All About Earthworms
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Earthworms are some of the most functional and fascinating creatures on the planet, but many of us don’t know much about them. Learn how important they are for our soil and gardens in today’s show.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to an awesome episode here on the |
| 0:16.4 | Epic Gardening podcast. We're joined again by Eddie Garcia. Eddie has been living |
| 0:21.1 | off-grid since he was seven years old. He's a lead |
| 0:24.2 | designer of Living Earth Systems and the founder and executive director of |
| 0:28.1 | Regenerative Education Centers, which you can find at recenters.org. |
| 0:33.7 | So we've been talking Eddie about your living earth systems, |
| 0:37.4 | living aquaponics, as well as indigenous microorganisms, |
| 0:40.4 | and sort of what really that is, what are indigenous microorganisms. organisms and we talked a little bit about earthworms in yesterday's episode and I think |
| 0:50.5 | obviously we all know what they are everyone's heard of earthworms but from the |
| 0:55.0 | perspective that that you see things how do you see them and how do they play |
| 0:59.4 | into your overall I, philosophy of growing food and managing ecosystems? |
| 1:06.0 | Perhaps possibly how they have their name, Earthworms. I think that says a lot. |
| 1:11.0 | But if you want to look into an interesting concept for me that I think sort of helped me along the way was Darwin sort of a well-known guy back in the day. |
| 1:23.0 | He spent the last 15, 18, 20 years of his life |
| 1:28.0 | studying earthworms. |
| 1:30.0 | It's actually, and if you look, you can find some some material it's called Darwin's notes on |
| 1:33.9 | earthworms and there's some pretty amazing conclusions there about how much |
| 1:40.6 | earth they actually move and what goes on and what their role is as with |
| 1:46.0 | stewardship on this planet when it comes to soil and carbon in our atmosphere. |
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