The most essential question for farmers and gardeners to ask about their soil is, “Is it alive?” We will explore the diverse microorganism communities present in soil and why it is so important to keep them thriving and in balance. Meredith Leigh will explain the importance of a dynamic soil food web. View multiple different local participant samples and apply that information on your own farm or garden to build your own soil enriching strategies.
VIDEO: Assessing Soil Health Using a Microscope with Meredith Leigh Part 2
The most essential question for farmers and gardeners to ask about their soil is, “Is it alive?” We will explore the diverse microorganism communities present in soil and why it is so important to keep them thriving and in balance. Meredith Leigh will explain the importance of a dynamic soil food web. View multiple different local participant samples and apply that information on your own farm or garden to build your own soil enriching strategies.
Nice continuation. Good explanations. Could you identify the microscope(s) being used?
Organic Flakes – A Hidden Place full of life
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQySHroJXCPBd2jp4SASXy8G049-su8KYo3TD2-INar06iAVafx4bQ4Lgf5ADzIHzLJv1Rw1EoYRqTo/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g32f047691e_0_0
Humus Research https://sites.google.com/site/humusresearch/home/soil
Edaphon http://edaphon.org/
This is so good. I was not sure if I should invest in a microscope and some of Elaines courses. I definitely will be investing in both soon. Thank you so much for this free info, I cant wait for part 3. so excited. 😀
The biological examination of the soil refers to a soil sample containing all life in a living state.
All it takes is a simple suspension of a small sample with water incubating for 12-36 hours at room temperture.
During this time, everything develops as far that it can be identified.
In order to get a concept of the edaphic activity, one must be able to look into the life processes of the symbioses and biocenoses.
Therefore the natural state of the soil must be preserved as much as possible.
Don't shake the sample – unless you are only interested in the extraction of individual microorganism and not there environment in which they live with other microorganisms, which is essential to the understanding of the microbial life in the soil.
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An essential advice from Raoul Francé and Annie Francé-Harrar
http://france-harrar.de/
"Depending on how your face is built" LOL I like her!
Elaine is awesome and full of knowledge. I've listened to all her YouTube's and would like to invest in her courses one day. Already have the specified microscope which greatly helps identification the soil life.
THis girl is an awesome teacher and these students just suck.
I believe in your sample you are looking at currents in the water caused by some air movement surrounding the microscope slide. Is there a circulating fan in the ceiling for example blowing air down into the vicinity of the microscope? I've observed this phenomena myself just from gentle breathing onto the microscope stage , even using a coverglass. The air around the scope should basically be as still as possible.
I would like to send you a sample of my worm castings (Eisenia Fetida, AKA: Red Wrigglers) to check out. I put a lot of time and effort into caring for my Vermi-Culture. I feed them a very diverse, and very high quality diet of wholesome organic inputs. I feed them very specific ingredients in the hopes that it produces a balanced spectrum of fungal and bacterial biology. I don't own or have access to a microscope (although I plan on getting one) so I haven't been able to check the biology in my vermicompost, however, I have a feeling that its full of probiotic life. If you're interested, let me know how to get a sample out to you. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at the biology present in my worm castings, not to mention I would love to know myself.
The microscope camera you are using is pretty rough. I wonder if it would have looked better through the trinocular.
So knowledgeable but hyper annoying with the uptalk and voice graveling. This woman’s gonna lose her voice box if she keeps this up. Have a look at something like the Voice book on Amazon-there’s ways used by public speakers, singers etc to avoid these issues.
If you fill it up to 1ml with soil and then fill it up to 5ml with water, wouldn‘t that be a 1:4 ratio? 1 part soil, 4 parts water. She said 1:5. Not a huge deal but i wonder what is right.
I want to get a microscope what would you recommend? This video is so awesome I wish I could hang out
What's so bad about anaerobic organisms? KNF and JADAM gardening encourage them quite a bit and people seem to have really good vegetable garden results. They are constantly dumping buckets of them into the soil.