety +3

    I couldn't wait to return to my property to see it in a different way. I have left it for more than 30 years without any additions and the soil is spongy and healthy.

  • @oh_la_la
    @oh_la_la Před 3 měsíci

    It's interesting to learn how to maintain the soil good to plant on and preserve the bacteria...Thanks .

  • @caesarskiba9008
    @caesarskiba9008 Před 2 lety

    amazing.

  • @rymvgs
    @rymvgs Před 2 lety

    Thanks doc 🙏

  • @krzysztofflis1847
    @krzysztofflis1847 Před 6 měsíci

    ❤ thank you

  • @vhmccray3705
    @vhmccray3705 Před měsícem

    Thank you Dr. Ingham! That was fantastic and very much more entertaining than I thought from the opening picture. I have tried for years to wrap my head around the correlation between things like nutrient density, PH, beneficial biomass, & organism relationships. There's a lot of reading out there from some people that (just like in all industries) shouldn't be talking! But listening to this lecture put so much into prospective and gave me a clearer picture. I almost had a stroke trying to absorb it all! But it was worth it. Now I gotta go get me a microscope!

  • @AnthonyWhitewwfilms
    @AnthonyWhitewwfilms Před 2 lety +1

    Elaine is awesome 🤘

  • @linkindescription1
    @linkindescription1 Před 2 měsíci

    A Great Lecture to tell the importance of Microorganisms balance in our soil in order to improve our farming. Love from Agronomist. Very Helpful ❤

  • @cannafarmer
    @cannafarmer Před 6 měsíci

    I could listen to her all day, I relisten occasionally to reinforce

  • @jameswaterhouse-brown6646

    Awesome

  • @Silvertestrun
    @Silvertestrun Před rokem +1

    Ty

  • @hanswurst1125
    @hanswurst1125 Před 3 měsíci

    thx you for your knowledge, i enjoy it.

  • @frithfiver
    @frithfiver Před rokem +1

    This woman is incredible!! How inspiring

  • @jsl3261961
    @jsl3261961 Před 2 lety

    The Best!

  • @ERMAV
    @ERMAV Před 2 lety

    Wow she is fantastic

  • @gillsmoke
    @gillsmoke Před 2 lety +3

    So far all I got was add compost to help bring back life balance to my soil. Check working on that.