No-Till and the Soil Food Web
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Teaming up with microbial life only works if you don’t destroy it after it’s present in your soil. Marco and I chat about the “no-till” movement as well as the soil food web.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's up? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up? |
| 0:05.0 | What's |
| 0:07.0 | What's |
| 0:08.0 | What's up? |
| 0:11.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We've been having a really |
| 0:18.5 | cool week so far with Marco Thomas, a natural farmer. |
| 0:22.9 | We've talked a lot about what natural farming is, |
| 0:25.0 | as well as the process of cultivating |
| 0:27.4 | indigenous microorganisms from IMO stage |
| 0:30.3 | one, two, three, and all the way up to four. |
| 0:33.0 | And at that point, really three or four, |
| 0:35.5 | you're kind of able to put it back into the soil, |
| 0:38.0 | and really start rehabilitating that soil. |
| 0:40.0 | And that's where you get into the idea of no-till and cultivating that soil food well, |
| 0:45.6 | which is kind of the purpose of this in the first place. So, Marco, I figured from the |
| 0:49.8 | perspective of natural farming, how does no-tail play into it? |
| 0:56.0 | I think, well, when you think of the soil food, |
| 1:00.0 | wherever, most of us now have a great grasp of what that means. |
| 1:05.0 | Even big agriculture is starting to understand that one. |
| 1:10.2 | But for me, I just like to look at it just like a spider's web. |
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