Soil Probiotics and Prebiotics
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all heard of probiotics for our own bodies, but what about for our soil? Microbial inoculants have been a popular topic on the show. Today we’re with L.Be of Farm Based Foodie discussing inoculants and the idea of a soil “prebiotic” as well.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are here again with |
| 0:06.8 | El B, founder of Farm-based Foodie. That is a company that specializes in mobile organic ag solutions |
| 0:12.4 | and she's also got an upcoming podcast or by the time you |
| 0:16.2 | listen to this may already be out called Dirty Talk as well as a lot of educational resources |
| 0:20.8 | and we've been going deep on the education on this week I'm excited |
| 0:24.3 | about it today we're talking about something you guys may have heard of from just personal |
| 0:28.8 | nutrition probiotics and and also the idea of prebiotics but there's an application to soil and soil science as well, |
| 0:35.0 | which of course applies to your garden. |
| 0:37.0 | So, El B, what do I need to know about... |
| 0:41.0 | Well, actually, before that, what is the comparison to probiotics and prebiotics in our soil? |
| 0:47.0 | As compared to how we know it in our bodies? |
| 0:52.0 | Exactly, yeah. |
| 0:53.2 | Okay, cool. |
| 0:54.2 | So we know it from Kabutcha or maybe the Jamie Lee Curtis |
| 0:58.4 | Activity commercial where it talks about... |
| 1:01.6 | I think that was like so many people's introduction. And now like kibutcha is you know on |
| 1:08.4 | everybody's lips we take probiotic pills we've all heard about it and we |
| 1:12.3 | generally know that it's microbes it's the |
| 1:16.5 | good bacteria that we want right they do good things for us they are alive or at least they should be when you buy the quality ones right? |
| 1:26.4 | So we need them to come into our personal microbiome to help break down the food that we eat, right? |
| 1:35.0 | That's the whole point. |
| 1:37.0 | Prebiotics in terms of our body means that we have to eat foods continually that will feed those |
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