How to Culture IMOs from a Natural Environment

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🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

IMOs are indigenous microorganisms that contribute to the overall ecosystem within your garden and landscape. Eddy Garcia explains the different types and how to cultivate them at home.

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Eddy Garcia has been living off-grid since he was 7 years old. He’s the lead designer of Living Earth Systems, and the Founder and Executive Director of Regenerative Education Centers.

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone?
0:04.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the at the gardening podcast. We are
0:16.8	joined again by Eddie Garcia. Eddie is the lead designer of Living Earth
0:21.3	Systems. He's also the founder and executive director of
0:24.8	Regenerative Education Centers which you can find at re-centers.org. So yesterday we
0:31.4	talked about living aquaponics or living earth systems as you call
0:36.2	them Eddie and today we're talking about something a little bit different that I think many
0:41.2	people may not know a whole lot about it.
0:43.6	It's how to culture IMOs and I think the first thing that we should talk about of
0:47.2	course is what does that acronym actually stand for?
0:50.1	What is an IMO?
0:52.3	An IMO in this instance the way we're talking about it,
0:56.1	is referred to as an indigenous microorganism.
1:00.0	What is an indigenous microorganism? In your and aloha everybody happy to be here glad I can share this and be able to touch with you guys on some cool topics?
1:10.8	An indigenous IMO is whatever is, and we say and we're careful with the word
1:16.3	indigenous. A lot of the time indigenous means or something like endemic that it was
1:21.3	born to that place.
1:23.0	endemic means it's found nowhere else, but indigenous means it's like kind of from there.
1:27.8	We're not always talking about that.
1:29.5	What we mean by indigenous, in some cases, we indigenous to the soil rather than the air.
1:36.7	Some things have localized all over the world.
1:39.6	They're in all the soil on all of the areas like earthworms for instance.
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